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correct
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from com- (“together”) + regere (“to make straight, rule”).
Adjective
correct (comparative more correct, superlative most correct)
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Synonyms
- (free from error): right
- (with good manners): well-mannered, well behaved
Antonyms
- (without error): incorrect, inaccurate
- (with good manners): uncouth
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
correct
- (India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonym: OK
Etymology 2
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
Verb
correct (third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected)
- (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- correct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- correct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- correct at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French correct, from Latin corr?ctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??r?kt/
- Hyphenation: cor?rect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Adjective
correct (comparative correcter, superlative correctst)
- correct
Inflection
Synonyms
- juist
Derived terms
- correctheid
- incorrect
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin correctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.??kt/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /k?.??k/
Adjective
correct (feminine singular correcte, masculine plural corrects, feminine plural correctes)
- correct, right
- (colloquial) passable, okay
- (Quebec, colloquial) OK, fine, alright
Derived terms
- politiquement correct
Related terms
- correctement
- correctif
- correction
- corriger
- incorrect
- incorrectement
Further reading
- “correct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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tick
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: tic
Etymology 1
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kkô, suffixed variant of Proto-Germanic *t?gô, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Hypernyms: ectoparasite, arachnid
Derived terms
- detick
- tick bean
- tick trefoil
Translations
Further reading
- tick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tick on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ixodida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ixodida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2
From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”)
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- Synonym: sec
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (?) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- Synonym: checkmark
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- (ornithology) The whinchat.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- 1550 (in Lent), Hugh Latimer, last sermon preached before King Edward VI
- Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
- 1550 (in Lent), Hugh Latimer, last sermon preached before King Edward VI
- (birdwatching) To add a bird to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).
Noun
tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
Synonyms
- ticking
Derived terms
- ticking
Translations
Etymology 4
Clipping of ticket.
Noun
tick (uncountable)
- (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- Synonyms: credit, trust
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 42:
- Immediately he got any money he would pay his debt; if there was any over he would spend it; if there was not—and there seldom was—he would begin to go on tick again.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 190:
- He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.
Translations
Verb
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
Etymology 5
From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English ti??en (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikk?n (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tig? (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- (obsolete, place names) A goat.
Usage notes
- Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century.
Swedish
Noun
tick n
- tick (quiet but sharp sound)
Declension
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