| 释义 |
Verb: correct ku'rekt- Make right or correct
"Correct the mistakes"
- rectify, right - Make reparations or amends for
- right, compensate, redress - Censure severely
- chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten - Adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
- compensate, counterbalance, make up, even out, even off, even up - Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- discipline, sort out - Go down in value
"the stock market corrected"
- decline, slump - Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
"correct the alignment of the front wheels"
- adjust, set - Treat a defect
"The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
Adjective: correct ku'rekt- Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
"the correct answer"; "the correct version"
- right - Socially right or correct
"correct behaviour"
- right - In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- right - Correct in opinion or judgment
- right
Derived forms: correcting, corrected, corrects See also: accurate, correction, corrective, correctness, corrigible, exact, letter-perfect, precise, proper, right-minded, rightness, right-thinking, straight, true, word-perfect Type of: alter, balance, bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet [US], care for, change, change by reversal, chew out, chew up, chide, come down, descend, dress down, equilibrate, equilibrise [Brit], equilibrize, fall, go down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, modify, penalise [Brit], penalize, punish, rag, ream [N. Amer], rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, reverse, scold, take to task, treat, trounce, turn Antonym: falsify, incorrect Encyclopedia: Correct |