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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
put up (not comparable)
- 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)
- (transitive) To place in a high location.
- Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
- (transitive) To hang; to mount.
- Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.
- (transitive, idiomatic, with 'to') To cajole or dare to do something.
- I think someone put him up to it.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To store away.
- Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book VIII:
- “As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two. […]
- (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in.
- We can put you up for the night.
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
- Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
- 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis):
- This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.
- (transitive) To build a structure.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1] (fiction):
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […] .
- 1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell:
- They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
- (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.
- (hunting, transitive) To cause game to break cover.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[3]:
- "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up."
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
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Translations[edit]
to place in a high location
to hang or mount
to cajole
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to store away
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to house, shelter
to present
to put up with — see put up with
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