Erected vs Erection - What's the difference?
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(erect)
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
(uncountable) The act of building]] or putting up or together of something; construction. [[File:Marquee,_Throope_Manor_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1491075.jpg, thumb, Erection of a large tent
(countable) Anything erected or built.
(uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
* 1997 , Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law , Princeton University Press (1997), ISBN 9781400822317,
* 2006 , Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women , Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269,
* 2007 , Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750 , University of Nevada Press (2007), ISBN 9780874176995,
(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
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* 2008 , Robert Crooks & Karla Baur, Our Sexuality , Thomson Wadsworth (2008), ISBN 9780495095545,
* 2011 , Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies , Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2008), ISBN 9780470270868,
(countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
* 2002 , Marguerite Crump, No B.O.!: The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens , Free Spirit Publishing (2005), ISBN 9781575427003,
* 2006 , Abha Dawesar, That Summer in Paris , Anchor Books (2007), ISBN 9780307275455,
* 2007 , Ken Follett, World Without End , Dutton (2007), ISBN 9780525950073,
As a verb erected
is (erect).As a noun erection is
erection.erected
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Verb
(head)erect
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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
* *erection
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(wikipedia erection)Noun
- The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection .
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- I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
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- There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
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- A marriage was only consummated via erection , penetration, and insemination intra vas .
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- Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
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- A very rare complication is priapism , where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.
- He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection .
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- The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections , even when you don't want them—like during school.
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- Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time
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- He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection .