Erection

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Erection \E*rec"tion\, n. [L. erectio: cf. F. ['e]rection.]
     1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of
        constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting
        together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding
        or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the
        act of rousing to excitement or courage.


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     2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established,
        or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
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              Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws
              up.                                   --Sidney
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     3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
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     4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
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     5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having
        been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation
        of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the
        penis; as, to get or have an erection.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  erection
       n 1: an erect penis [syn: {hard-on}]
       2: a structure that has been erected
       3: the act of building or putting up [syn: {erecting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "erection":
     Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, apotheosis, architecture,
     ascent, assembly, assumption, beatification, building,
     canonization, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, composition,
     construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house,
     country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation,
     dacha, deanery, deification, devising, dwelling house, edifice,
     elaboration, elevation, embassy, enshrinement, erecting,
     escalation, establishment, exaltation, extraction, fabric,
     fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashioning, formation, forming,
     formulation, framing, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork,
     harvesting, heaving up, height, house, houseboat, lake dwelling,
     lifting, living machine, lodge, lofting, machining, making,
     manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining,
     molding, packaged house, parsonage, penthouse, pile, prefab,
     prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation,
     presidential palace, processing, producing, pyramid, raising,
     ranch house, rearing, rectory, refining, roof, shaping, skyscraper,
     smelting, sod house, split-level, standing on end, structure,
     superstructure, sursum corda, tower, town house, upbuoying, upcast,
     upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, upthrow,
     upthrust, vicarage, workmanship