Dictionary entry

Erection

Pronunciation: /ɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)n/

Pronunciation

/ɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)n/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ထောင်နေခြင်း။ထူထောင်ခြင်း။တည်ဆောက်ခြင်း။

Definition

erect /Ç'rekt/ adj ၁။ မတ္ေသာ။ ေထာင္မတ္ေသာ။ hold oneself/ stand erect ❍ Sit comfortably with your head erect. ❍ The dog's ears were erect and alert. ၂။ (ေယာက်္ားလိင္) ေတာင္ေသာ။ (ႏို႔သီး)တင္းမာေသာ။ v ( fml ) ၁။ ေဆာက္သည္။ တည္သည္။ They plan to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place. ❍ A statue/monument was erected to (ie to honour the memory of) Queen Victoria. ၂။ စိုက္သည္။ ေထာင္သည္။ ထူသည္။ e rect a tent/sign/screen ❍ ( fig ) erect a new charter of social values. ❏ erection /Ç'rekʃn/ n ၁။ [U] ( fml ) ေဆာက္လုပ္ျခင္း။ ေဆာက္လုပ္မႈအေျခအေန။ The erection of the building took almost a year. ၂။ [C] ေယာက်္ား လိင္ေတာင္ျခင္း။ get/have an erection.

Examples

  1. A memorial to her was erected after her death.
  2. Police erected barriers around the crime scene.
  3. Mike and Lee were trying to erect the tent.
  4. The previous administration had erected a complex system of trade barriers.