erect vs goring

erect

adj
  • Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. 

  • Having an erect penis. 

  • Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. 

  • Watchful; alert. 

  • Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. 

verb
  • To animate; to encourage; to cheer. 

  • To spin up and align to vertical. 

  • To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. 

  • To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. 

  • To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. 

  • To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. 

  • To enter a state of physiological erection. 

  • To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.). 

  • To cause to stand up or out. 

  • To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc. 

goring

adj
  • Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail. 

noun
  • The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting 

  • A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width. 

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