Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the act of building or putting up.
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- verb Present participle of
erect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of building or putting up
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Examples
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Many mosque opponents tried to draw a similarity between the Manhattan debacle and what they described as erecting a WWII Japanese memorial in Pearl Harbor.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain: The Case for the Mosque, Mohammed Cartoons, And Freedom... 2010
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Many mosque opponents tried to draw a similarity between the Manhattan debacle and what they described as erecting a WWII Japanese memorial in Pearl Harbor.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain: The Case for the Mosque, Mohammed Cartoons, And Freedom... Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010
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It's meant to encourage truly undisciplined approaches to making and circulating culture by ignoring disciplines that have invested so much in erecting boundaries between pragmatics and imagination.
Science Fiction Doesn't Predict the Future, It Shapes It 2009
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I could not but be sensible that my existence was spared solely because of my diligence in erecting the pyramid and so doubling the stature of the island.
Chapter 19 2010
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“I am not interested in erecting a building,” he once wrote, “but in … presenting to myself the foundations of all possible buildings.”
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Whether or not private business and state government should be allowed to collaborate in erecting an apartheid social system is not a big deal.
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I could not but be sensible that my existence was spared solely because of my diligence in erecting the pyramid and so doubling the stature of the island.
Chapter 19 2010
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The near-perfect between these two quacks of the “left” and “right” in erecting their straw men to diss Obama is remarkable. brucds Says:
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“I am not interested in erecting a building,” he once wrote, “but in … presenting to myself the foundations of all possible buildings.”
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An erector is a building contracting firm that specializes in erecting steel framed buildings; usually high rise buildings.
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