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of Corral

of Corral

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.

Corrosive.

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

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).

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.

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.

Capable of being corrected.

of Correct

Alt. of Correctable

To correct.

of Correct

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.

That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.

Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.