Erect vs Originate - 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.).
* 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
To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.
*1998 , James Hebert, "Banderas puts his mark on 'Zorro'", San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Jul 1998:
*:For the first time since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. originated the role in the 1920 silent "The Mark of Zorro," the hero will be played by a Hispanic actor.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 171:
*:The financial backers who originated the Encyclopédie project in 1745 had no idea about what they were getting into.
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To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to , be derived ((from), (with)).
Erect is a related term of originate.
In lang=en terms the difference between erect and originate
is that erect is to cause to stand up or out while originate is to come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to , be derived ((from), (with)).As verbs the difference between erect and originate
is that erect is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts while originate is to cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate.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
* *originate
English
Verb
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- The scheme originated with the governor and council.