Erect

What do we mean by erect?

Being in a vertical, upright position. adjective

Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition. adjective

To construct by assembling. transitive verb

To raise to a rigid or upright condition. transitive verb

To fix in an upright position. transitive verb

To set up; establish. transitive verb

To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base. transitive verb

To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular position; set up; raise up: as, to erect a telegraph-pole or a flagstaff.

To raise, as a building; build; construct: as, to erect a house or a temple; to erect a fort.

To set up or establish; found; form; frame: as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.

To raise from a lower level or condition to a higher; elevate; exalt; lift up.

To animate; encourage.

To advance or set forth; propound.

To draw, as a figure, upon a base; construct, as a figure: as, to erect a horoscope; to erect a circle on a given line as a semidiameter; to erect a perpendicular to a line from a given point in the line.

2 and Construct, build, institute, establish, plant.

1 and Elevate. See raise.

To take an upright position; rise.

Having an upright posture; standing; directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Specifically— In heraldry, set vertically in some unusual way: thus, a boar's head charged with the muzzle or snout uppermost, pointing to the top of the field, is said to be erect.

In botany, vertical throughout; not spreading or declined; upright: as, an erect stem; an erect leaf or ovule.

Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

(of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.

(of a man) Having an erect penis

Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Watchful; alert.

Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

Words that are spelled similarly to erect:
erect, elect, eject, eruct, rect, exect, erec, erech, eect.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word erect:
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Words that rhyme with erect:
effect, affect, respect, project, subject, aspect, object, perfect, reflect, direct, connect, circumspect, defect, expect, correct, neglect, suspect, collect, select, protect, dialect, reject, detect, deflect, architect, retrospect, dissect, insect, sect, intellect, elect, inspect, disrespect, eject, intersect, indirect, prefect, resurrect, interject, disconnect, inject, infect, transect, side effect, incorrect, recollect, spect, introspect, deject, interconnect, redirect, checked, aftereffect, confect, flecked, wrecked, disaffect, decked, reelect, necked, speckt, disinfect, in effect, bedecked, henpecked, reconnect, misdirect, brecht, welked, hecht, unchecked, doppler effect, trekked, specked, overprotect, greenhouse effect, reinspect, recht, albrecht, pecked, specht, take effect, future perfect, knecht, in that respect, present perfect, schlecht, sound effect, scale insect, past perfect, whelked, stick insect, cantonese dialect, coattails effect, liege subject, willful neglect, rechecked, wecht, child neglect, landscape architect.

Adjectives that are often used to describe erect:
deep, vain, habit.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective erect:
position, posture, penis, figure, stems, carriage, image, stem, hairs, attitude, branches, ears, barriers, bearing, buildings, herb, form, shrub, habit, nipples, head, filaments, leaves, phallus, plant, perpendiculars, body, trunk, spikes, shoots, film, scales, growth, plants, penises, stance, trees, tree, nipple, monuments, positions, houses, setae, flowers, racemes, axes, stature, spine, species, images, organ, member, spines, gait, stalks, figures, stones, statues, walls, tail, hair, clusters, herbs, bristles, fronds, shrubs, radiograph, structures, feet, ovule, panicles, stalk, films, locomotion, postures, heads, pubescence, altars, shoulders, mane, axis, inches, frame, fences, conidiophores, batir, vision, fortifications, ovules, churches.

Consonant match to erect:
eruct, arrect, r act.

Words that sound like erect:
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