Crossword clues for erected
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erect \E*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erected; p. pr. & vb. n. Erecting.]
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.
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.
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To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
That didst his state above his hopes erect.
--Daniel.I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
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To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
--Barrow. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. ``To erect conclusions.''
--Sir T. Browne. ``Malebranche erects this proposition.''
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To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. ``To erect a new commonwealth.''
--Hooker.Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.
Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: erect)
Usage examples of "erected".
America were erected on Manhattan Island in the year 1633 by a governor of the Dutch West India Company.
In buildings erected for manufacturing and similar purposes, and in engineering works where the greatest degree of strength and compactness is considered of the highest importance, English bond should have the preference.
The great girder bridges over the Menai Strait and at Saltash near Plymouth, erected in the middle of the 19th century, were entirely of wrought iron, and subsequently wrought iron girder bridges were extensively used on railways.
In 1860 a bridge was erected over the Danube canal at Vienna, of 264 ft.
The bridge was constructed in 1888 by the Phoenix Bridge Company, and was erected on staging.
The side spans are erected first on staging and anchored to the piers.
Such a bridge was the Wearmouth bridge, designed by Rowland Burdon and erected in 1793-1796, with a span of 235 ft.
Southwark bridge over the Thames, designed by John Rennie with cast iron ribs and erected in 1814-1819, has a centre span of 240 ft.
When such a rib is erected on centering without initial stress, the subsequent compression of the arch under its weight inflicts a bending stress and excess of compression in the upper member at the crown.
Bridges of this type have been erected at Portugalete, Bizerta, Rouen, Rochefort and more recently across the Mersey between the towns of Widnes and Runcorn.
If the bridge is erected when the river is nearly dry a travelling stage may be constructed to carry the projecting end of the girder while it is hauled across, the other end resting on one abutment.
In bridges so erected the straining action during erection must be studied, and material must be added to resist erecting stresses.
The great cantilever bridges have been erected in the same way, and they are specially adapted for erection by building out.
He was given an honorary degree of the university of Oxford in 1886, and in 1888 a statue of him was erected at Birmingham.
John Hodgson and Bruce, the local authorities of the 19th century, supposed that it was erected to defend the wall from southern insurgents.