Betekenis van correct In het Nederlands

• 0 in agreement with the true facts or with what is generally accepted:

  • a correct answer

  • "Is that the correct spelling?" "I don't know - look it up in a dictionary."

  • It's not correct to describe them as "students".

  • formal "Your name is Angela Black?" "That is correct."

  • He's very correct in his dress/speech/manner, isn't he?

• 1 to show or tell someone that something is wrong and to make it right:

  • Students said it was helpful if the teacher corrected their pronunciation.

  • I have 30 homework assignments to correct.

  • glasses to correct poor vision

  • a chair that corrects bad posture

  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we arranged the meeting for the 12 December.

• 2 in agreement with the true facts or with a generally accepted standard:

  • It’s your responsibility to see that your tax return is correct.

  • Do you have the correct time?

  • "Did you testify that you recognized this man?" "That’s correct."

• 3 to show or fix what is wrong; make right:

  • He knew she was mistaken but made no effort to correct her.

  • It is the policy of this newspaper to correct errors of fact that appear in its news columns.

  • Doctors can now use laser surgery to correct certain eye problems.

• 4 if prices, values, etc. correct or correct themselves, they change and become more normal after a period of being too high, too low, etc.:

  • The market is positioned to correct and that is what's happening.

  • Experts believe this is merely a slowdown in the economy that will correct itself.

• 5 to change an amount, a calculation, etc. in order to make it more accurate, by considering certain facts:

  • These figures have been corrected to allow for inflation

  • correct sth for sth The mid-year review did not correct the accounts for exchange-rate fluctuation.