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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: erect (0.01176 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to erect.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: erect conggok, membangunkan, membatang, mencacakkan, mendirikan, tegak
English → English (WordNet) Definition: erect erect adj 1: upright in position or posture; “an erect stature”; “erect flower stalks”; “for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression”; “a column still vertical amid the ruins”; “he sat bolt upright” [syn: vertical, upright] [ant: unerect] 2: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: tumid] erect v 1: construct, build, or erect; “Raise a barn” [syn: raise, rear, set up, put up] [ant: level] 2: cause to rise up [syn: rear]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Erect Erect \E*rect"\, a. [L. erectus, p. p. of erigere to erect; e out + regere to lead straight. See Right, and cf. Alert.] 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. [1913 Webster] Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster] 2. Directed upward; raised; uplifted. [1913 Webster] His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. [1913 Webster] But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart? --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Watchful; alert. [1913 Webster] Vigilant and erect attention of mind. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 5. (Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. [1913 Webster] 6. (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. [1913 Webster] Erect \E*rect"\, v. i. To rise upright. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] By wet, stalks do erect. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Erect \E*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erected; p. pr. & vb. n. Erecting.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] 3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. [1913 Webster] That didst his state above his hopes erect. --Daniel. [1913 Webster] I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer. [1913 Webster] It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. --Barrow. [1913 Webster] 5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. “To erect conclusions.” --Sir T. Browne. “Malebranche erects this proposition.” --Locke. [1913 Webster] 6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. “To erect a new commonwealth.” --Hooker. [1913 Webster] Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted. Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found. [1913 Webster]

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