Erection
[ɪ'rekʃ(ə)n] or [ɪ'rɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a structure that has been erected.
(noun.) an erect penis.
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Definition
(n.) The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
(n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
(n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
(n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.
(n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Erecting, setting upright.[2]. Raising, building, constructing.[3]. Building, structure, edifice.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ERECT]
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Examples
- Orders began to flow in, and Watt had his hands full in traveling about the country superintending the erection of his steam-engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His little school, his little church, his little parsonage, all owed their erection to him; and they did him credit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The work was accomplished by the erection of a vast rigid stage of timber, on which the tubes were built up plate by plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That tall erection of the Wynnes would screen us completely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For the erection of these heavy plates, a hydraulic swinging arm, called the Erector, is mounted, either on the shield itself or on an independent erector platform, according to conditions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Curves were modified, and grades eliminated where possible by the erection of numerous trestles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When subscriptions were opened for the erection and endowment of the Pasteur Institute, a sum of 2,586,680 francs was received in contributions from many different parts of the world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Among other works of art in which he was engaged, he had projected the erection of a national gallery for statues and pictures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In various ways there was a continual slow and steady growth of the industry thus created, necessitating the erection of many additional buildings as the years passed by. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By his own unassisted efforts he begged all the money for all his erections. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Every picture of a town of the sixteenth or later centuries shows conspicuously these latter erections for the protection and honour of the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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