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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: -er - erecter</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="er"> -er (1),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns.) <DD> 1. (added to verbs) a person or thing that ______s. Ex. Climber = a person, animal, or plant that climbs. Admirer = a person who admires. <DD> 2. (added to nouns) a person living in ______. Ex. New Yorker = a person living in New York. Villager = a person living in a village. <DD> 3. (added to nouns) a person who makes or works with ______. Ex. Hatter = a person who makes hats. <DD> 4. (added to nouns) a person or thing that is or has ______. Ex. Six-footer = a person who is six feet tall. Rancher = a person who has a ranch. </DL> <A NAME="er"> -er (2),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming nouns from other nouns.) a person or thing connected with ______. Ex. Officer = a person connected with an office. </DL> <A NAME="er"> -er (3),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming the comparative degree of adjectives.) more. Ex. Softer = more soft. </DL> <A NAME="er"> -er (4),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix forming the comparative degree of adverbs.) more. Ex. Slower = more slow. </DL> <A NAME="er"> -er (5),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) the action or process of ______ing, as in waiver, supper. </DL> <A NAME="er"> -er (6),<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) ______ frequently; ______ again and again, as to flicker, patter. </DL> <A NAME="er"> Er (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> erbium (chemical element). </DL> <A NAME="er"> E.R.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. King Edward (Latin, Eduardus Rex). <DD> 2. Queen Elizabeth (Latin, Elizabeth Regina). </DL> <A NAME="era"> era, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an age in history; historical period. Ex. the Napoleonic era, the Romantic era. The years from 1817 to 1824 in United States history are often called the Era of Good Feeling. <DD> 2. a period of time starting from some important or significant happening or date. Ex. the postwar era. <DD> 3. a system of reckoning time starting from some important or significant happening or given date. Ex. The Christian Era is the period of time reckoned from about four years after the birth of Christ. We live in the 20th century of the Christian Era. <DD> 4. one of the five very large divisions of time in geological history: the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Proterozoic, and Archeozoic. An era is usually divided into periods. <DD> 5. the period of time to which anything belongs or is to be assigned. Ex. 'Twas in November, but I'm not so sure About the day--the era's more obscure (Byron). </DL> <A NAME="era"> ERA (no periods) or E.R.A.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. earned run average. <DD> 2. Emergency Relief Administration. <DD> 3. Equal Rights Amendment (a proposed constitutional amendment stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex"). Ex. Proponents of ERA redoubled efforts to ... make it law (Caroline Bird). </DL> <A NAME="eradiate"> eradiate, transitive verb, -ated, -ating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to send forth, as rays of light. </DL> <A NAME="eradiation"> eradiation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> emission of rays or beams, as of light; radiation. </DL> <A NAME="eradicable"> eradicable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be eradicated. </DL> <A NAME="eradicant"> eradicant, noun. =eradicator.</DL> <A NAME="eradicate"> eradicate, transitive verb, -cated, -cating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to get rid of entirely; destroy completely; extirpate. Ex. Yellow fever has been eradicated in the United States but it still exists in some countries. (SYN) eliminate. <DD> 2. to pull out by the roots. Ex. The gardener eradicated weeds from the garden. </DL> <A NAME="eradication"> eradication, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of eradicating or state of being eradicated; complete destruction or uprooting. (SYN) extirpation, extermination. </DL> <A NAME="eradicative"> eradicative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to eradicate. </DL> <A NAME="eradicator"> eradicator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that roots out or removes utterly. </DL> <A NAME="eradiculose"> eradiculose, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) without rootlets. </DL> <A NAME="erasable"> erasable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be erased. Ex. Erasable X-ray pictures are printed in a new machine (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="erase"> erase, transitive verb, erased, erasing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to rub out; remove by rubbing or scraping. Ex. He erased the wrong answer and wrote in the right one. <DD> 2. to remove all trace of; blot out. Ex. Unwanted recordings may simply be erased by demagnetizing and the tape reused almost indefinitely (New Yorker). (Figurative.) The blow on his head erased the details of the accident from his memory. </DL> <A NAME="erasehead"> erase head,<DL COMPACT><DD> the device on a tape recorder that erases previous recordings on a tape by demagnetizing the tape; erasing head. </DL> <A NAME="erasement"> erasement, noun. =erasure.