Crossword-Solution: CORRECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Correction | n. | The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. |
| Correction | n. | The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. |
| Correction | n. | 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. |
| Correction | n. | Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. |
| Correction | n. | An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “CORRECTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake | 1 answer |
| THING substituted for what is wrong | 1 answer |
| Proofer's change | 1 answer |
| Proof entry | 1 answer |
| Embarrassing newspaper note | 1 answer |
| CORRECTING | 3 answers |
| Setting right | 3 answers |
| remedial measure | 4 answers |
| reproof | 11 answers |
| rectification | 13 answers |
| rewriting | 14 answers |
| reconsideration | 14 answers |
| Revision | 15 answers |
| Retribution | 20 answers |
| renewal | 30 answers |
| editing | 32 answers |
| amendment | 32 answers |
| Admonition | 54 answers |
| punishment | 57 answers |
| castigation | 58 answers |
| chastisement | 61 answers |
| recovery | 63 answers |
| reform | 70 answers |
| Training ___ | 70 answers |
| Repair | 71 answers |
| upkeep | 73 answers |
| Reprimand | 73 answers |
| alteration | 76 answers |
| Review | 78 answers |
| Fix | 91 answers |
| Measure | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CORRECTION (5)
Beside her, Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
Most significant is the editing, correction of errors, and spell-checkings, which though they may sound easy to perform require, in fact, a great deal of time.
The other features of a top of the line FAX modem include: (1) Up to 14,440 baud rate (7 times faster than 2400 baud) (2) Data compression (V.32bis is the name of the standard) (3) Error correction (V.42bis is the name of the standard) HOOKING UP THE MODEM The modem goes between your computers serial (one-bit-at-a-time) communications port and your telephone line.
Combine this with automatic transfers of your commands, transmitted in of one stream of data with automatic error correction (in the software and in the modem), and you have a very robust system.
These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of families, these slight favours that might so incommode you, are only to be obtained now by interest and importunity.
Quotes with CORRECTION (3)
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.
It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1973–2018).