Definition of erect in English:

erect

adjective ɪˈrɛktəˈrɛkt

1Rigidly upright or straight.
竖直的，挺直的
she stood erect with her arms by her sides
她双臂下垂，笔直地站着。
Example sentencesExamples
- When the bar reaches knee level extend your torso and stand erect with your straight down at your sides, exhaling as you do so
- Suddenly, I saw its myriad blades rise erect and shivering.
- I also prefer the world of Ash trees as they are straight and erect, no messing about clogging up the skyline.
- The trunk is held erect with the spine straight and chest lifted.
- It was realized that the Neandertal people, when healthy, stood straight and erect.
- That is to say, these feelings, shaped by biology and gravity which commit us to an upright and erect posture, have obscured some very necessary goals of architecture.
- The flowers are upright, erect and funnel-like in shape, measuring about 40 mm in length.
- Remembering to keep your body straight, head erect, arms straight and to the sides or above the head, is really quite difficult.
- His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
- These were active, fast-moving animals, with fully erect and upright posture, just like dinosaurs and mammals.
- Another of the positions is keeping the back straight and erect, with the vertebrae of the spinal column in a straight line.
- He sat bolt upright, his hackles jumping erect.
- He stood erect, his arms hanging stiffly at his sides.
- Inhale while in lunge, bringing torso erect, then raise arms straight overhead.
- They were tall and erect, straight men in every sense of the term.
- The upright beam was held erect with guys, while the oblique arm or boom hoisted and swung the stone into position.
- Stand up straight - studies show that if you stand upright with your head erect, smile and breathe deeply, it is almost impossible to ‘feel’ depressed.
- The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture.
- She bent over, with her arm still erect, and snatched it with her other hand.
- He possessed an erect, upright bearing and as his hair turned gray, he became more physically impressive but not domineering in appearance.
Synonyms
upright, bolt upright, straight, vertical, perpendicular, plumb, standing up
Heraldry rampant
bristling, standing up (on end), upright
1. 1.1 (of the penis, clitoris, or nipples) enlarged and rigid, especially in sexual excitement.
  （尤指性兴奋时的阴茎，阴蒂，乳头）勃起的
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seems an erect penis used in a fictionally violent manner is somehow worse than a gun used the same way.
  Unfastening her bra he pulled it off slowly toward him, her erect nipples rubbing against the flesh of his chest.
  A Western man in the audience could attract as much attention as an erect nipple.
  It was fully erect, and standing straight out from his body.
  He covered her erect nipple with his mouth and watched her.
  Such women as these emasculate the male sexual drive, they reduce the man's erect penis to a limp one!
  However, while I was outside yesterday, I noticed that my left nipple was particularly erect.
  The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it.
  An automatic system causes the nipple to become erect when stimulated by tactile or sexual stimuli.
  A condom is a thin sheath, usually made out of latex, which is rolled onto an erect penis before sexual contact.
  It cannot produce desire; it simply helps to make a penis erect once the desire is there.
  But I did notice that I was the only woman in there whose nipples were erect.
  So I wanted her, wanted to run my tongue over those erect nipples, to play with the twin black hairs, to know what it felt like to slip inside her.
  I find it ludicrous that an erect penis or penetration is still something that is not really permitted to be shown.
  The worn T-shirt she wore did nothing to conceal the fact that Jess was cold, her hard, erect nipples pressing against the soft cotton of her shirt.
  As she said this, she lifted a plasticine model of an erect penis, complete with testicles and all.
  Another effect of the treatment is erect nipples, which lasts about three to four weeks.
  You can be as powerful and intelligent and as rich as you like, but if I make your penis erect, you're under my control.
  She muffled a small moan as his hand pinched her erect nipple through the dress.
  There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us.
  She laughed at me and pulled my friend by his still totally erect penis into our bedroom.
  Synonyms
  engorged, enlarged, swollen, tumescent
  hard, rigid, stiff, firm

verb ɪˈrɛktəˈrɛkt

[with object]

