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S vs Erect - What's the difference?

s | erect |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

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.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    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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