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PUT TOGETHER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Create by putting components or members together
Example:
They set up a committee
Synonyms:
assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "put together" is one way to...):
join (cause to become joined or linked)
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put together"):
comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)
confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)
reassemble (assemble once again, after taking something apart)
configure (set up for a particular purpose)
compound (create by mixing or combining)
rig up (erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is finished, and that she can henceforth leave the rest to us.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And his daughter was also shocked, but hoped the king would soon give up such thoughts; so she said to him, Before I marry anyone I must have three dresses: one must be of gold, like the sun; another must be of shining silver, like the moon; and a third must be dazzling as the stars: besides this, I want a mantle of a thousand different kinds of fur put together, to which every beast in the kingdom must give a part of his skin.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
My father, as I remember him best, was a tough, strong little man, of no great breadth, but solid and well put together.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Prince's nails do more for me in private families of the genteel sort, than all my talents put together.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Still, in a year when your financial interests glow so brightly, you can go to an advisor and put together a plan that will allow you to boost your credit rating over time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
