Recorrect vs. Correct
Difference Between Recorrect and Correct
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.
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Correct➦
To make or put right
correct a mistake.
correct a misunderstanding.
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To remove the errors or mistakes from
corrected her previous testimony.
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Correct➦
To indicate or mark the errors in
correct an exam.
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To speak to or communicate with (someone) in order to point out a mistake or error.
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To scold or punish so as to improve or reform.
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Correct➦
To remedy or counteract (a defect, for example)
The new glasses corrected his blurry vision.
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Correct➦
To adjust so as to meet a required standard or condition
correct the wheel alignment on a car.
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Correct➦
To make corrections.
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Correct➦
To make adjustments; compensate
correcting for the effects of air resistance.
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Correct➦
Free from error or fault; true or accurate.
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Correct➦
Conforming to standards; proper
correct behavior.
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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.
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Correct➦
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
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Correct➦
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
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Correct➦
A correct response.
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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.
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Correct➦
To grade (examination papers).
The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
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Correct➦
(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
It's rude to correct your parents.
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Correct➦
(transitive) To discipline; to punish.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Correct➦
make right or correct;
Correct the mistakes
rectify the calculation
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Correct➦
make reparations or amends for;
right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
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Correct➦
censure severely;
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
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Correct➦
adjust or make up for;
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
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Correct➦
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
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Correct➦
go down in value;
the stock market corrected
prices slumped
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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
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Correct➦
treat a defect;
The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
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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
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Correct➦
socially right or correct;
it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye
correct behavior
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Correct➦
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
what's the right word for this?
the right way to open oysters
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Correct➦
correct in opinion or judgment;
time proved him right
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