correct

cor|rect1 [ kə`rekt ] adjective ***

1. ) right according to the facts, with no mistakes:

The 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 situation:

If 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 something:

a grammatically correct sentence

─ opposite INCORRECT

2. ) not usually before noun behaving in a way that is considered socially right or polite:

My father was always very formal and correct.

╾ cor|rect|ly adverb:

She guessed my age correctly.

They refused, quite correctly, to give us this information.

correct

cor|rect 2 [ kə`rekt ] verb **

1. ) transitive to show that something is wrong, and make it right:

I want to correct this false impression that people have of me.

a ) to look at a piece of writing and make marks showing where the mistakes are:

She sat correcting the students' homework.

2. ) transitive to deal with a technical or medical problem, in order to make something work in the way that it should:

She 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 tell someone that what they have said is not right, true, or suitable:

I started to correct him, then realized there was no point.

correct yourself: I'm seventeen. No, she corrected herself. I'm eighteen now.

4. ) intransitive correct for TECHNICAL to change calculations or measurements so that they become more accurate:

To give an accurate figure, you will need to correct for inflation.

correct me if I'm wrong SPOKEN

used when you are fairly sure that you are right, especially as a way of politely disagreeing with someone:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't we already discussed that?

I stand corrected SPOKEN FORMAL

used when someone has told you that you are wrong, to show that you accept this