(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.
Shower
Definition:
(n.) One who shows or exhibits.
(n.) That which shows; a mirror.
(n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
(n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
(n.) A copious supply bestowed.
(v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
(v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
(v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(2) The weather forecast in Warsaw is for some showers on Wednesday, though Roy Hodgson has expressed concern over the time it will take to repair the surface, which was relaid only last week at a cost of £115,000 and was criticised after last Friday's friendly against South Africa.
(3) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
(4) Anatomical results have been gratifying in that most patients are totally rehabilitated and may swim or shower without restrictions.
(5) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
(6) One of the biggest surprises was learning how small direct use of water for drinking, cooking and showering is by comparison.
(7) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
(8) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(9) Every single one of life's daily routines takes twice, if not four times, as long as it used to, from getting through the shower to putting on shoes.
(10) Aware of the thousands of homeless individuals in the city without sufficient access to shower facilities, Doniece Sandoval decided to transform a donated bus into shower suites for people who don’t have their own .
(11) It is dirty and it is cold, he can’t even have a shower.
(12) At Conquest hospital in East Sussex, call bells were out of the reach of patients and nurses said they did not always have time to shower patients or wash their hair.
(13) If I’d known the way United were going to treat me at the end I would have gone abroad when I had the opportunity.” Keane offered another insight into his personality when he reflected on a 7-1 defeat at Everton during his time in charge at Sunderland , a result that left him unable to leave his house for four days, staying in his bed for 48 hours and not even showering.
(14) Will described how patients who receive a negative test result after recovering from Ebola are showered, given a fresh set of clothes, a certificate declaring they are Ebola-free and a small amount of money for the ride home.
(15) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(16) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.
(17) The former first lady’s relationship with Williams is also an important because prosecutors have said Williams was not so much a personal friend but a businessman who showered the McDonnells with cash and gifts because he wanted their help in establishing legitimacy for his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc.
(18) Former Lindt employee Jarrod Morton-Hoffman has described how hostages were fired at and showered in glass as they fled in the final minutes of the December 2014 siege of the Lindt cafe.
(19) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(20) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.