erects
Sayi-REKTS/ɪˈɹɛkts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of erect.
Each spring, the city erects metal barriers along the parade route.
The committee erects a stone memorial whenever a local veteran dies.
Note
In the present tense, this form usually takes an object, something built or set upright: a crew erects scaffolding, a town erects a monument. The intransitive use is technical. A gyroscope erects when it spins up and aligns to vertical, with nothing as its object. The figurative senses, to exalt someone or to encourage and cheer them, are transitive like the building sense.
erects is a form of erect
erect, verb: To put something up by fitting its materials or parts together. Full entry
- Spelling
- erect → erects: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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