1Put together and set upright (a building, wall, or other structure)
建造（楼房、墙壁或其他直立的建筑物）
the guest house was erected in the eighteenth century
这座宾馆是18世纪建造的。
the police had erected roadblocks
警察设置了路障。
Example sentencesExamples
- Planning permission was granted in October 1999 for a development of 32 houses with detached garages and included a proposal to erect a retaining wall.
- Fred Snowden served as business manager of a church when it was erecting a church building.
- Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes.
- With a membership of 40 the church is prayerfully seeking a pastor and expecting to be able to erect their own church building.
- The bill includes the cost of erecting the various building structures as well as expenditure related to yesterday's elaborate festival programme.
- More than two-thirds of Jack's mature and sheltered garden will disappear this week when builders move in to erect a wall along Anderson's boundary.
- If you invade someone's village and start trying to erect school buildings, there are bound to be several people living there who are somewhat better qualified for the job.
- Covered by wild grass, one is not supposed to erect any buildings, plant any trees nor light any fires on this 20-meter wide strip of land.
- Greenwich Council has given the church permission to erect a new church building and a terrace of six houses.
- If a builder erects a structure containing a latent defect which renders it dangerous to persons or property, he will be liable in tort for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from that dangerous defect.
- The afternoon would then find her in the practice yards in the drilling lines, or in the fields, erecting new buildings, or at the walls, mending a break or adding to the ever-thicker wood and stone barriers.
- At this point he was beginning to erect the walls and had paused from nailing the frame together.
- While a small number of the men looked after the reindeer, the majority, including Sakariassen, were living in tents and employed in erecting the buildings of Eaton Station.
- Earlier, she made Cheng redecorate his office, erecting a wall to separate his room from that of other aides.
- It had failed to prevent the builder of the flats from erecting a substandard structure…
- Before a builder can erect a house, there has to be a foundation.
- In the early Renaissance, the artist provided creative input, but the architect and builder were responsible for erecting a building.
- By the end of his first term, fully five million Americans were working directly for the federal government - cleaning parks, building post offices, erecting libraries and dams.
- They quickly improved trade and commerce on the islands by building new hospitals and erecting strong fortifications.
- The prefabricated building was erected on land beside St Nicholas Primary School on Friday after a delay of two days due to stormy weather.
Synonyms
build, construct, put up
assemble, put together, fabricate, form, manufacture
assemble, put up, set up, set upright, fit together, put together, piece together
pitch, position, fix in position, place, locate
1. 1.1 Create or establish (a theory or system)
  创立（理论）；建立（体制）
  the party that erected the welfare state
  建立福利国家的政党。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were not asked to erect philosophical systems on the basis of selected premisses, but to consider the kind of truth inherent in all of them.
  Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard.
  Le Tellier designed many of the reforms later carried out by Louvois; the father played the role of architect and the son of builder in erecting the edifice of French military administration.
  The game would then be one simply of anticipating progress, and buying in its path, i.e., erecting barriers to improved land use.
  We erect a barrier of fear and desire that may become difficult to break through.
  Some even want us to erect barriers to keep jobs in the United States, even if it means curbing productivity gains.
  Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending.
  Thus Huxley's attempt to erect a system of contractual rights in place of ‘natural rights’ must collapse.
  We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people.
  They were not but, your Honour, what was happening was that they were erecting a contractual system and qualifying it.
  The economics of spam are so favorable to spammers that no matter how high regulation erects the barrier to entering the business it wouldn't be high enough.
  The editorial goes on to point out the value of advertising in erecting barriers to potential competition.
  But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled.
  It is a rule of faith, setting boundaries without erecting unnecessary barriers.
  When we deny permission by being too assiduous in erecting barriers against irresponsibility, we are also erecting barriers against the exercise of responsibility.
  Jesus is not a distant, indifferent ruler who erects barriers between himself and his people, as great kings and emperors have done throughout history.
  The founders of religions and philosophies erected their ethical system on this basis.
  ‘This bill erects new barriers to lawsuits and places new burdens on the plaintiffs,’ Mr. Leahy said.
  Many are likely to resist by devaluing their own currencies or erecting new barriers against U.S. goods.
  Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm.
  Synonyms
  establish, form, set up, put in place, found, institute, initiate, formulate, devise, create, organize, frame

Derivatives

erectable

adjective

The radar's erectable antenna is up to 13m high.
Example sentencesExamples
- After World War II there was a boom of this very type, offered on a large scale at affordable prices and in obsessively homogeneous prototypes, easily transportable and erectable.
- This family of tents will be a series of quickly erectable tents designed to be used either in a stand-alone mode or connected to other tents.
- In some, these form an erectable crest on their necks and the tops of their head.
- Instead of using tents and erectable buildings, base personnel could utilize special versions of the module for shelter.

