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The third and correct option is "don't be a dick".

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Quick take

make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of correct gathered in one view.

verb

make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"

verb

make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

verb

censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for correct.

verb

make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"

verb

make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

verb

censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

See also: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten

verb

adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

verb

punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"

verb

go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"

verb

alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"

verb

treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

adjective

free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

See also: right

adjective

socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior"

See also: right

adjective

in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"

See also: right

adjective

correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"

See also: right

Example sentences

The third and correct option is "don't be a dick".

Thankfully, the correct code turned up in the mid 2000s.

The "market" won't correct anything, because no one will touch the BofA toxic waste dump with a 10 foot pole.

Richard Stallman is absolutely correct in calling this spyware.

" Again, the delivery here is terrible, IMO, but I think his overall point is largely correct.

I usually try not to get involved with stuff like this but I feel like I'm in a unique situation to correct the record here.

Reading what he is talking about, Stallman's description is absolutely correct.

At any point, a no-knock warrant could be incorrectly issued for my house and I could have paramilitary troops attack.

Let us only hope that systemic fixes can help correct the problem so that this is not the only way available for dealing with such patents.

I think you might have vastly inaccurate pictures of what is and isn't "difficult".> That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct.

There are certainly people trying to argue to the public that a drone strike is highly precise, clinically correct, and technologically accurate.

If you're of the belief that programming is stuck in a rut of constructs from the 1980s and 1990s, and that what is needed is better languages that more carefully describe and address the problems of correct and expressive programming, Golang will drive you nuts.

This author was correct when they said that "worthy causes" is mentioned in the PayPal PDF [1] on this feature: a more full quote being "for your nonprofit or worthy cause"; that said, the PDF also claims that when you sign up for your PayPal account you should do so "selecting nonprofit as the type".