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Definition: Put Up |
Put UpVerb1. Put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump". 2. Mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance". 3. Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn". 4. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat". 5. Provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount". 6. Preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty". 7. Provide housing for. 8. Propose as a candidate for some honor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Put UpSynonyms: abide (v), bear (v), brook (v), can (v), contribute (v), endure (v), erect (v), house (v), nominate (v), offer (v), post (v), provide (v), put forward (v), raise (v), rear (v), set up (v), stand (v), stomach (v), suffer (v), support (v), tin (v), tolerate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: level (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. |
Concord | Verb: agree; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant; Adjective: go hand in hand; run parallel; (concur); understand one another, pull together; (cooperate); put up one's horses together, sing in chorus. |
Content | Take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent; acquiesce, assent; be reconciled to, make one's peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with; (bear). |
Desire | Woo, court, solicit; fish for, spell for, whistle for, put up for; ogle. |
Excitability | Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach. |
Location | Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house. |
Billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag. | |
Motive | Verb: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse; Noun: to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon. |
Pacification | Raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace; (concord); be pacified; come round. |
Request | Verb: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim; (demand); offer up prayers; (worship); whistle for. |
Sale | Verb: sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; Noun: dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell. |
Store | Verb: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save. |
Substitution | Verb: subs put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for. |
Teaching | Given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right. |
Worship | Pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, beseech; (ask); say one's prayers, tell one's beads. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Put Up |
| English words defined with "put up": Abear, abide, assuming, assumptive ♦ bear, blind, brook, bungling ♦ circus, clumsy, contribute ♦ dining area ♦ endure ♦ front, fumbling ♦ incompetent ♦ kennel ♦ launch ♦ mortgage, mount ♦ offer ♦ Pier glass, post, presumptuous, provide ♦ rehouse ♦ screen, selling race, slapdash, stake race, stand, stomach, suffer, support ♦ To bring to the hammer, To do up, To lay in balance, To put up, To put up with, To set to sale, To take up with, tolerate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "put up": collateral investment ♦ demo mode, display and banner designer, DISPLAY DESIGNER ♦ flag decorator and designer ♦ Lightning-rod ♦ pull hole, Put up the Shutters ♦ Wager, WHISKY. (references) |
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Screenplays | You put up reward signs (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan) If I was to be a free young malchick again in a fortnight's time, I would put up with much in the meantime (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) They put up all the money (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian) You've got to want it bad, because it's going to put up a fight (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) If the jury is deadlocked, they're put up in a hotel so that they cant communicate with the outside world (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | So put up your dukes and fight (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) I wont't put up, with this (What About Us?; performing artist: Brandy) And put up a parking lot ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) Well I couldn't put up with your scheming (Don't Think I'm Not; performing artist: Kandi) I'll blast for you, need bail put up tha cash for you (Love Is All We Need; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) | |
Clever | Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Put Up Your Hands! (1919) | |
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![]() | Volunteers put up a goose nest in a restored wetland in Story County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. | ![]() | Although the threat of smallpox is declining, this child has to put up with a routine vaccination. / UNRQA/WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by George Nehmeh.. |
