transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪrekt ]
( erects, erecting, erected)
1.
If people erect something such as a building, bridge, or barrier, they build it or create it. ( FORMAL )
Opposition demonstrators have erected barricades in roads leading to the parliament building...
The building was erected in 1900-1901...
We all unconsciously erect barriers against intimacy.
= construct
VERB : V n , V n , V n
2.
If you erect a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it.
Japanese proprietors are erecting a complex infrastructure of political influence throughout America...
He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
VERB : V n , V n
3.
People or things that are erect are straight and upright.
Stand reasonably erect, your arms hanging naturally...
ADJ