erect

adj.笔直的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
erect (adjective)
1.
a) vertical in position , also not spread out or decumbent - an erect plant stem columns still erect in the ruins
b) standing up or out from the body - erect hairs
c) characterized by firm or rigid straightness in bodily posture - an erect bearing
2.
archaic directed upward
3.
obsolete - alert watchful
4.
being in a state of physiological - erection
erect (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) (1) to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts - build
(2) to fix in an upright position
(3) to cause to stand up or stand out
b) archaic to direct upward
c) to change (an image) from an inverted to a normal position
2.
to elevate in status
3.
- set up establish
4.
obsolete - encourage embolden
5.
to draw or construct (as a perpendicular or figure) upon a given base
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
erect (adjective)
rising straight up
SYNONYMS:
perpendicular, plumb, raised, standing, stand-up, upright, upstanding, vertical
RELATED WORDS:
elevated, lifted, upended, upraised; semierect; freestanding, stand-alone
NEAR ANTONYMS:
prostrate, supine; diagonal, hanging, sagging, slant, slanted, slanting, slanty
flat, recumbent
erect (verb)
1.
to fix in an upright position
SYNONYMS:
pitch, put up, raise, rear, set up, upend, upraise
RELATED WORDS:
brace, buttress, prop (up), shore (up), support; boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, up, uphold, uplift
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, flatten, knock down, level, raze, tear down
erect (verb)
2.
to form by putting together parts or materials
SYNONYMS:
assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
RELATED WORDS:
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck; blow up, explode; detach, disengage; disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down
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