Word Meanings - CORRECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.

Additional info about word: CORRECTION

1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype. 2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak. 3. 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. 4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. 5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. Correction line , a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORRECTION)

• Emendation
• Correction
• amendment
• rectification
• reformation
• Improvement
• Advancement
• progress
• increase
• correction
• proficiency

Related words: (words related to CORRECTION)

• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• EMENDATION
  1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor. 2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• CORRECTIONER
  One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. Shak.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PROGRESSIONIST
  1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• AMENDMENT
  Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation. (more info) 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any
• CORRECTION
  1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.
• INCREASE
  To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
• INCREASER
  One who, or that, increases.
• RECTIFICATION
  The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. Rectification of a globe , its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. (more info) 1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification
• ADVANCEMENT
  Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
• INCREASEFUL
  Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." Shak.
• PROGRESSIVE
  1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
• CORRECTIONAL
  Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
• REFORMATION
  1. The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UNPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• NONPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.
• PROFICIENCE; PROFICIENCY
  The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.
• MISIMPROVEMENT
  Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
• DISIMPROVEMENT
  Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.