Correct vs. Correctly

Correctadjective

Free from error; true; accurate.

Correctlyadverb

In a correct manner.

Correctadjective

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

Correctlyadverb

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

Correctverb

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

‘The navigator corrected the course of the ship.’;

Correctlyadverb

in a correct manner;

‘he guessed right’;

Correctverb

To grade (examination papers).

Correctverb

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

‘It's rude to correct your parents.’;

Correctverb

(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

Correctadjective

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.

‘Always use the most correct editions.’;

Correctverb

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

‘This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.’;

Correctverb

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).

Correctverb

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.

‘My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me.’;

Correctverb

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.

Correctverb

make right or correct;

‘Correct the mistakes’; ‘rectify the calculation’;

Correctverb

make reparations or amends for;

‘right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust’;

Correctverb

censure severely;

‘She chastised him for his insensitive remarks’;

Correctverb

adjust or make up for;

‘engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance’;

Correctverb

punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

‘The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently’;

Correctverb

go down in value;

‘the stock market corrected’; ‘prices slumped’;

Correctverb

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

‘Adjust the clock, please’; ‘correct the alignment of the front wheels’;

Correctverb

treat a defect;

‘The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia’;

Correctadjective

free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;

‘the correct answer’; ‘the correct version’; ‘the right answer’; ‘took the right road’; ‘the right decision’;

Correctadjective

socially right or correct;

‘it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye’; ‘correct behavior’;

Correctadjective

in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

‘what's the right word for this?’; ‘the right way to open oysters’;

Correctadjective

correct in opinion or judgment;

‘time proved him right’;