Correct and Hold

Correct

Correct verb - To remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from.

Hold and correct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Correct".

Hold

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

Correct and hold are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Correct" instead a verb "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Common collocations

view correct view hold view
people correct people hold people
record correct record hold record

Both words in one sentence

  • Moon Logic Puzzle Yeah, that's right, the character simply refuses to hold onto the correct point of the hose until it has been shortened for no good reason at all!
  • Visual Novel / Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth The correct contradiction is that the man she supposedly shot in self-defense was using his left hand to hold his weapon instead of his right.
  • Manga / Enen No Shoubotai Later he actually has to remind himself that the "hand he uses chopsticks with" is the correct hand to hold Excalibur.
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