</DL> <A NAME="eraser"> eraser, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> something used to erase marks made with pencil, ink, or chalk. Ex. My pencil is equipped with an eraser made of rubber. </DL> <A NAME="erasinghead"> erasing head, =erase head.</DL> <A NAME="erasion"> erasion, noun. =erasure.</DL> <A NAME="erasmian"> Erasmian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the Dutch scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus or with his writings and work. <DD>noun a follower or imitator of Erasmus. </DL> <A NAME="erasory"> erasory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> involving erasure or obliteration (of a wart or other neoplasm). Ex. No known compound has an effect upon the polyoma virus which spreads verrucae [warts], and the orthodox doctor is left still with only the erasory treatments of cauterization, freezing or electrosurgery (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="erastian"> Erastian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with Thomas Erastus, a Swiss-German theologian, a follower of Zwingli, or his doctrine. <DD> 2. advocating the doctrine of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters. <DD>noun an advocate of the doctrine of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters. </DL> <A NAME="erastianism"> Erastianism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Erastian doctrines or advocacy of them. </DL> <A NAME="erasure"> erasure, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of erasing; a scraping or rubbing out. Ex. the erasure of a typing error. <DD> 2. an erased word, letter, or the like. Ex. He questioned her about the erasure. <DD> 3. the place where a word, letter, or the like, has been erased. Ex. The erasure was obvious. </DL> <A NAME="erato"> Erato, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the Muse of poetry about love. </DL> <A NAME="erbium"> erbium, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a grayish, rare-earth metallic chemical element of the yttrium group. It is soft and lustrous, occurs as a minute part of various minerals, and is used in nuclear research. </DL> <A NAME="erda"> ERDA, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Energy Research and Development Administration (of the United States, from 1974 to 1977). </DL> <A NAME="ere"> ere, preposition, conjunction.<DL COMPACT><DD> ( Archaic.) <DD>prep. before. Ex. He will come ere long. Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time (Byron). <DD>conj. 1. before. Ex. How long will it be ere they believe me (Numbers 14:11). Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). <DD> 2. sooner than; rather than. Ex. You shall want ere I want (motto of a Border family). </DL> <A NAME="erebus"> Erebus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) <DD> 1. a dark, gloomy place through which the dead passed on their way to Hades. <DD> 2. one of the sons of Chaos. He represented darkness. </DL> <A NAME="erechtheion"> Erechtheion, noun. =Erechtheum.</DL> <A NAME="erechtheum"> Erechtheum, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Ionic temple on the Acropolis at Athens, built about 400 B.C., famous for its technical perfection and architectural variety. </DL> <A NAME="erechtheus"> Erechtheus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a king and guardian divinity of Athens. Ex. King Erechtheus of Athens was usually said to be the king in whose reign Demeter came to Eleusis and agriculture began (Edith Hamilton). </DL> <A NAME="erect"> erect, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. straight up; not tipping or bending; upright. Ex. an erect tree. A telephone pole stands erect. A soldier holds his body erect. <DD> 2. raised or directed upward; bristling; stiff. Ex. The cat faced the dog with fur erect. <DD> 3. (Botany.) vertical throughout; not spreading. Ex. an erect stem, an erect leaf or ovule. <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) <DD> a. (of the hands) uplifted. <DD> b. (of the mind) alert or attentive. <DD>v.t. 1. to put straight up; set upright. Ex. They erected a television antenna on the roof. The pole was erected on a firm base. <DD> 2. to put up; build. Ex. The house was erected forty years ago. (SYN) construct. <DD> 3. to put together. Ex. When the missing parts arrived, we erected the machine. (SYN) assemble. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) to set up; establish; found. Ex. to erect an institution. <DD> 5. to form (into). Ex. to erect a territory into a state. <DD> 6. (Geometry.) to draw or construct (a line or figure) upon a given line, base, or the like. <DD> 7. (Optics.) to change (an inverted image) to a normal position. <DD> 8. (Physiology.) to raise a tissue by distention. <DD> 9. (Archaic.) to lift up; exalt; elevate. adv. erectly. noun erectness. </DL> <A NAME="erectable"> erectable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be erected. </DL> <A NAME="erecter"> erecter, noun. =erector.</DL> <A HREF="erectile.dic">NEXT</A>