put up

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

put up (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of put-up

Verb[edit]

put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)

  1. (transitive) To place in a high location.
    Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
  2. (transitive) To hang; to mount.
    Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
  3. (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.
  4. (transitive, idiomatic, with 'to') To cajole or dare to do something.
    I think someone put him up to it.
  5. (transitive, idiomatic) To store away.
    Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
  6. (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in.
    We can put you up for the night.
  7. (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
    That last fighter put up quite a fight.
    They didn't put up much resistance.
  8. (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
      Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore […] ; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.
  9. (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
    Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
  10. (transitive) To build a structure.
  11. (transitive) To make available; to offer.
    The picture was put up for auction.
    I put my first child up for adoption.
    • 2001, Spoto, Donald, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography‎[2] (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 39:
      The house on Arbol Drive was put up for sale that autumn; this portion of the street soon vanished, and the land became part of the Hollywood Bowl complex.
  12. (hunting, transitive) To cause game to break cover.
  13. (of meat, fruit and vegetables) To can; to process by sterilizing and storing in a bottle or can.
    • 1983, Borenstein, Audrey, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America‎[4] (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 187:
      People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.
  14. (US, Canada, transitive, sports, idiomatic) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
    • 2020 April 24, Ken Belson and Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times‎[5]:
      In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.
    • 2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com‎[6]:
      The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96.
  15. (intransitive, archaic) To stop at an hotel or a tavern for entertainment.

Usage notes[edit]

  • The object in senses 1-5 (which ones ??) can come before or after the particle. If it is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.
  • In sense 6 (which one ??) the object must always come after the particle.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

to put up with — see put up with
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