Correct vs. Valid
Correctadjective
Free from error; true; accurate.
Correctadjective
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
Correctverb
(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
Correctverb
To grade (examination papers).
Correctverb
(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
Correctverb
(transitive) To discipline; to punish.
Correctadjective
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.
Correctverb
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
Correctverb
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).
Correctverb
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.
Correctverb
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.
Correctverb
make right or correct;
Correctverb
make reparations or amends for;
Correctverb
censure severely;
Correctverb
adjust or make up for;
Correctverb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
Correctverb
go down in value;
Correctverb
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
Correctverb
treat a defect;
Correctadjective
free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
Correctadjective
socially right or correct;
Correctadjective
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
Correctadjective
correct in opinion or judgment;
Validadjective
Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
Validadjective
Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
Validadjective
Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
Validadjective
(logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
Validadjective
(logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
Validadjective
Effective.
Validadjective
Strong; powerful; efficient.
Validadjective
Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.
Validadjective
Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
Validadjective
well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force;
Validadjective
still legally acceptable;
