Erect vs Cause - What's the difference?
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Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
* Gibbon
Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
(obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
* Keble
(obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
* Alexander Pope
Watchful; alert.
* Hooker
(heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
To cause to stand up or out.
To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
* Daniel
* Dryden
To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
* Barrow
(astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
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To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* John Locke
To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
* Hooker
The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
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, title= A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
(obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vii. 12
(obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
* Shakespeare
(legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
To set off an event or action.
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To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
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, title= To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
Erect is a related term of cause.
As verbs the difference between erect and cause
is that erect is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts while cause is .As an adjective erect
is upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.erect
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
- But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
- His piercing eyes, erect , appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
- vigilant and erect attention of mind
Antonyms
* flaccidDerived terms
* erection * semierectVerb
- to erect a house or a fort
- to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
- that didst his state above his hopes erect
- I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
- It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
- 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 erect conclusions.
- Malebranche erects this proposition.
- to erect a new commonwealth
Synonyms
* buildAnagrams
* *cause
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her wedding will be cause for celebration.
- They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- God befriend us, as our cause is just.
- The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause .
- I did it not for his cause .
- What counsel give you in this weighty cause ?
Synonyms
* (source or reason) reason, sourceDerived terms
* because * causal * causality * causative * cause celebre * efficient cause * final cause * for cause (law) * formal cause * material causeSee also
* effectVerb
(caus)- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
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- I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
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- (Spenser)