Word Meanings - PREERECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To erect beforehand.
Related words: (words related to PREERECT)
- ERECT
Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. (more info) 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape, - ERECTILITY
The quality or state of being erectile. - ERECTIVE
Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect. - BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation, - ERECTO-PATENT
Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading. - ERECTLY
In an erect manner or posture. - ERECTOR
A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects. - ERECTNESS
Uprightness of posture or form. - ERECTER
An erector; one who raises or builds. - ERECTABLE
Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu. - ERECTION
The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue. (more info) 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, - ERECTILE
Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue , a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains. - PREERECT
To erect beforehand. - REERECT
To erect again.