English Dictionary

erect

/ɪˈɹɛkt/

verb

(transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. / (transitive) To cause to stand up or out. / To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

He helped to erect the new building.

意味（1）

(transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

to erect a house or a fort

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause to stand up or out.

意味（3）

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

意味（4）

(intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.

As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.

意味（5）

(transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

that didst his state above his hopes erect

意味（6）

(transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.

意味（7）

(transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).

In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.

On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.

意味（9）

(transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.

from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises

意味（10）

(transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

to erect a new commonwealth