erect

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Being in a vertical, upright position.
• adjective Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.
• transitive verb To construct by assembling.
• transitive verb To raise to a rigid or upright condition.
• transitive verb To fix in an upright position.
• transitive verb To set up; establish.
• transitive verb Mathematics To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Having an upright posture; standing; directed upward; raised; uplifted.
• Specifically— In heraldry, set vertically in some unusual way: thus, a boar's head charged with the muzzle or snout uppermost, pointing to the top of the field, is said to be erect.
• In botany, vertical throughout; not spreading or declined; upright: as, an erect stem; an erect leaf or ovule.
• In entomology, upright: applied to hairs, spines, etc., when they are nearly but not quite at right angles to the surface or margin on which they are situated. In this sense distinguished from perpendicular or vertical.
• Hence Upright and firm; bold.
• Intent; alert.
• To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular position; set up; raise up: as, to erect a telegraph-pole or a flagstaff.
• To raise, as a building; build; construct: as, to erect a house or a temple; to erect a fort.
• To set up or establish; found; form; frame: as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.
• To raise from a lower level or condition to a higher; elevate; exalt; lift up.
• To animate; encourage.
• To advance or set forth; propound.
• To draw, as a figure, upon a base; construct, as a figure: as, to erect a horoscope; to erect a circle on a given line as a semidiameter; to erect a perpendicular to a line from a given point in the line.
• 2 and Construct, build, institute, establish, plant.
• 1 and Elevate. See raise.
• To take an upright position; rise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone.
• adjective Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
• adjective Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
• adjective Watchful; alert.
• adjective (Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
• adjective (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
• intransitive verb obsolete To rise upright.
• transitive verb To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise
• transitive verb To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; ; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
• transitive verb To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
• transitive verb To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
• transitive verb To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
• transitive verb To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
• transitive verb (Mach.) a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
• adjective Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
• verb transitive To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
• verb transitive To cause to stand up or out.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to rise up
• adjective of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
• verb construct, build, or erect
• adjective upright in position or posture