![]() | Put up your hands. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | 'Don't put up any resistance! Just keep in step'. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Packages of seeds, with Red Cross labels, put up by the Ferry-Morse Co., Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Signs recently put up at Kymulga, a community near Childersburg, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Houses being put up by Henry Ford to house some of his families who must move out of the Hinesville Army camp area. Part of the Ford plantation was in the area. Near Ways, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Tent being put up to house the migrants. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Wisdom, Montana. Sign put up by the Forest Service. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
A. Vinet | We put up with being surpassed more easily than with being equalled. |
G.k. Chesterton | Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. |
Otto Von Bismarck-schoenhausen | We are perhaps too educated to put up with a constitution -- we are too critical. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And still when I saw him aiming at you, I put up my hand upon the muzzle of the musket |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Well put up your sword |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They put up houses and barns, they turned the earth and planted crops |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The book I had a mind to read was put up leaning against the wall |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | But you do not have to put up with the problems asthma can cause. (references) | |
Business | Essentially all children put up for foreign adoption are girls. (references) | |
Cefarm Poznan is the latest company to be put up for sale, and PGF, Prosper, Cormay and Orfe have showed interest in purchasing it. The fate of Central Cefarm, which was the sole importer under Communism and the main competitor to Orfe in the 1990s, is being viewed with interest by many companies. (references) | ||
As long as there are no investors willing to put up the necessary funds for new ripping machines, the problem may be ameliorated via a reduction in the cost of transporting cars from scrap yards to rippers by pressing the cars before transporting them. This could be done using car crushers which make a 30 - 35 cm cube of the car's body. The problem there is that Poland also lacks these machines, even though they are much cheaper than rippers. (references) | ||
Children | China | Children put up for foreign adoption are almost exclusively girls. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | For example, groups who supported Guei's candidacy were allowed to meet, assemble, and put up public posters. (references) |
Economic History | Moldova | The new Moldovan government announced readiness to put up the two state electricity distribution companies for a tender again in 2001. In June 2001, a special governmental commission announced that the Austrian Investment Bank Raiffeisen was the winner in an international tender for consultant selection for the privatization of the national telephone company, Moldtelecom. (references) |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | Police handcuffed Mironov, stating that he had put up "fierce resistance." Mironov later complained of dizziness, fainted, and died before emergency assistance could arrive. (references) |
Trade | West Bank | Firms often must put up the full amount of the loan -- or more -- as collateral. (references) |
Kenya | The export processing zones are available to both developers (i.e. those intending to put up structures for lease) and operators. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | In December 1998, the Taliban ordered that bus drivers who took female passengers must encase the bus in curtains and put up a curtain so that the female passengers cannot see or be seen by the driver. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Don Imus | I don't put up with anything from people. I mean I don't think people should. I don't think athletes and I don't think show business people should put up with stuff from people and I don't, so. |
Joe Esposito | You know, we all say she must know what's going on, but probably never admitted it. She probably didn't want to admit it, to realize it. But she put up for a long time, and then she stopped putting up with it. That's why they got divorced. |
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Expressions using "put up": hastily put up ♦ have been put up ♦ put up a case ♦ put up a defense ♦ put up a fight ♦ put up a job ♦ put up a notice ♦ put up a poor fight ♦ put up at auction ♦ put up bail for smb. ♦ put up for ♦ put up for auction ♦ put up for reelection ♦ put up for sale ♦ put up money for project ♦ put up one's hand ♦ put up one's horses at ♦ put up one's horses together ♦ put up one's shutters ♦ put up scaffolding ♦ put up security ♦ put up the banns ♦ put up the money ♦ put up the shutters ♦ put up to ♦ put up to auction ♦ put up with ♦ put up with smth. ♦ put up with that! ♦ to put up ♦ To put up a job ♦ to put up one's staff ♦ to put up the spout ♦ To put up to ♦ To put up with. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "put up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uithou (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with, suffer), staan (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with, stand, suffer). (various references) | |