erectly

adverb ɪˈrɛktliəˈrɛk(t)li

Boule concluded that Neandertal man could not have walked erectly, but rather must have walked in a clumsy fashion.
Example sentencesExamples
- The room had become deathly quiet, each crew member standing erectly as not to further displease their captain.
- In manner Colonel Wayne Everson is dignified and carries himself erectly with a military bearing.
- Many grasses grow erectly, but others flow outward in a graceful vase or fountain shape.

erectness

noun ɪˈrɛktnəsəˈrɛk(t)nəs

Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hosfield transferred the genes for erectness, canning quality, and virus resistance into red bean germplasm.
- Still, she had a vigour and erectness about her, and I was glad to see that a smile of welcome and interest began to play about her face.
- As they stood in a gallery where Sheetrock walls meet steel floor plates without baseboard or molding, they mediated gently, calling attention to proportions and borders and to the propriety of erectness.
- Concomitantly, most favored female bodies with rounded chests that were attributable, in part, to an erectness of figure that also was considered essential to female beauty.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin erect- 'set up', from the verb erigere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + regere 'to direct'.

Rhymes

affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of erect in US English:

erect

adjectiveəˈrektəˈrɛkt

1Rigidly upright or straight.
竖直的，挺直的
she stood erect with her arms by her sides
她双臂下垂，笔直地站着。
Example sentencesExamples
- The flowers are upright, erect and funnel-like in shape, measuring about 40 mm in length.
- He sat bolt upright, his hackles jumping erect.
- Remembering to keep your body straight, head erect, arms straight and to the sides or above the head, is really quite difficult.
- His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony.
- These were active, fast-moving animals, with fully erect and upright posture, just like dinosaurs and mammals.
- He possessed an erect, upright bearing and as his hair turned gray, he became more physically impressive but not domineering in appearance.
- The trunk is held erect with the spine straight and chest lifted.
- They were tall and erect, straight men in every sense of the term.
- Inhale while in lunge, bringing torso erect, then raise arms straight overhead.
- Another of the positions is keeping the back straight and erect, with the vertebrae of the spinal column in a straight line.
- I also prefer the world of Ash trees as they are straight and erect, no messing about clogging up the skyline.
- When the bar reaches knee level extend your torso and stand erect with your straight down at your sides, exhaling as you do so
- That is to say, these feelings, shaped by biology and gravity which commit us to an upright and erect posture, have obscured some very necessary goals of architecture.
- Stand up straight - studies show that if you stand upright with your head erect, smile and breathe deeply, it is almost impossible to ‘feel’ depressed.
- She bent over, with her arm still erect, and snatched it with her other hand.
- It was realized that the Neandertal people, when healthy, stood straight and erect.
- The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture.
- Suddenly, I saw its myriad blades rise erect and shivering.
- The upright beam was held erect with guys, while the oblique arm or boom hoisted and swung the stone into position.
- He stood erect, his arms hanging stiffly at his sides.
Synonyms
upright, bolt upright, straight, vertical, perpendicular, plumb, standing up
bristling, standing up, standing up on end, upright
1. 1.1 (of the penis, clitoris, or nipples) enlarged and rigid, especially in sexual excitement.
  （尤指性兴奋时的阴茎，阴蒂，乳头）勃起的
  Example sentencesExamples
  But I did notice that I was the only woman in there whose nipples were erect.
  Such women as these emasculate the male sexual drive, they reduce the man's erect penis to a limp one!
  An automatic system causes the nipple to become erect when stimulated by tactile or sexual stimuli.
  You can be as powerful and intelligent and as rich as you like, but if I make your penis erect, you're under my control.
  It seems an erect penis used in a fictionally violent manner is somehow worse than a gun used the same way.
  There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us.
  I find it ludicrous that an erect penis or penetration is still something that is not really permitted to be shown.
  A condom is a thin sheath, usually made out of latex, which is rolled onto an erect penis before sexual contact.
  The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it.
  It was fully erect, and standing straight out from his body.
  However, while I was outside yesterday, I noticed that my left nipple was particularly erect.
  Another effect of the treatment is erect nipples, which lasts about three to four weeks.
  The worn T-shirt she wore did nothing to conceal the fact that Jess was cold, her hard, erect nipples pressing against the soft cotton of her shirt.
  As she said this, she lifted a plasticine model of an erect penis, complete with testicles and all.
  Unfastening her bra he pulled it off slowly toward him, her erect nipples rubbing against the flesh of his chest.
  He covered her erect nipple with his mouth and watched her.
  She laughed at me and pulled my friend by his still totally erect penis into our bedroom.
  It cannot produce desire; it simply helps to make a penis erect once the desire is there.
  She muffled a small moan as his hand pinched her erect nipple through the dress.
  So I wanted her, wanted to run my tongue over those erect nipples, to play with the twin black hairs, to know what it felt like to slip inside her.
  A Western man in the audience could attract as much attention as an erect nipple.
  Synonyms
  engorged, enlarged, swollen, tumescent

verbəˈrektəˈrɛkt

[with object]

