Erect
English Meaning
Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
- Being in a vertical, upright position: an erect lily stalk; an erect posture.
- Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.
- Archaic Wide-awake; alert.
- To construct by assembling: erect a skyscraper.
- To raise to a rigid or upright condition.
- To fix in an upright position.
- To set up; establish: erect a dynasty.
- Mathematics To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.