Definition of Erect

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Definition of Erect

Erect

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

Watchful; alert.

Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.

To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

To rise upright.

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Erect Quotations

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mohandas Gandhi

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Douglas Horton

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
Charles Lyell

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman

Erect Translations

erect in Dutch is oprichten, stichten, inrichten
erect in Finnish is perustaa
erect in German is errichten
erect in Italian is rizzare, ergere
erect in Latin is condo, molior
erect in Portuguese is ereto
erect in Spanish is erecto, enderezar, establecer, edificar

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