1Construct (a building, wall, or other upright structure)
建造（楼房、墙壁或其他直立的建筑物）
the guest house was erected in the eighteenth century
这座宾馆是18世纪建造的。
the police had erected roadblocks
警察设置了路障。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the early Renaissance, the artist provided creative input, but the architect and builder were responsible for erecting a building.
- If you invade someone's village and start trying to erect school buildings, there are bound to be several people living there who are somewhat better qualified for the job.
- Before a builder can erect a house, there has to be a foundation.
- It had failed to prevent the builder of the flats from erecting a substandard structure…
- If a builder erects a structure containing a latent defect which renders it dangerous to persons or property, he will be liable in tort for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from that dangerous defect.
- By the end of his first term, fully five million Americans were working directly for the federal government - cleaning parks, building post offices, erecting libraries and dams.
- With a membership of 40 the church is prayerfully seeking a pastor and expecting to be able to erect their own church building.
- Fred Snowden served as business manager of a church when it was erecting a church building.
- Planning permission was granted in October 1999 for a development of 32 houses with detached garages and included a proposal to erect a retaining wall.
- While a small number of the men looked after the reindeer, the majority, including Sakariassen, were living in tents and employed in erecting the buildings of Eaton Station.
- The prefabricated building was erected on land beside St Nicholas Primary School on Friday after a delay of two days due to stormy weather.
- The afternoon would then find her in the practice yards in the drilling lines, or in the fields, erecting new buildings, or at the walls, mending a break or adding to the ever-thicker wood and stone barriers.
- They quickly improved trade and commerce on the islands by building new hospitals and erecting strong fortifications.
- Covered by wild grass, one is not supposed to erect any buildings, plant any trees nor light any fires on this 20-meter wide strip of land.
- At this point he was beginning to erect the walls and had paused from nailing the frame together.
- Greenwich Council has given the church permission to erect a new church building and a terrace of six houses.
- More than two-thirds of Jack's mature and sheltered garden will disappear this week when builders move in to erect a wall along Anderson's boundary.
- Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes.
- Earlier, she made Cheng redecorate his office, erecting a wall to separate his room from that of other aides.
- The bill includes the cost of erecting the various building structures as well as expenditure related to yesterday's elaborate festival programme.
Synonyms
build, construct, put up
assemble, put up, set up, set upright, fit together, put together, piece together
1. 1.1 Create or establish (a theory or system)
  创立（理论）；建立（体制）
  the party that erected the welfare state
  建立福利国家的政党。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm.
  We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people.
  It is a rule of faith, setting boundaries without erecting unnecessary barriers.
  Le Tellier designed many of the reforms later carried out by Louvois; the father played the role of architect and the son of builder in erecting the edifice of French military administration.
  The founders of religions and philosophies erected their ethical system on this basis.
  The economics of spam are so favorable to spammers that no matter how high regulation erects the barrier to entering the business it wouldn't be high enough.
  Jesus is not a distant, indifferent ruler who erects barriers between himself and his people, as great kings and emperors have done throughout history.
  ‘This bill erects new barriers to lawsuits and places new burdens on the plaintiffs,’ Mr. Leahy said.
  But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled.
  We erect a barrier of fear and desire that may become difficult to break through.
  Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard.
  They were not but, your Honour, what was happening was that they were erecting a contractual system and qualifying it.
  The game would then be one simply of anticipating progress, and buying in its path, i.e., erecting barriers to improved land use.
  They were not asked to erect philosophical systems on the basis of selected premisses, but to consider the kind of truth inherent in all of them.
  When we deny permission by being too assiduous in erecting barriers against irresponsibility, we are also erecting barriers against the exercise of responsibility.
  Some even want us to erect barriers to keep jobs in the United States, even if it means curbing productivity gains.
  The editorial goes on to point out the value of advertising in erecting barriers to potential competition.
  Thus Huxley's attempt to erect a system of contractual rights in place of ‘natural rights’ must collapse.
  Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending.
  Many are likely to resist by devaluing their own currencies or erecting new barriers against U.S. goods.
  Synonyms
  establish, form, set up, put in place, found, institute, initiate, formulate, devise, create, organize, frame

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin erect- ‘set up’, from the verb erigere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + regere ‘to direct’.

