erecting

3 definitions found

erecting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Erect \E*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erected; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Erecting.]
     1. 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.
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     2. 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.
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     3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
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              That didst his state above his hopes erect.
                                                    --Daniel.
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              I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a
              judge.                                --Dryden.
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     4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
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              It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a
              loving complaisance.                  --Barrow.
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     5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or
        the like. "To erect conclusions." --Sir T. Browne.
        "Malebranche erects this proposition." --Locke.
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     6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
        "To erect a new commonwealth." --Hooker.
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     Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as
        engines, are put together and adjusted.
  
     Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute;
          establish; found.
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  erecting \erecting\ n.
     the act of building or putting up.
  
     Syn: erection.
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erecting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  erecting
      n 1: the act of building or putting up [syn: erecting,
           erection]