Albanian | propozoj si kandidat, vendosem (determine, locate, make up one's mind, sit down, stand, think fit), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, stand, stand still, stop), ndërtoj (build, carve, construct, engineer, erect, make, raise, rear, set up, throw up, upbuild, work up), i sajuar (born, fabled, fabricated, mythical), i kurdisur. (various references) | |
Arabic | نصب (constitute, install, nominate, roguery, set up, statue, swindle), وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), علب (can, preserve, tin), عرض للبيع (offer, put smth. to sale, release, released, sale), عبأ (box, enlist, load, mobilize, top up), إستضاف (accommodate, entertain, harbor, harbour, host), أعد (activate, dish, dispose, draft, dress, engage, engross, fit, get smb. working, pass, plan, ready), أطاق (bear, brook, endure, stand, stomach, sustain, tolerate), رشح للإنتخابات, شيد (cite, construct, elevate, erect, praise, raise, structure, tribute, whitewash), دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding), بنى (build, construct, erect, make, mason, rear, structure). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hitch, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), давам подслон на (refuge, shelter), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise), изправям (detect, erect, peak, planish, raise, rectify, remedy, repair, right, righten, set right, stand up, straighten, true, uncurl, unkink), пакетирам (make up, pack, parcel, prepackage, wrap up), повишавам (advance, aggrandize, elevate, enhance, erect, heighten, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, rack, raise, up), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage), прибирам (gather, get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, remove, retract, round up, take in, truss, unship), приготвям (fix, get ready, make, make ready, make up, prepare, ready), предлагам за кандидат (put forward), предлагам като залог, предлагам като награда, лансирам (boost, bring out, initiate, launch, push, push forward, sell), авансирам (advance), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, render, send, set, show), оказвам (administer, administrate, do, give, lend, render, show), скроявам (forge, think out), консервирам (can, conserve, cure, pack, pot, preserve, process, put down, salt down, tin), връщам на мястото му, вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), отсядам (stay, stop), залагам (lay, lay down, mortgage, pawn, pledge, pop, put, shoot, stake, venture), отправям (channel, direct, dispatch, extend, forward, send, transmit, turn), залепвам (agglutinate, glue, glue on, glue up, lute, paste, piece together, stick down, stick on, stick to, stick up), обявявам (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, declare, intimate, meld, post, proclaim, promulgate, vote), опаковам (do, pack, pack away, pack up, wrap), настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, fix up, induct, instal, install, place, set, set up, settle, station), нагласявам (focalize, instal, install, orchestrate, piece together, rectify, redress, set), нагласен (fixed, ready), увеличавам (accrete, accumulate, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, enlarge, expand, improve, increase, magnify, multiply, swell), отварям (blow in, break out, open, open up, tear open, throw in, throw open, turn on, unbolt, undo, unseal, unstop, unwrap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 背城借一 (fight to the last ditch, make a last-ditch stand before the city wall, put up a desperate struggle), 掛 (to hang, to put up, to suspend), 克服 (overcome, to conquer, to endure, to put up with), 將就 (accept, put up with), 容忍 (to put up with, to tolerate), 分辨 (put up a defence against an accusation). (various references) | |
Czech | postavit (build, construct, contrast, erect, field, found, pitch, place, put, raise, rear, right, set, state), ponoukat (abet, egg on), pobízet (cheer, spur, underbid, urge, urge on), zvednout (elevate, heave, hoist, hold up, improve, lift, pick up, pick(up), raise, rise, take up), zvýšit (accelerate, ameliorate, bring up, build up, bump up, elevate, enhance, heighten, hot up, improve, intensify, scale up, swell, turn up), zavařit (can), naložit (can, embus, fill, Lade, load, load up, pack, pickle, Stow), falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references) | |
Danish | tåle (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate). (various references) | |
Dutch | monteren (accommodate, adapt, adjust, assemble, attune, fit, fix, link, mount, place, tune), gastvrijheid verlenen aan, gastvrýheid verlenen aan (accomodate, entertain), aanbrengen (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, apply, attune, bring, cover with, denounce, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, place, recruit, report, tune). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gastigi (accomodate, entertain). (various references) | |
