erect

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

   “Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.”

2. sıfat Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.

   “The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.”

3. sıfat Having an erect penis or clitoris.

   “OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!”

4. sıfat Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

   “But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?”

5. sıfat Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

   “His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.”

6. sıfat Watchful; alert.

   “vigilant and erect attention of mind”

7. sıfat Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
8. fiil To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

   “to erect a house or a fort”

9. fiil To cause to stand up or out.
10. fiil To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

    “to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.”

11. fiil To spin up and align to vertical.

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

12. fiil To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

    “that didst his state above his hopes erect”

13. fiil To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

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

14. fiil 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.”

15. fiil 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.”

16. fiil 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”

17. fiil To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

    “to erect a new commonwealth”