Alter vs. Correct — What's the Difference?

Change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way

To make or put right

To change or make different; modify

To remove the errors or mistakes from

To adjust (a garment) for a better fit.

To indicate or mark the errors in

To castrate or spay (an animal, such as a cat or a dog).

To speak to or communicate with (someone) in order to point out a mistake or error.

To change or become different.

To scold or punish so as to improve or reform.

(transitive) To change the form or structure of.

To remedy or counteract (a defect, for example)

(intransitive) To become different.

To adjust so as to meet a required standard or condition

(transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.

To make corrections.

(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).

To make adjustments; compensate

(transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.

Free from error or fault; true or accurate.

An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder); a member of a system.

Conforming to standards; proper

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

Free from error; true; accurate.

To agitate; to affect mentally.

With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

To geld.

Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

A correct response.

Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation;

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence;

To grade (examination papers).

Make an alteration to;

(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.

Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

Remove the ovaries of;

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; - said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Make right or correct;

Make reparations or amends for;

Censure severely;

Adjust or make up for;

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

Go down in value;

Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;

Treat a defect;

Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;

Socially right or correct;

In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

Correct in opinion or judgment;