Rally vs Correct - What's the difference?
rally | correct |
A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
* Dryden
* Tillotson
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
* Addison
* Gay
Good-humoured raillery.
Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
(by extension) To grade (examination papers).
To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
As verbs the difference between rally and correct
is that rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite or rally can be to tease; to chaff good-humouredly while correct is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.As a noun rally
is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause or rally can be good-humoured raillery.As an adjective correct is
free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.rally
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .Noun
(rallies)Hyponyms
* (increase in value) (l)Verb
(en-verb)- The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
Synonyms
* (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (increase in value) (l)Derived terms
* rallying pointEtymology 2
(etyl) railler. See .Verb
(en-verb)- Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
Noun
(-)References
* ----correct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (with good manners) well-mannered, well behavedAntonyms
* (without error) incorrect, inaccurate * (with good manners) uncouthDerived terms
* anatomically correct * correctly * hypercorrect * incorrectVerb
(en verb)- He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
- It's rude to correct your parents.