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e·rect       (ĭ-rěkt')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Being in a vertical, upright position: an erect lily stalk; an erect posture.
  2. Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.
  3. Archaic Wide-awake; alert.

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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erecting

noun
the act of building or putting up 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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