Correction
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.
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Correction Quotations
Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.
Ron Paul
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
Ernst Mach
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
Zebulon Pike
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
Randall Terry
Correction Translations
correction in German is Berichtigung, Korrektur
correction in Italian is riforma, emendazione
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