資料來源 : pyDict
直立,豎起,建築物
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established,
or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws
up. --Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
5. (Physiol.) The state of a part which, from having been
soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of
blood in the erectile tissue.
資料來源 : WordNet®
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}]