单词	erect
释义	Definition of erect in English: erect adjective ɪˈrɛktəˈrɛkt 1Rigidly upright or straight. 竖直的，挺直的 she stood erect with her arms by her sides 她双臂下垂，笔直地站着。 Example sentencesExamples When the bar reaches knee level extend your torso and stand erect with your straight down at your sides, exhaling as you do so Suddenly, I saw its myriad blades rise erect and shivering. I also prefer the world of Ash trees as they are straight and erect, no messing about clogging up the skyline. The trunk is held erect with the spine straight and chest lifted. It was realized that the Neandertal people, when healthy, stood straight and erect. That is to say, these feelings, shaped by biology and gravity which commit us to an upright and erect posture, have obscured some very necessary goals of architecture. The flowers are upright, erect and funnel-like in shape, measuring about 40 mm in length. Remembering to keep your body straight, head erect, arms straight and to the sides or above the head, is really quite difficult. His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony. These were active, fast-moving animals, with fully erect and upright posture, just like dinosaurs and mammals. Another of the positions is keeping the back straight and erect, with the vertebrae of the spinal column in a straight line. He sat bolt upright, his hackles jumping erect. He stood erect, his arms hanging stiffly at his sides. Inhale while in lunge, bringing torso erect, then raise arms straight overhead. They were tall and erect, straight men in every sense of the term. The upright beam was held erect with guys, while the oblique arm or boom hoisted and swung the stone into position. Stand up straight - studies show that if you stand upright with your head erect, smile and breathe deeply, it is almost impossible to ‘feel’ depressed. The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture. She bent over, with her arm still erect, and snatched it with her other hand. He possessed an erect, upright bearing and as his hair turned gray, he became more physically impressive but not domineering in appearance. Synonyms upright, bolt upright, straight, vertical, perpendicular, plumb, standing up Heraldry rampant bristling, standing up (on end), upright 1.1 (of the penis, clitoris, or nipples) enlarged and rigid, especially in sexual excitement. （尤指性兴奋时的阴茎，阴蒂，乳头）勃起的 Example sentencesExamples It seems an erect penis used in a fictionally violent manner is somehow worse than a gun used the same way. Unfastening her bra he pulled it off slowly toward him, her erect nipples rubbing against the flesh of his chest. A Western man in the audience could attract as much attention as an erect nipple. It was fully erect, and standing straight out from his body. He covered her erect nipple with his mouth and watched her. Such women as these emasculate the male sexual drive, they reduce the man's erect penis to a limp one! However, while I was outside yesterday, I noticed that my left nipple was particularly erect. The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it. An automatic system causes the nipple to become erect when stimulated by tactile or sexual stimuli. A condom is a thin sheath, usually made out of latex, which is rolled onto an erect penis before sexual contact. It cannot produce desire; it simply helps to make a penis erect once the desire is there. But I did notice that I was the only woman in there whose nipples were erect. So I wanted her, wanted to run my tongue over those erect nipples, to play with the twin black hairs, to know what it felt like to slip inside her. I find it ludicrous that an erect penis or penetration is still something that is not really permitted to be shown. The worn T-shirt she wore did nothing to conceal the fact that Jess was cold, her hard, erect nipples pressing against the soft cotton of her shirt. As she said this, she lifted a plasticine model of an erect penis, complete with testicles and all. Another effect of the treatment is erect nipples, which lasts about three to four weeks. You can be as powerful and intelligent and as rich as you like, but if I make your penis erect, you're under my control. She muffled a small moan as his hand pinched her erect nipple through the dress. There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us. She laughed at me and pulled my friend by his still totally erect penis into our bedroom. Synonyms engorged, enlarged, swollen, tumescent hard, rigid, stiff, firm verb ɪˈrɛktəˈrɛkt [with object] 1Put together and set upright (a building, wall, or other structure) 建造（楼房、墙壁或其他直立的建筑物） the guest house was erected in the eighteenth century 这座宾馆是18世纪建造的。 the police had erected roadblocks 警察设置了路障。 Example sentencesExamples Planning permission was granted in October 1999 for a development of 32 houses with detached garages and included a proposal to erect a retaining wall. Fred Snowden served as business manager of a church when it was erecting a church building. Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes. With a membership of 40 the church is prayerfully seeking a pastor and expecting to be able to erect their own church building. The bill includes the cost of erecting the various building structures as well as expenditure related to yesterday's elaborate festival programme. More than two-thirds of Jack's mature and sheltered garden will disappear this week when builders move in to erect a wall along Anderson's boundary. If you invade someone's village and start trying to erect school buildings, there are bound to be several people living there who are somewhat better qualified for the job. Covered by wild grass, one is not supposed to erect any buildings, plant any trees nor light any fires on this 20-meter wide strip of land. Greenwich Council has given the church permission to erect a new church building and a terrace of six houses. If a builder erects a structure containing a latent defect which renders it dangerous to persons or property, he will be liable in tort for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from that dangerous defect. The afternoon would then find her in the practice yards in the drilling lines, or in the fields, erecting new buildings, or at the walls, mending a break or adding to the ever-thicker wood and stone barriers. At this point he was beginning to erect the walls and had paused from nailing the frame together. While a small number of the men looked after the reindeer, the majority, including Sakariassen, were living in tents and employed in erecting the buildings of Eaton Station. Earlier, she made Cheng redecorate his office, erecting a wall to separate his room from that of other aides. It had failed to prevent the builder of the flats from erecting a substandard structure… Before a builder can erect a house, there has to be a foundation. In the early Renaissance, the artist provided creative input, but the architect and builder were responsible for erecting a building. By the end of his first term, fully five million Americans were working directly for the federal government - cleaning parks, building post offices, erecting libraries and dams. They quickly improved trade and commerce on the islands by building new hospitals and erecting strong fortifications. The prefabricated building was erected on land beside St Nicholas Primary School on Friday after a delay of two days due to stormy weather. Synonyms build, construct, put up assemble, put together, fabricate, form, manufacture assemble, put up, set up, set upright, fit together, put together, piece together pitch, position, fix in position, place, locate 1.1 Create or establish (a theory or system) 创立（理论）；建立（体制） the party that erected the welfare state 建立福利国家的政党。 Example sentencesExamples They were not asked to erect philosophical systems on the basis of selected premisses, but to consider the kind of truth inherent in all of them. Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard. Le Tellier designed many of the reforms later carried out by Louvois; the father played the role of architect and the son of builder in erecting the edifice of French military administration. The game would then be one simply of anticipating progress, and buying in its path, i.e., erecting barriers to improved land use. We erect a barrier of fear and desire that may become difficult to break through. Some even want us to erect barriers to keep jobs in the United States, even if it means curbing productivity gains. Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending. Thus Huxley's attempt to erect a system of contractual rights in place of ‘natural rights’ must collapse. We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people. They were not but, your Honour, what was happening was that they were erecting a contractual system and qualifying it. The economics of spam are so favorable to spammers that no matter how high regulation erects the barrier to entering the business it wouldn't be high enough. The editorial goes on to point out the value of advertising in erecting barriers to potential competition. But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled. It is a rule of faith, setting boundaries without erecting unnecessary barriers. When we deny permission by being too assiduous in erecting barriers against irresponsibility, we are also erecting barriers against the exercise of responsibility. Jesus is not a distant, indifferent ruler who erects barriers between himself and his people, as great kings and emperors have done throughout history. The founders of religions and philosophies erected their ethical system on this basis. ‘This bill erects new barriers to lawsuits and places new burdens on the plaintiffs,’ Mr. Leahy said. Many are likely to resist by devaluing their own currencies or erecting new barriers against U.S. goods. Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm. Synonyms establish, form, set up, put in place, found, institute, initiate, formulate, devise, create, organize, frame Derivatives erectable adjective The radar's erectable antenna is up to 13m high. Example sentencesExamples After World War II there was a boom of this very type, offered on a large scale at affordable prices and in obsessively homogeneous prototypes, easily transportable and erectable. This family of tents will be a series of quickly erectable tents designed to be used either in a stand-alone mode or connected to other tents. In some, these form an erectable crest on their necks and the tops of their head. Instead of using tents and erectable buildings, base personnel could utilize special versions of the module for shelter. erectly adverb ɪˈrɛktliəˈrɛk(t)li Boule concluded that Neandertal man could not have walked erectly, but rather must have walked in a clumsy fashion. Example sentencesExamples The room had become deathly quiet, each crew member standing erectly as not to further displease their captain. In manner Colonel Wayne Everson is dignified and carries himself erectly with a military bearing. Many grasses grow erectly, but others flow outward in a graceful vase or fountain shape. erectness noun ɪˈrɛktnəsəˈrɛk(t)nəs Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places. Example sentencesExamples Hosfield transferred the genes for erectness, canning quality, and virus resistance into red bean germplasm. Still, she had a vigour and erectness about her, and I was glad to see that a smile of welcome and interest began to play about her face. As they stood in a gallery where Sheetrock walls meet steel floor plates without baseboard or molding, they mediated gently, calling attention to proportions and borders and to the propriety of erectness. Concomitantly, most favored female bodies with rounded chests that were attributable, in part, to an erectness of figure that also was considered essential to female beauty. