Usually means: Raise or set upright; construct.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. erect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. erect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erect, erect: Wordnik
  7. erect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erect: Wiktionary
  9. erect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erect: Dictionary.com
  13. erect (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. erect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Erect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. erect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. erect: Rhymezone
  18. erect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. erect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. erect: Free Dictionary
  21. erect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. erect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. erect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. erect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ERECT: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Erect: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

(Note: See erectable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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