erectadj詞源 1/ɪˈɹɛkt/

• 1

  Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

  • Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
• 2

  Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.

  • The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
  • erect nipples
• 3

  Having an erect penis or clitoris.

  • OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!
• 4

  obsoleteBold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

  • But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
• 5

  obsoleteDirected upward; raised; uplifted.

  • His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
• 6

  Watchful; alert.

  • vigilant and erect attention of mind
• 7

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

erectverb詞源 2/ɪˈɹɛkt/

• 1

  To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

  • to erect a house or a fort
• 2

  To cause to stand up or out.

• 3

  To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

  • to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
• 4

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

  • As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.
• 5

  To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

  • that didst his state above his hopes erect
  • , Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
• 6

  To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

  • It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
• 7

  astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismTo cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).

  • In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
• 8

  To enter a state of physiological erection.

  • On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
  • On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.