What's the difference between erect and niche?

Erect


Definition:

  • (a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
  • (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  • (a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  • (a.) Watchful; alert.
  • (a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
  • (a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  • (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  • (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
  • (v. i.) To rise upright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (2) The effect of aspirin on the development of hypercoagulability in the penile blood during erection was studied in five Chacma baboons.
  • (3) Many failures of spontaneous erection will, however, respond to intracavernous injection of vasoactive agents postoperatively.
  • (4) Supine and erect blood pressure (sphygmomanometer) measurements and side effects were noted at the same times.
  • (5) Morphine (0.1 to 5 micrograms), but not U-69,593 (5 micrograms), injected into the PVN 10 minutes before oxytocin or apomorphine, was found to be able to prevent penile erection and yawning induced by the unilateral PVN microinjection of oxytocin (10 ng) or apomorphine (50 ng).
  • (6) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (7) The initial dosage in pharmacological erection therapy may be adjusted according to these risk factors.
  • (8) Significantly, more of the patients aged below 30 years reported erection sufficient for coitus (p less than 0.05).
  • (9) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
  • (10) Apomorphine (Apo), a short acting dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion, decreases prolactin secretion, induces yawning, penile erections and other physiological effects in man.
  • (11) This experimental model excludes the interference of subjective factors, such as erotic stimuli and libido on erection, and it seems that androgen deficiency has a direct effect on the neurophysiology of the erectile tissues resulting in a higher tonus of the detumescence factors, which can be explained by an incomplete relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle.
  • (12) The patients were seen after a sustained erection of 20 hours maximum on 15 occasions and one patient was seen after a sustained erection of 36 hours.
  • (13) Fifty patients were studied with erect films at excretory urography.
  • (14) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
  • (15) Patients showing a complete erection had their intrapenial blood volumes 4.2-11.2 times greater than before VSS (mean increase, 8.0 times).
  • (16) In nine normal subjects duplicate measurements were made in the erect (seated), supine, and lateral decubitus posture, at a constant tidal volume (700 ml) and frequency (1 Hz) starting from functional residual capacity (FRC).
  • (17) Erections were induced by cavernous nerve stimulation before and after atropine.
  • (18) In the light of previously published advice and reports, the experience gained from these two cases now dictates that investigation of an unexplained death occurring after exposure to, and change from, hyperbaric or hypobaric conditions, should begin with plain erect chest radiography on the body before autopsy.
  • (19) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
  • (20) Contraction of the ischiocavernosus muscles occluded the arterial inflow and venous outflow to the CCP, making it a closed system during peak erection.

Niche


Definition:

  • (n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
  • (2) "We're not saying we're cutting niche parts," he said.
  • (3) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
  • (4) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
  • (5) Namely: it takes one small, heavily publicised niche – affluent, usually white LGBTs – and presents them as representative of a whole spectrum of people.
  • (6) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
  • (7) The diversity of lake phytoplankton is unexpectedly high, since the epilimnion of a lake is continuously mixing and might be expected to have only one or at most a few niches for primary producers.
  • (8) The massive otosclerotic focus, obliterating the oval window niche, has a relatively high case incidence of 11-2 per cent in South Australia.
  • (9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
  • (10) -- (2) Nothing is known about a niche overlap of Austromenopon and Actornithophilus.
  • (11) The fundamental criterion was the size of the niche as established by radiologic examination.
  • (12) And because the market is expanding, ironically consoles may even have a larger customer base thanks to tablets and mobile devices: in a broader market, the 10% slice may end up bigger than the 100% slice of a smaller, niche market.
  • (13) The existence of equilibria at which there is no genetic load is examined.--The absolute fitness of any genotype is regarded as a function of location in the niche space and the population density at that location.
  • (14) Apparently the same SC system is adaptive in diverse species despite the very different behavioral repertories of these animals and their different ecological niches.
  • (15) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (16) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
  • (17) The oval window niche was filled with either 1 percent sodium hyaluronate or 0.9 percent NaCl.
  • (18) Furthermore, taking account of the visual system of certain species from other orders, it is assumed that the cytoarchitecture of the visual system is dependent more upon the ecological niche than on systematics.
  • (19) Revision of the left niche was undertaken shortly after the 5th bleeding two months postoperatively.
  • (20) A reimbursement system designed to encourage competition led to a "survival-of-the-fittest" mentality that prompted many managers to develop "competitive strategies" and look for "niche opportunities."