erecting [
ɪ'rɛkt]
[计] 安装, 设立
erecting[ noun ]
the act of building or putting up
<noun.act>
Erect \E*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Erected}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Erecting}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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. --Dryden.
4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a
loving complaisance. --Barrow.
5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or
the like. ``To erect conclusions.'' --Sir T. Browne.
``Malebranche erects this proposition.'' --Locke.
6. 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.
erecting \erecting\ n.
the act of building or putting up.
Syn: erection.
[WordNet 1.5]
- Rather than erecting trade barriers, the U.S. should work to reduce its budget deficit and increase savings and education, the study said.
- He was sentenced in June to 10 months in jail after conviction on charges of erecting road barriers.
- For at least the next decade, Ms. Russell says, the emphasis will be not on erecting new buildings but on renovating existing ones.
- Other Poles interviewed suggested erecting monuments to Stalinist victims.
- Reagan promoted the project as a way of rendering nuclear weapons obsolete, but the Bush administration has abandoned the idea of erecting an impenetrable antimissile shield.
- The INS began erecting tents at its rural Port Isabel Service Processing Center here in case the number of detainees at the facility exceeds bed space.
- They appeared on the streets after armed Sandinista supporters began erecting barricades.
- Grading work disturbed the ground and placement of centuries-old bone and pottery fragments as did years of erecting tents and building fire rings, he said.
- Some Israeli lawmakers accused the government of risking U.S. aid for the absorption of Soviet immigrants by erecting new apartments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Instead, Pulsifer will team up with the Romanian national soccer team, serving as a team sponsor and erecting billboards in its home stadium.
- Besides failing to obtain all necessary local permits for erecting the tank, Ashland said it failed to fill the tank with water before use, a test recommended by the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group.
- In 1750, Britain prohibited Americans from erecting any mill for rolling or slitting iron; William Pitt exclaimed, "It is forbidden to make even a nail for a horseshoe."
- Now, the 1,900-employee company has a seven-building campus at Orem's Timpanogos Research Park, just a few miles from BYU, and is erecting two more buildings at the site.
- In other developments Saturday, security forces began erecting a five-foot barbed-wire fence around most of the KTC squatter camp outside Cape Town.
- Reagan went to extraordinary lengths to praise the Soviet leader, seemingly absolving the Kremlin leadership for erecting barriers to emigration.
- "But there are going to be a lot of people who are going to learn a lot of this stuff soon." Since prices began tumbling at the start of the year, securities firms here have been erecting systems to guard against losses from speculators.
- Hundreds of thousands filled the streets of Caracas, erecting barricades, burning cars and looting hundreds of stores.
- About 400 police cleared the square in the early evening, but demonstrators regrouped after police left and again took over the square, this time erecting fences along the sides.
- Korean exporters envision new markets in Communist countries at a time when they see Western trading partners erecting protectionist walls.
- Guenther Agde, a former inmate, came up with the idea of erecting a monument to the victims of Stalinism at the well-tended camp 21 miles north of Berlin.
- In his final years, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has turned his agile mind to erecting intellectual rationalizations for leaving his city-state a legacy of autocracy.
- He said two important measures include cracking down on alcohol on the beach and erecting walls along the Strip to separate pedestrians from motorists.
- We should aim at removing barriers not at erecting them," he told The Associated Press.
- "They've been mainly concerned with erecting long-span, column-free decks with good sight lines.
- South Korea and the European Community were accused by the administration a year ago of erecting unfair barriers that discriminate against the sale of U.S. telecommunications products and services.
- After news of the death spread in Nablus, Palestinian youths took to the streets, erecting barricades of burning tires and throwing stones at soldiers, an Arab reporter said.
- Radio Metropole, an independent station, said 300 demonstrators supporting the Leopards paraded down Delmas Road shouting anti-government slogans, demanding Avril resign and erecting barricades of flaming tires.