Erect: English to English |
Erect (a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. |
Erect (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted. |
Erect (a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. |
Erect (a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. |
Erect (a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. |
Erect (a.) Watchful; alert. |
Erect (v. i.) To rise upright. |
Erect (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer. |
Erect (v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. |
Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. |
Erect (v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine. |
Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. |
Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. |