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e·rect

(ĭ-rĕkt′)

adj.

1. Being in a vertical, upright position: an erect lily stalk; an erect posture.

2. Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition, especially as the result of sexual stimulation.

tr.v. e·rect·ed, e·rect·ing, e·rects

1. To construct by assembling: erect a skyscraper.

2. To raise to a rigid or upright condition.

3. To fix in an upright position.

4. To set up; establish: erect a dynasty.

5. Mathematics To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.

[Middle English, from Latin ērēctus, past participle of ērigere, to set up : ē-, ex-, ex- + regere, to guide; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

e·rect′a·ble adj.

e·rect′ly adv.

e·rect′ness n.

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Adv.

erectly - in a straight-backed manner; "the old man still walks erectly"

straight-backed

Translations

بانْتِصاب

med rank holdning

aufrecht

kiegyenesedve

upprétt

eretto (in modo eretto)in verticale rizzato verticale (in verticale)

vzpriamene

dik dimdik

直立地

erectly

[ɪˈrektlɪ] ADV → erguidamente

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erectly

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erect

(iˈrekt) adjective

upright. He held his head erect.

verb

1. to set up; to put up or to build. They erected a statue in his memory; They plan to erect an office block there.

2. to set upright (a mast etc).

eˈrection (-ʃən) noun

eˈrectly adverb

eˈrectness noun

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straight-backed

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In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon her long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one sufficient steed.

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She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place -- a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses.

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What was true of this white man's head, so recently alive and erectly dominant, Bashti knew was true of himself.

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While they were waiting in the anteroom there entered from another apartment a young man uniformed similarly to the others with the exception that upon his head was a fillet of gold, in the front of which a single parrot feather rose erectly above his forehead.

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Without suggestion, patients began to sit, walk and stand more erectly. Within the first 5 to 10 minutes, the color of the hands and feet might change from a sallow yellow to a healthy pinkish or ruddy color, and the hands and feet are frequently subjectively and objectively warmer.

Avoiding Joint Replacement Therapy by Eliminating Osteoarthritis Pain: The Research of William Kaufman, PhD, MD

It probably has ebbed but it has not really ebbed that much in such a way that we can sit erectly and say, 'work has been done',' Morales said.