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin erect- 'set up', from the verb erigere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + regere 'to direct'. Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht Definition of erect in US English: erect adjectiveəˈrektəˈrɛkt 1Rigidly upright or straight. 竖直的，挺直的 she stood erect with her arms by her sides 她双臂下垂，笔直地站着。 Example sentencesExamples The flowers are upright, erect and funnel-like in shape, measuring about 40 mm in length. He sat bolt upright, his hackles jumping erect. Remembering to keep your body straight, head erect, arms straight and to the sides or above the head, is really quite difficult. His back is perfectly straight and erect, his hands behind his head, grasping at his hair, face contorted in agony. These were active, fast-moving animals, with fully erect and upright posture, just like dinosaurs and mammals. He possessed an erect, upright bearing and as his hair turned gray, he became more physically impressive but not domineering in appearance. The trunk is held erect with the spine straight and chest lifted. They were tall and erect, straight men in every sense of the term. Inhale while in lunge, bringing torso erect, then raise arms straight overhead. Another of the positions is keeping the back straight and erect, with the vertebrae of the spinal column in a straight line. I also prefer the world of Ash trees as they are straight and erect, no messing about clogging up the skyline. When the bar reaches knee level extend your torso and stand erect with your straight down at your sides, exhaling as you do so That is to say, these feelings, shaped by biology and gravity which commit us to an upright and erect posture, have obscured some very necessary goals of architecture. Stand up straight - studies show that if you stand upright with your head erect, smile and breathe deeply, it is almost impossible to ‘feel’ depressed. She bent over, with her arm still erect, and snatched it with her other hand. It was realized that the Neandertal people, when healthy, stood straight and erect. The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture. Suddenly, I saw its myriad blades rise erect and shivering. The upright beam was held erect with guys, while the oblique arm or boom hoisted and swung the stone into position. He stood erect, his arms hanging stiffly at his sides. Synonyms upright, bolt upright, straight, vertical, perpendicular, plumb, standing up bristling, standing up, standing up on end, upright 1.1 (of the penis, clitoris, or nipples) enlarged and rigid, especially in sexual excitement. （尤指性兴奋时的阴茎，阴蒂，乳头）勃起的 Example sentencesExamples But I did notice that I was the only woman in there whose nipples were erect. Such women as these emasculate the male sexual drive, they reduce the man's erect penis to a limp one! An automatic system causes the nipple to become erect when stimulated by tactile or sexual stimuli. You can be as powerful and intelligent and as rich as you like, but if I make your penis erect, you're under my control. It seems an erect penis used in a fictionally violent manner is somehow worse than a gun used the same way. There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us. I find it ludicrous that an erect penis or penetration is still something that is not really permitted to be shown. A condom is a thin sheath, usually made out of latex, which is rolled onto an erect penis before sexual contact. The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it. It was fully erect, and standing straight out from his body. However, while I was outside yesterday, I noticed that my left nipple was particularly erect. Another effect of the treatment is erect nipples, which lasts about three to four weeks. The worn T-shirt she wore did nothing to conceal the fact that Jess was cold, her hard, erect nipples pressing against the soft cotton of her shirt. As she said this, she lifted a plasticine model of an erect penis, complete with testicles and all. Unfastening her bra he pulled it off slowly toward him, her erect nipples rubbing against the flesh of his chest. He covered her erect nipple with his mouth and watched her. She laughed at me and pulled my friend by his still totally erect penis into our bedroom. It cannot produce desire; it simply helps to make a penis erect once the desire is there. She muffled a small moan as his hand pinched her erect nipple through the dress. So I wanted her, wanted to run my tongue over those erect nipples, to play with the twin black hairs, to know what it felt like to slip inside her. A Western man in the audience could attract as much attention as an erect nipple. Synonyms engorged, enlarged, swollen, tumescent verbəˈrektəˈrɛkt [with object] 1Construct (a building, wall, or other upright structure) 建造（楼房、墙壁或其他直立的建筑物） the guest house was erected in the eighteenth century 这座宾馆是18世纪建造的。 