An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ERECTION
erecting, erection
(noun) the act of building or putting up
erection
(noun) a structure that has been erected
erection, hard-on
(noun) an erect penis
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
erection (countable and uncountable, plural erections)
(uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
Synonyms: building, construction
(countable) Anything erected or built.
Synonyms: building, construction
(uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
Synonym: Thesaurus:erection
(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
(countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
Synonym: Thesaurus:erect penis
Hyponyms: priapism, permaboner, death erection, morning wood
Anagrams
• neoteric
Source: Wiktionary
E*rec"tion, n. Etym: [L. erectio: cf. F. érection.]
1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
5. (Physiol.)
Definition: The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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