Faeroese | torga (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate), tola (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate), loyva (abide, accord, admit, afford, allow, concede, endure, grant, permit, put up with, tolerate), líða (abide, bear, endure, pass, pass by, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
Finnish | pystyttää (erect, pitch, set up), salvaa, majoittaa (accommodate, billet, lodge, quarter). (various references) | |
French | préparer, poser (put, put down), passer la nuit, lancer, établir, abriter, accrocher, afficher, arborer, augmenter (push up, put on, put up with smth.), augmenter les prix, construire, descendre (pull down), dresser, héberger, ériger, installer, supporter (put up with), lever (put up with smth.), loger, offrir, opposer, ouvrir (puncture), remonter (pull up), se porter candidat, se présenter comme candidat, soumettre (put), hisser (pull up). (various references) | |
Frisian | lijen (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
German | anschlagen (aim, bark, bump, burst into, cast on, chip, estimate, fix on, give tongue, hit, knock, nail on, post, strike, take effect, to bump, touch). (various references) | |
Greek | προσχεδιασμένοσ (concerted, prepense), προσφέρω (confer, donate, make an offer, offer, offer to, pay, render, subscribe, tender, utter), προβάλλω (adduce, allege, come into sight, come up, peer, project, propound, show off), φιλοξενώ (accommodate, entertain, feast, host, take in), ανεβάζω (boost, push up, send up, stage), τοιχοκολλώ (placard, stick), ορθώνω (erect). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוקם (erected), ל"קים (erect, establish, raise, set up, start). (various references) | |
Hungarian | igényt támaszt (to claim), feltesz (bet, laid, pose, set up, suppose, to assume, to lay, to postulate, to put up, to suppose, to surmise), felhajt (head back, mop up, roll up, round up, seek, send up, to beat up, to cock, to flush, to hem, to kite, to mop up, to quaff, to quaff off, to ride up, to riffle, to round up, to roust out, to rout out, to turn up, tuck up, turn back, turn up), felemel (boost, elevate, exalt, heighten, levitate, lift up, peak, raise, take up, to boost, to elevate, to exalt, to heighten, to hold up, to jack up, to pull up, to purchase, to set up, to sublime, to uplift, tuck up, upheave, uplift, upraise), elszállásol (accommodate, Lodge, quarter, room, roost, slept, to accommodate, to billet, to house, to put up, to sleep), elõre elkészített. (various references) | |
Icelandic | þola (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer, tolerate). (various references) | |
Italian | scovare (discover, drive out, find, flush out, unearth), rizzare (erect, raise), ospitare (accommodate, entertain, give hospitality to, harbour, hold, Lodge, play at home to), opporre (object, offer, put forward), lanciare (cast, chuck, dash, drop, fling, flip, float, hurl, launch, move out, pitch, promote, propose, send, send up, set, shoot, sling, start, throw, utter), fornire (adduce, afford, cater, contribute, deal, deliver, endow, equip, furnish, give, outfit, present, produce, proffer, provide, stock, stock up, store, supply, to deliver, to provide, yield), erigere (build, claim to be, erect, found, raise, stand), ergere (erect, establishes, raise), disporre (absorb, arrange, array, dispose, get ready, have, have at one's disposal, lay, make arrangements, order, place, prejudice, range, set up, station, will), aumentare (add, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, compound, eke, enhance, escalate, gain, gather, grow, heighten, increase, increments, Mount, put on, raise, rise, step up, swell, to increase), attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attach, attack, become attached, begin, bind, catch on, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, hitch, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, stick, stick in, strike, strike up, tie), aprire (begin, bloom, carve, open, open up, prize, pry, set up, slit, switch on, turn on, unhook, unlock), alzare (erect, get up, heave, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, raise, rear, stand up, to raise, turn up, up, uplift), allineare (align, dress, embattle, fall into line, install, line, line up, range, set up, situate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掲'る (to carry an article, to hang, to print, to publish, to put up). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たえしのぶ (to bear patiently, to endure, to put up with), たえる (to be equal to, to be fit for, to bear, to become extinct, to brave, to die out, to endure, to peter out, to put up with, to resist, to stand, to support, to withstand), しばい'うつ (to givea play, to play a trick, to put up a false show), さす (reef, sandbank, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt), つくろいたてる (to put up a good front), かつぎあ'る (to flatter, to put up), かか'る (to carry, to float, to fly, to hang out, to hoist, to print, to publish, to put up), か"に"ぶくろのおがきれる (to be out of patience, to be unable to put up with something anymore), かみ'あ'る (to put up one's hair), "たえる (to answer, to be equal to, to be fit for, to bear, to brave, to endure, to put up with, to reply, to resist, to respond, to reward, to stand, to strike home, to support, to take its toll, to withstand), "うほしゃ'たてる (to put up a candidate), "らえる (to be equal to, to be fit for, to bear, to brave, to endure, to put up with, to resist, to stand, to support, to withstand), はり す (to jut out, to project, to put up a notice). (various references) | |
