Usually means: Builds or constructs something upright.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. erects: Merriam-Webster
  2. erects: Collins English Dictionary
  3. erects: Vocabulary.com
  4. erects: Wordnik
  5. erects: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. erects: Wiktionary
  7. erects: Dictionary.com
  8. erects: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. erects: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. erects: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. erects: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erects: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erects: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (erect)

adjective:  Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
adjective:  (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
adjective:  (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
adjective:  (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
adjective:  Watchful; alert.
adjective:  (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
verb:  To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
verb:  (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
verb:  (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
verb:  (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
verb:  (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
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