What is the meaning of correct?

verb

• Make right or correct.
  • usage: "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
  • synonyms: rectify, right
• Make reparations or amends for.
  • usage: "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
  • synonyms: right, compensate, redress
• Censure severely.
  • usage: "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
  • synonyms: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten
• Adjust for.
  • usage: "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
  • synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, make up, even out, even off, even up
• Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.
  • usage: "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
  • synonyms: discipline, sort out
• Go down in value.
  • usage: "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
  • synonyms: decline, slump
• Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
  • usage: "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
  • synonyms: adjust, set
• Treat a defect.
  • usage: "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

adjective

• Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.
  • usage: "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"
  • synonyms: right
• Socially right or correct.
  • usage: "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"
  • synonyms: right
• In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure.
  • usage: "what's the right word for this"; "the right way to open oysters"
  • synonyms: right
• Correct in opinion or judgment.
  • usage: "time proved him right"
  • synonyms: right