English
Pronunciation
Noun
correction fluid (countable and uncountable, plural correction fluids)
- A white, opaque fluid, applied to paper to mask textual errors; used especially to mask errors in typing so that corrections may be overtyped.
Usage notes
- Known by the trade names Tipp-Ex in Britain, Wite-Out in the United States and Twink in New Zealand.
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Translations
fluid for masking textual errors
- Arabic: مُصَحِّح m (muṣaḥḥiḥ)
- Hijazi Arabic: مُزيل m (muzīl)
- Bulgarian: коректор (bg) (korektor)
- Catalan: corrector líquid m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 塗改液 / 涂改液 (tou4 goi2 jik6), 白油 (baak6 jau4-2)
- Mandarin: 改正液 (gǎizhèngyè), 修正液 (xiūzhèngyè), 塗改液 / 涂改液 (túgǎiyè), 改錯液 / 改错液 (gǎicuòyè), 糾正液 / 纠正液 (jiūzhèngyè), 立刻白 (lìkèbái)
- Czech: korekční kapalina f
- Danish: rettelak c, kvajeblæk n (informal)
- Dutch: tipex m or f
- Finnish: korjausneste, korjauslakka
- French: blanco (fr) m, tipex (fr) m, correcteur liquide (fr) m
- German: Korrekturflüssigkeit f
- Italian: bianchetto (it) m
- Japanese: 修正液 (ja) (しゅうせいえき, shūseieki)
- Korean: 수정액(修正液) (sujeong'aek), 화이트 (hwaiteu)
- Lithuanian: tryneklis m, korektorius m
- Persian: غلطگیر
- Polish: korektor (pl) m
- Portuguese: corretivo (pt) líquido (pt), corretor (pt) líquido (pt)
- Russian: зама́зка (ru) f (zamázka), штрих-корре́ктор m (štrix-korréktor), корре́ктор (ru) m (korréktor)
- Serbo-Croatian: korektor (sh) m
- Spanish: corrector líquido m, típex (es) m (either liquid or tape), líquido corrector m
- Swedish: tipp-ex n (trademark), korrigeringsvätska c, korrigeringsfärg (sv) c
- Thai: น้ำยาลบคำผิด (náam-yaa-lóp-kam-pìt), ลิควิด (th) (lí-kwìt)
- Vietnamese: chất lỏng hiệu chỉnh
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