Erect vs Raise - 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
(label) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
# To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
#* Bible, (w) xxxix. 3
# To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
# (label) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
# (label) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
# (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
(label) To create, increase or develop.
# To collect.
# To bring up; to grow; to promote.
# To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
# (label) To create; to constitute (a use , or a beneficial interest in property).
# (label) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
#* Bible, (w) xviii. 18.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
(label) To exponentiate, to involute.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
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To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
(US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
(poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
In obsolete terms the difference between erect and raise
is that erect is directed upward; raised; uplifted while raise is to bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.In transitive terms the difference between erect and raise
is that erect is to cause to stand up or out while raise is to create, increase or develop.As an adjective erect
is upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.As a noun raise is
an increase in wages or salary; a rise UK.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
* *raise
English
Verb
(rais)- I will raise forts against thee.
- I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
- God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Synonyms
* liftDerived terms
* raise Cain * raise fire * raise one's eyebrows * raise someone's consciousness * raise the alarm * raise the roof * raised by wolves * raised in a barnNoun
(en noun)- The boss gave me a raise .