Definition of "erect" in Anglais

adjective

1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

2. (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.

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

3. (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.

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

4. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

5. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

6. Watchful; alert.

7. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

verb

1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

   • to erect a house or a fort

2. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

   • , Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.

5. (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

6. (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).

7. (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.

8. (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.

9. (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

   • In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.