- correct
- I UK [kəˈrekt] / US
adjective ***
1) right according to the facts, with no mistakesThe first person to give the correct answer wins the contest.
Make sure you use the correct address.
a) right according to your opinion or judgment of a situationIf my calculations are correct, we should arrive in exactly 17 minutes.
a correct diagnosis
b) right according to the established rules or ways of doing somethinga grammatically correct sentence
2) [not usually before noun] behaving in a way that is considered socially right or politeMy father was always very formal and correct.
Derived word:
correctly
adverbShe guessed my age correctly.
They refused, quite correctly, to give us this information.
II UK [kəˈrekt] / US verb
Word forms "correct":
present tense I/you/we/they correct he/she/it corrects present participle correcting past tense corrected past participle corrected
**
1)a) [transitive] to show that something is wrong, and make it rightI want to correct this false impression that people have of me.
b) to tell someone that what they have said is not right or truecorrect yourself:I started to correct him, then realized there was no point.
"I'm seventeen. No," she corrected herself. "I'm eighteen now."
2) [transitive] to deal with a technical or medical problem, in order to make something work in the way that it shouldShe had surgery to correct a defect in her left eye.
We need to correct the imbalance in men and women's pay.
3) [transitive] to look at a piece of writing and make marks showing where the mistakes areShe sat correcting the students' homework.
4) [intransitive] to change calculations or measurements so that they become more accuratecorrect for:To give an accurate figure, you will need to correct for inflation.
•See:stand I
English dictionary. 2014.