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Erect vs Mounting - What's the difference?

erect | mounting |

As adjectives the difference between erect and mounting

is that erect is upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards while mounting is that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.

As verbs the difference between erect and mounting

is that erect is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts while mounting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun mounting is

something mounted; an attachment.

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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    mounting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
    • mounting debts

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something mounted; an attachment.
  • The act of one who mounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.