Malay | derita ... menderita (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
Manx | troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), fuillaghtyn (endurance, forbear, permit, suffer, sufferance, tolerate), festal (adhere, fit out, fix, mount, set out, stick on, stickiness), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, relinquish, relinquishment, represent, retire, set on fire, surrender), cur aaght da (board of people, harbour, house, lodge, room), ardjaghey (change up, climb, increase, inflation, level up, lift, mount up, outbid, overbid, pitch, prefer, preferment, promote, promotion, ramp, steepen, worsen, worsen as fever). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tåle (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate). (various references) | |
Papiamen | tolerá (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate), sufri (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer), soportá (abide, endure, put up with, tolerate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utpay upay.(various references) | |
Polish | cierpieć (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
Portuguese | pôr em leilão, pôr em conserva, edificar (build, construct, edify, engineer, frame, make, raise), acomodar (accommodate, accommodating, accomodate, adapt, arrange, attemper, attune, berth, compose, contain, have room for, have space for, locate, place, settle, tune), acondicionar (pack, stow, wrap), adaptar (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attemper, attune, calculate, fashion, figure out, fit out, naturalize, place, proportion, put right, straighten out, suit, tune), ajeitar (attune, place, tune), ajustar (accomodate, adapt, adjust, agree on, attune, bargain, close, compromise, contract, fettle, fit, fix, level, make a contract, make up, mount, place, put right, rectify, regulate, settle, suit, tune), arquitetar (build, construct, think up), aviar receita, candidatar-se (run, run for), aboletar-se, conspirar (cabal, collude, connive, conspire, intrigue, plot), suspender (adjourn, cancel, dangle, discontinue, hang, inhibit, intermit, interrupt, lever, lift, paralyse, paralyze, raise, remit, sling, suspend, swing), elevar preços, embrulhar (bundle, convolve, embroil, fold, parcel, ravel, to wrap, wrap up), erigir (build, construct, erect, erecting, rear), hospedar (accept, accomodate, board, entertain, hand in, house, lodge, receive), hospedar-se (check in, hand in, stay), levantar (billow, boost, bring up, build, carry up, elevate, erect, hale, hoist, hoist up, hold up, jack, lift, mount, pitch, provoke, pull up, raise, rear, rough, rouse, set up, up, upbear, upheave, uplift, upraise), comportar (admit, bear). (various references) | |
Romanian | pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, cause, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay on, lay up, Mount, place, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put on, repose, set, sow, stick), vârî în teacã, rosti (breathe, deliver, enunciate, lip, pass, pronounce, say, sound, speak, spout, utter, voice), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), oferi (accord, afford, avail, bid, exhibit, extend, give, hold forth, offer, proffer, show, stand, stretch, yield), monta (accommodate, adapt, adjust, assemble, attune, erect, fit, fit up, fix, hang, install, key up, match, mount, place, rig up, set, set up, tune), duce la magazie, construi (build, build up, carry up, construct, design, engineer, erect, fabricate, form, found, frame, make, project, raise, rear), aranjat dinainte, aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), arãta (appear, bespeak, betoken, carry forth, connote, demonstrate, designate, display, evidence, evince, exhibit, lay out, look, Mark, point, point out, produce, prove, read, record, reveal, rise, seem, set, show, show up, signify, teach, trot out), afişa (advertise, affect, announce, bill, display, exhibit, paste up), înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, raise, set up, uplift). (various references) | |
Russian | строить (build, build up, construct, line up), задуманный, приютить, поднимать цену. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podići (boost, elevate, inflate, lift, pass under, pick up, pull up, raise, rear, uplift, upraise), trpeti (abide, brook, do with, endure, put up with, stand, suffer, thole), otvoriti (open, open up, unbar, unbolt, unclench, unfold), namontiran, namešten (furnished, reduced, set up), lažiran. (various references) | |
Spanish | colocar (adjust, bestow, collocate, dispose, embattle, employ, enrol, go in, install, invest, lay, lay down, locate, Lodge, marry off, perch, pitch, place, plant, play, posit, position, put, put down, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stand, station, Stow, tune). (various references) | |
