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Erected vs Built - What's the difference?

erected | built |

As verbs the difference between erected and built

is that erected is (erect) while built is (build).

As an adjective built is

(informal) well-built.

As a noun built is

(obsolete) shape; build; form of structure.

erected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (erect)

    • erect

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  • * Gibbon
    • Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
  • Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
  • (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  • * Keble
    • But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
  • (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • His piercing eyes, erect , appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
  • Watchful; alert.
  • * Hooker
    • vigilant and erect attention of mind
  • (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

    • Antonyms

    * flaccid

    Derived terms

    * erection * semierect

    Related terms

    * erection * erectile

    Verb

  • To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
    • to erect a house or a fort
  • To cause to stand up or out.
  • To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
    • to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
  • To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  • * Daniel
    • that didst his state above his hopes erect
  • * Dryden
    • I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
  • To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  • * Barrow
    • It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
  • (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
    • In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
  • To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • to erect conclusions.
  • * John Locke
    • Malebranche erects this proposition.
  • To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
  • * Hooker
    • to erect a new commonwealth

    Synonyms

    * build

    Anagrams

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    built

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) well-built

    • Derived terms

    * built like a brick shithouse * built like a tank * well-built

    Verb

    (head)
  • (build)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
    • the built of a ship
  • * 1764 , , Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense :
    • The sailor sees the burthen, the built , and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off.

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