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Erect is a related term of fashion.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between erect and fashion

is that erect is (obsolete) directed upward; raised; uplifted while fashion is (obsolete) to forge or counterfeit.

As verbs the difference between erect and fashion

is that erect is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts while fashion is to make, build or construct.

As an adjective erect

is upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

As a noun fashion is

(countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

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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    fashion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia fashion)
  • (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • (uncountable) Popular trends.
  • * John Locke
    • the innocent diversions in fashion
  • * H. Spencer
    • As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
  • (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
  • * 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
    • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}
  • The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
    • the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  • * Bible, Luke ix. 29
    • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do not like the fashion of your garments.
  • (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
    • men of fashion

    Derived terms

    * fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashion

    Related terms

    * fact * faction * factor * factorial * factory

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, build or construct.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
  • * 2005 , :
    • a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
  • (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
  • * John Locke
    • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  • (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
  • * Spenser
    • Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
  • (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * refashion

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