the police had erected roadblocks 警察设置了路障。 Example sentencesExamples In the early Renaissance, the artist provided creative input, but the architect and builder were responsible for erecting a building. If you invade someone's village and start trying to erect school buildings, there are bound to be several people living there who are somewhat better qualified for the job. Before a builder can erect a house, there has to be a foundation. It had failed to prevent the builder of the flats from erecting a substandard structure… If a builder erects a structure containing a latent defect which renders it dangerous to persons or property, he will be liable in tort for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from that dangerous defect. By the end of his first term, fully five million Americans were working directly for the federal government - cleaning parks, building post offices, erecting libraries and dams. With a membership of 40 the church is prayerfully seeking a pastor and expecting to be able to erect their own church building. Fred Snowden served as business manager of a church when it was erecting a church building. Planning permission was granted in October 1999 for a development of 32 houses with detached garages and included a proposal to erect a retaining wall. While a small number of the men looked after the reindeer, the majority, including Sakariassen, were living in tents and employed in erecting the buildings of Eaton Station. The prefabricated building was erected on land beside St Nicholas Primary School on Friday after a delay of two days due to stormy weather. The afternoon would then find her in the practice yards in the drilling lines, or in the fields, erecting new buildings, or at the walls, mending a break or adding to the ever-thicker wood and stone barriers. They quickly improved trade and commerce on the islands by building new hospitals and erecting strong fortifications. Covered by wild grass, one is not supposed to erect any buildings, plant any trees nor light any fires on this 20-meter wide strip of land. At this point he was beginning to erect the walls and had paused from nailing the frame together. Greenwich Council has given the church permission to erect a new church building and a terrace of six houses. More than two-thirds of Jack's mature and sheltered garden will disappear this week when builders move in to erect a wall along Anderson's boundary. Some temples have gone so far as to stick women behind freshly erected opaque walls to separate the sexes. Earlier, she made Cheng redecorate his office, erecting a wall to separate his room from that of other aides. The bill includes the cost of erecting the various building structures as well as expenditure related to yesterday's elaborate festival programme. Synonyms build, construct, put up assemble, put up, set up, set upright, fit together, put together, piece together 1.1 Create or establish (a theory or system) 创立（理论）；建立（体制） the party that erected the welfare state 建立福利国家的政党。 Example sentencesExamples Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm. We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people. It is a rule of faith, setting boundaries without erecting unnecessary barriers. Le Tellier designed many of the reforms later carried out by Louvois; the father played the role of architect and the son of builder in erecting the edifice of French military administration. The founders of religions and philosophies erected their ethical system on this basis. The economics of spam are so favorable to spammers that no matter how high regulation erects the barrier to entering the business it wouldn't be high enough. Jesus is not a distant, indifferent ruler who erects barriers between himself and his people, as great kings and emperors have done throughout history. ‘This bill erects new barriers to lawsuits and places new burdens on the plaintiffs,’ Mr. Leahy said. But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled. We erect a barrier of fear and desire that may become difficult to break through. Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard. They were not but, your Honour, what was happening was that they were erecting a contractual system and qualifying it. The game would then be one simply of anticipating progress, and buying in its path, i.e., erecting barriers to improved land use. They were not asked to erect philosophical systems on the basis of selected premisses, but to consider the kind of truth inherent in all of them. When we deny permission by being too assiduous in erecting barriers against irresponsibility, we are also erecting barriers against the exercise of responsibility. Some even want us to erect barriers to keep jobs in the United States, even if it means curbing productivity gains. The editorial goes on to point out the value of advertising in erecting barriers to potential competition. Thus Huxley's attempt to erect a system of contractual rights in place of ‘natural rights’ must collapse. Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending. Many are likely to resist by devaluing their own currencies or erecting new barriers against U.S. goods. Synonyms establish, form, set up, put in place, found, institute, initiate, formulate, devise, create, organize, frame Origin Late Middle English: from Latin erect- ‘set up’, from the verb erigere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + regere ‘to direct’.
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