Correct vs. Exact

Correctadjective

Free from error; true; accurate.

Exactadjective

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

‘The clock keeps exact time.’; ‘He paid the exact debt.’; ‘an exact copy of a letter’; ‘exact accounts’;

Correctadjective

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

Exactadjective

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

‘a man exact in observing an appointment’; ‘In my doings I was exact.’;

Correctverb

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

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

Exactadjective

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Correctverb

To grade (examination papers).

Exactadjective

Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

Correctverb

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

‘It's rude to correct your parents.’;

Exactverb

(transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperative way.

‘to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone.’;

Correctverb

(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

Exactverb

(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.

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.’;

Exactverb

(transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.

‘to exact revenge on someone.’;

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.’;

Exactadverb

exactly

‘She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!’;

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).

Exactadjective

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

‘I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.’;

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.’;

Exactadjective

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

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.

Exactadjective

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

‘An exact command,Larded with many several sorts of reason.’;

Correctverb

make right or correct;

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

Exactverb

To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; - followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

‘He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.’; ‘Years of servise pastFrom grateful souls exact reward at last’; ‘My designsExact me in another place.’;

Correctverb

make reparations or amends for;

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

Exactverb

To practice exaction.

‘The anemy shall not exact upon him.’;

Correctverb

censure severely;

‘She chastised him for his insensitive remarks’;

Exactverb

claim as due or just;

‘The bank demanded payment of the loan’;

Correctverb

adjust or make up for;

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

Exactverb

take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;

‘the accident claimed three lives’; ‘The hard work took its toll on her’;

Correctverb

punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

‘The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently’;

Exactadjective

marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact;

‘an exact mind’; ‘an exact copy’; ‘hit the exact center of the target’;

Correctverb

go down in value;

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

Exactadjective

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;

‘a precise image’; ‘a precise measurement’;

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’;

Exactadjective

not approximated in any way; precise

‘the exact details were still being worked out’;

Correctverb

treat a defect;

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

Exactadjective

accurate or correct in all details

‘an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed’;

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’;

Exactadjective

(of a person) accurate and careful about minor details

‘she was an exact, clever manager’;

Correctadjective

socially right or correct;

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

Exactadjective

(of a subject of study) permitting precise measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories

‘psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet’;

Correctadjective

in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

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

Exactverb

demand and obtain (something) from someone

‘he exacted promises that another Watergate would never be allowed to happen’;

Correctadjective

correct in opinion or judgment;

‘time proved him right’;

Exactverb

inflict (revenge) on someone

‘he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate’;