Correcting

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Correct \Cor*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrected}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Correcting}.]
     1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice,
        or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
        principles.
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              This is a defect in the first make of some men's
              minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
                                                    --T. Burnet.
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     2. 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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     3. 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.
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              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.       --Shak.
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     4. 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.
  
     Syn: To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise;
          punish; discipline; chasten. See {Amend}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  correcting \correcting\ n.
     the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.
  
     Syn: correction, rectification.
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