Fix vs. Correct — What's the Difference?

To correct or set right; adjust

To make or put right

To restore to proper condition or working order; repair

To remove the errors or mistakes from

To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare

To indicate or mark the errors in

To spay or castrate (an animal).

To speak to or communicate with (someone) in order to point out a mistake or error.

To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means

To scold or punish so as to improve or reform.

(Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.

To remedy or counteract (a defect, for example)

To place securely; make stable or firm

To adjust so as to meet a required standard or condition

To secure to another; attach

To make corrections.

To put into a stable or unalterable form

To make adjustments; compensate

To make (a chemical substance) nonvolatile or solid.

Free from error or fault; true or accurate.

(Biology) To convert (nitrogen or carbon) into stable, biologically assimilable compounds.

Conforming to standards; proper

To kill and preserve (a specimen) intact for microscopic study.

Free from error; true; accurate.

To prevent discoloration of (a photographic image) by washing or coating with a chemical preservative.

With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

To direct steadily

Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

To capture or hold

A correct response.

To set or place definitely; establish

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

To determine with accuracy; ascertain

To grade (examination papers).

To agree on; arrange

(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.

To assign; attribute

(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

(Computers) To convert (data) from floating-point notation to fixed-point notation.

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.

To direct one's efforts or attention; concentrate

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

To become stable or firm; harden

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).

Chiefly Southern US To be on the verge of; to be making preparations for. Used in progressive tenses with the infinitive

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.

The act of adjusting, correcting, or repairing.

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.

(Informal) Something that repairs or restores; a solution

Make right or correct;

The position, as of a ship or aircraft, determined by visual observations with the aid of equipment.

Make reparations or amends for;

A clear determination or understanding

Censure severely;

An instance of arranging a special consideration, such as an exemption from a requirement, or an improper or illegal outcome, especially by means of bribery.

Adjust or make up for;

A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

(Slang) An amount or dose of something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic.

Go down in value;

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;

(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

Treat a defect;

(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;

To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

Socially right or correct;

To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.

In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

(transitive) To mend, to repair.

Correct in opinion or judgment;

To prepare (food or drink).

(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

To map a (point or subset) to itself.

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

To convert into a stable or available form.

(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

A repair or corrective action.

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

A determination of location.

(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Fixed; solidified.

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

To transfix; to pierce.

To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.

To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

Fettling.

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;

The act of putting something in working order again

An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;

A determination of the location of something;

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

Cause to be firmly attached;

Decide upon or fix definitely;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Take vengeance on or get even;

Set or place definitely;

Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

Make fixed, stable or stationary;

Make infertile;

Put (something somewhere) firmly;

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;