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ERECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of building or putting up
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("erection" is a kind of...):
building; construction (the act of constructing something)
Derivation:
erect (construct, build, or erect)
erect (cause to rise up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A structure that has been erected
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("erection" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Derivation:
erect (construct, build, or erect)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An erect penis
Synonyms:
erection; hard-on
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("erection" is a kind of...):
sexual arousal (the arousal of sexual desires in preparation for sexual behavior)
Context examples:
It is when a man has trouble getting or keeping an erection.
(Erectile Dysfunction, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
The erection of the monument itself could not in the smallest degree affect her doubts of Mrs. Tilney's actual decease.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The inhibition of cGMP degradation results in prolonged muscle relaxation, vasodilation, and blood engorgement of the corpus cavernosa, thereby prolonging penile erection.
(Avanafil, NCI Thesaurus)
Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But I shall not anticipate the reader with further descriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It led to nothing; nothing but a view at the end over a low stone wall with high pillars, which seemed intended, in their erection, to give the appearance of an approach to the house, which never had been there.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had proposed to spend one half the money it had cost, on the erection of an industrial school for the young, or a house of refuge for the deserving old.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
