Recorrect vs. Correct — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recorrect and Correct
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Recorrect
To correct again (possibly undoing a previous 'correction').
After the new guy corrected all our inventory values I had to go back and recorrect all of them applying our internal rules.
Correct
To make or put right
Correct a mistake.
Correct a misunderstanding.
Correct
To remove the errors or mistakes from
Corrected her previous testimony.
Correct
To indicate or mark the errors in
Correct an exam.
Correct
To speak to or communicate with (someone) in order to point out a mistake or error.
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Correct
To scold or punish so as to improve or reform.
Correct
To remedy or counteract (a defect, for example)
The new glasses corrected his blurry vision.
Correct
To adjust so as to meet a required standard or condition
Correct the wheel alignment on a car.
Correct
To make corrections.
Correct
To make adjustments; compensate
Correcting for the effects of air resistance.
Correct
Free from error or fault; true or accurate.
Correct
Conforming to standards; proper
Correct behavior.
Correct
Free from error; true; accurate.
Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10
We all agreed they'd made the correct decision.
Correct
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Correct
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
Correct
A correct response.
Correct
(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.
The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
Correct
To grade (examination papers).
The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
Correct
(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
It's rude to correct your parents.
Correct
(transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Correct
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.
Correct
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.
Correct
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).
Correct
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.
Correct
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.
Correct
Make right or correct;
Correct the mistakes
Rectify the calculation
Correct
Make reparations or amends for;
Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
Correct
Censure severely;
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
Correct
Adjust or make up for;
Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Correct
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
Correct
Go down in value;
The stock market corrected
Prices slumped
Correct
Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
Adjust the clock, please
Correct the alignment of the front wheels
Correct
Treat a defect;
The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
Correct
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
Correct
Socially right or correct;
It isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye
Correct behavior
Correct
In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
What's the right word for this?
The right way to open oysters
Correct
Correct in opinion or judgment;
Time proved him right
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