erect
IPA: ɪrˈɛkt
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.
- (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
- (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
- (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
adjective
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- (of a person) Having an erect penis.
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- Watchful; alert.
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
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Examples of "erect" in Sentences
- In the fall it dries out but the stalks remain erect.
- She has walked and walked, in erect dignity – with a child on her back and a load on her head.
- The former word also means _he will establish_, or _plant in an erect position_ -- from the verb [Hebrew] _Kūn, he stood erect_.
- If we are to assume that each little yellow member is 4.5 inches when erect, that is still 12,000,000feet of fallow penises, or 2,273 miles of unused little dinks.
- When the news, if you can call an erect penis news, exploded on to the Twittersphere, and then the blogosphere, and then into what another prominent American politician calls the "lamestream" media, Weiner seemed a bit confused.
- Fate was tempting me and it was only a testament to my iron will that I did not succumb...and to the fact that in my experience, men who start out a bit on the smaller side often grow to be bigger than average once erect, which is what's important, after all.
- From the wing came a high grinding noise; through her porthole she saw the flaps strain erect, exposing their valves, and the vast tapering wing, with its indifferent little aerial at the very tip and its aluminum segments stenciled with warnings to mechanics, seem to stand on end; the intricate stiff entity of it was heeling beyond any angle of possible recovery.
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