What is the difference between correct and accurate?
Correct is a synonym of accurate. As adjectives the difference between correct and accurate is that correct is free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth while accurate is in exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate” calculator; an ”accurate” measure; ”accurate expression, knowledge, etc. As a verb correct is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.
correct
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Synonyms
* (with good manners) well-mannered, well behaved
Antonyms
* (without error) incorrect, inaccurate
* (with good manners) uncouth
Derived terms
* anatomically correct
* correctly
* hypercorrect
* incorrect
Verb
(en verb )
To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
- He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
(by extension) To grade (examination papers).
To inform (someone) of the latter’s error.
- It’s rude to correct your parents.
Derived terms
* correctable
* correction
* uncorrectable
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accurate
English
Adjective
(en-adj)
In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate” calculator; an ”accurate” measure; ”accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
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- For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
* Bacon
- Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
Usage notes
* We speak of a thing as correct‘ with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a ”’correct”’ account, a ”’correct”’ likeness, a man of ‘ correct deportment.
* We speak of a thing as accurate‘ with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an ”’accurate”’ statement, an ‘ accurate detail of particulars.
* We speak of a thing as exact‘ with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an ”’exact”’ coincidence, the ”’exact”’ truth, an ‘ exact likeness.
* We speak of a thing as precise‘ when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if ”cut down” thereto; as a ”’precise”’ conformity instructions; ”’precisely”’ right; he was very ‘ precise in giving his directions.
Synonyms
* correct
* exact
* just
* nice
* particular
Derived terms
* accuracy
* accurately
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