Erect vs Foretop - What's the difference?
erect | foretop |
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.).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
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
(obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
(obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
(obsolete) In the phrase, to take time'' (or ''occasion'' or ''opportunity'') ''by the foretop , meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
(obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
An erect tuft of hair.
The forelock of a horse.
(nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between erect and foretop
is that erect is (obsolete) directed upward; raised; uplifted while foretop is (obsolete) a fop; one who sports a foretop.As an adjective erect
is upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.As a verb erect
is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.As a noun foretop is
(obsolete) the top of the head; the top of the forehead.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