correct
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
correct/kəˈrekt/
▶adjective
- 1 free from error; true or right.
- 2 conforming to accepted social standards.
■ conforming to a particular political or ideological orthodoxy: environmentally correct.
■ mark the errors in (a text).
■ adjust (a numerical result or reading) to allow for departure from standard conditions.
– derivatives
correctable adjective,
correctly adverb,
correctness noun,
corrector noun.
correctable adjective,
correctly adverb,
correctness noun,
corrector noun.
– origin ME (as v.; the adj. is via Fr.): from L. correct-, corrigere, ‘make straight, amend’, from cor- ‘together’ + regere ‘guide’.
'correct' also found in these Oxford entries:
accept
- accurate
- adjust
- adverse
- align
- as
- astray
- balance
- bated
- beg
- benefit
- blazon
- box
- candelabrum
- certain
- checksum
- colourable
- come
- comme il faut
- comparable
- conformal
- contact lens
- contribute
- corrective
- corrigendum
- corrigible
- cue
- different
- diffuse
- dot
- drill
- either
- emend
- entasis
- equalize
- escort
- ethical
- exact
- fast
- fit
- form
- gene therapy
- glasses
- going
- good
- grammar
- guess
- harass
- hardly