Sranan | pina (abide, bear, endure, miserable, poor, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
Swedish | montera (assemble, fabricate, fit, fix, instal, install, link, mount). (various references) | |
Turkish | istif etmek (hoard, pile, stack), önceden ayarlamak (prearrange, pre-engage), önceden ayarlanmış (fixed, prearranged), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), arzetmek (Lodge, offer, prefer, present, propound, submit, tender), ayarlanmış, bahis oynamak, bildirmek (acquaint, advise, affirm, announce, annunciate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, intimate, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, proclaim, pronounce, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote), bir yana bırakmak, düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), havaya kaldırmak (hold up, levitate, throw up, upraise), yerine koymak (bestow, case, clap, posit, put back, relay, replace, slot into, spot), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), kalmak (abide, be left, be left over, bed, come to, continue, devolve, fail, flunk, keep, keep to, leave, refuge, remain, rest with, room, sleep, stand, stay, stop, survive, Tarry, wait), kapatmak (ante up, buy up, cap, clear, close, close down, close up, cloud, cover, enclose, furl, impound, incarcerate, inclose, intern, interrupt, liquidate, obturate, occlude, seal, seal off, shut, shut down, shut off, shut to, shut up, switch off, wall), konaklamak (be billeted, camp, roost, stop off, stop over), konservesini yapmak (can, conserve), misafir etmek (entertain, Lodge), misafir olmak (Lodge, visit), reçelini yapmak, sunmak (bring in, confer, dish, dish up, emcee, exhibit, furnish, go over, go through, help smb. to smth., hold forth, initiate, introduce, lay, Lodge, offer, pass in, pitch, prefer, present, proffer, put forward, put in, put to, render, report, represent, serve up, shew, submit, table, tender), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile, pile on, pile up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), gecelemek (roost, sleep, spend the night). (various references) | |
Turkmen | germek (set up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сфабрикований, упаковувати (encase, pack away), виставляти (imbed, obtrude, send in, set forth, show), будувати (build, carry up, construct, erect, frame), підстро"ний, піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, raise, raise up, rear, set up, take up, up, upbear, uphold, uplift, waken). (various references) | |
Welsh | dygymod (acquiesce to, agree with, put up with). (various references) | |
Zulu | -hlupheka (abide, bear, endure, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vena, veni, venique, venis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dia triwn seietai h gh to de tetarton ou dunatai ferein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Per tria movetur terra et quartum non potest sustinere |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Bi thre thingus is moued the erthe, and the ferthe it mai not sustene; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 21 |
| Bulgarian | Поради три неща се тресе земята, "а! поради четири тя не може да търпи: |
| Cebuano | Kay alang sa totolo ka butang ang yuta mokurog, Ug alang sa upat, nga kini dili na niya maantus: |
| Chinese | 使 地 震 動 的 有 三 樣 、 連 地 "" 不 起 的 共 有 四 樣 . |
| Croatian | Od troga se zemlja ljulja, a èetvrtoga ne može podnijeti: |
| Danish | Under tre Ting skælver et Land, fire kan det ikke bære: |
| Dutch | Om drie dingen ontroert zich de aarde, ja, om vier, die zij niet dragen kan: |
| Finnish | Kolmen alla järkkyy maa, ja neljän alla ei se jaksa kestää: |
| French | Trois choses font trembler la terre, Et il en est quatre qu`elle ne peut supporter: |
| German | Ein Land wird durch dreierlei unruhig, und das vierte kann es nicht ertragen: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ada empat hal yang sukar diterima di seluruh dunia: |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab tiga perkara ini dunia menjadi kacau, dan akan empat tiada ia tertahan, |
| Maori | E toru nga mea e korikori ai te whenua, a e wha, he mea e kore e manawanuitia e ia: |
| Norwegian | Under tre skjelver jorden, og under fire kan den ikke holde ut: |
| Portuguese | Por três coisas estremece a terra, sim, há quatro que não pode suportar: |
| Rumanian | Trei lucruri fac sq se rqscoale o yarq, wi patru lucruri nu le poate suferi: |
| Russian | пФ ФТЕИ ФТСУЕФУС ЪЕНМС, ЮЕФЩТЕИ ПОБ ОЕ НПЦЕФ ОПУЙФШ: |
| Spanish | Por tres cosas tiembla la tierra, y la cuarta no puede soportar: |
| Swedish | Tre finnas, under vilka jorden darrar, ja, fyra, under vilka den ej kan uthärda: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Put Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pyt up. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "p-p-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: pup, put, tup. | |
-3 letters: up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-p-t-u-u" | |
+3 letters: uppercut. | |
+4 letters: suppurate, uppercuts. | |
+5 letters: suppurated, suppurates. | |
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