Word Finder - erections

definition

The act of building or putting up or together of something.

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• building
• construction

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Anything erected or built.

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The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.

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• building
• construction

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The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.

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(of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.

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A penis or clitoris that is erect.

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He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.

Similar ruins to those of Casas Grandes exist near the Gila, the Salinas, and the Colorado and it is probable that they are all the erections of one people.

On several occasions concordats have established a new division of dioceses, and provided that future erections or divisions should be made by a common accord.

By coming in contact with over-bridges or erections on the sides of the line 12.

The Conveyancing Act 1881 provides that, as regards conveyances subsequent to 1881, unless a contrary intention is expressed, a lease of " land " is to be deemed to include all buildings, fixtures, easements, &c., appertaining to it; and, if there are houses or other buildings on the land demised, all out-houses, erections, &c., are to pass with the lease of the land.

The most remarkable consist of long avenues of menhirs or standing stones; but there is also a profusion of other erections, such as dolmens and barrows, throughout the whole district.

Of the more recent erections in the town, mention may be made of the granite obelisk in memory of General Sir 'Thomas Picton (1758-1815) and the bronze statue of General Sir William Nott (1784-1846).

The desolation of the city is probably due to earthquake; and the absence of Moslem erections or restorations seems to show that the disaster took place before the Mahommedan period.

Many of the commercial and private buildings are also worthy of notice, especially the Queensland National Bank, a classic Italian structure, the massive treasury buildings, one of the largest erections in Australia, the Queensland Club with its wide colonnades in Italian Renaissance style, and the great buildings of the Brisbane Newspaper Company.

Its ramparts and fine buildings were partly destroyed by the Alamanni and Visigoths, and partly ruined by the erections of the middle ages.

The town hall and the university buildings, dating from 1712 and restored in 1886, are commonplace erections; but to the south of the Ludwigsplatz, upon which most of the academical buildings lie, stands the new university library, a handsome structure of pink sandstone in German Renaissance style.

Of modern erections the new cathedral (Dom), on the Spree, which replaces the old building pulled down in 1893, stands first.

Of the recent erections, the polytechnic, the exchange, the monument of the German writer, Johann Gottfried von Herder, who lived at Riga towards the end of the 18th century, the gymnasiums (schools) of Lomonosov and Alexander I.

Stretching in a semicircle round the broad campus are the library, the medical building, the biology building and museum, the school of practical science, the geology and chemistry buildings and the convocation hall, their architecture varying very greatly, beauty having been sacrificed to more practical considerations; the magnetic observatory is also in the grounds, but is overshadowed by some of the more recent erections.

Of modern erections, the concert hall, the law courts and a memorial fountain to the cartographer Gerhard Kremer (Mercator) are worthy of mention.

Sergius and Bacchus (Kutchuk Aya Sofia) and St Sophia are erections of Justinian the Great.

It causes penile erections by dilating blood vessels, and controls the action of almost every orifice from swallowing to defecation.

Numbers needed to treat for improved erections were 2.6 for tadalafil 10 mg and 2.0 for tadalafil 20 mg.

In the past, a man with impotence who was able to have nighttime or early morning erections was thought to have psychogenic impotence.

Young men will notice that they've filled out more and that penile erections occur with greater frequency.

Additionally, sexual feelings and an increase in the number of erections may be stressful for some boys to try to manage.

The FDA also notes serious side effects that are less common but should be considered, including fainting and low blood pressure as well as long-lasting, painful erections.

Uneven healing of skin may lead to laterally curving erections in adulthood.

In boys, the condition triggers the development of a large penis and testicles, with spontaneous erections and the production of sperm.

The penis may become misshapen and/or curved as a result and erections are painful.

In males past the age of puberty, side effects include increased urinary frequency, breast tenderness and enlargement, and frequent erections.

The most clearly androgen-dependent aspects include libido, sexual activity, and spontaneous erections.

Spontaneous erections also decrease by approximately 40 percent.

However, visual and possibly tactile stimulus-bound erections are not impaired in males with hypogonadism after infancy.

Other times, treatment may prevent a man from having erections and ejaculating.

Bright colour, in truth, is wanting, though attempts are made in a few important modern erections to supply it, a notable instance being the Savoy Hotel buildings (1904) in the Strand.