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Definition: Put Together |
Put TogetherAdverb1. In conjunction with; combined; "Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage"; "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together". Verb1. Make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Put TogetherSynonyms: collectively (adv), conjointly (adv), jointly (adv), together (adv), assemble (v), piece (v), set up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disassemble (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. |
Combination | Verb: combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry. |
Junction | Verb: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody; roll into one. |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
Whole | Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Put Together |
| English words defined with "put together": Alectryomancy ♦ chunk, cobble together, cobble up, collectively, compile, compose, conjointly, connect, construct ♦ Erecting shop ♦ fabricate ♦ Incondite, Interpenetrating molding ♦ jointly ♦ kludge ♦ link, link up, lump ♦ Make-up, manufacture ♦ recombine, Recompose ♦ seam, Straight-joint ♦ tie, together. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "put together": Linvill model, lumped model ♦ neurofibrillary tangle ♦ quick-and-dirty ♦ useful lifespan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "put together": synthesis. (references) |
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Screenplays | Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge, put together! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) It won't crank up and everything seems to be put together right (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) I'm an architect for Christ sake, I build 50 story skyscrapers, I assemble cities of the future, I can certainly put together a goddam diaper (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) He thinks its a conspiracy put together by the cereal people (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) Ever see a monkey put together an engine (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Everything Put Together (2000) | |
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"Allison and Reid Center put together a bird box". Credit: Saundra Miles. | "Volunteer Triston Center and BLM employee Chuck Vostal put together a bird box". Credit: Saundra Miles. | ||
![]() | Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A machine tool assembly line where fixed bed milling machines are put together, thoroughly checked and run-off. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Thomas Fuller | Religion without Piety hath done more Mischief in the World, than all other Things put together. |
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Business | The British still tend to buy package tours put together and advertised in catalogs and brochures by tour operators. (references) | |
The notebook market is concentrated between the three top players in Compaq, IBM and Toshiba, which put together account for 49 percent of the market. (references) | ||
This company has achieved critical mass by taking cellular retail, and are planning to do the same with Internet - merging the two technologies at point of sale. By the end of 1999, Vodacom aims at having more Internet users than all other providers put together. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | In the elections, Congress (I) won 213 parliamentary seats and put together a coalition, returning to power under the leadership of P.V. Narasimha Rao. (references) |
Belgium | General elections were last held on June 13, 1999. Driven in part by resentment over a mishandled dioxin food-contamination crisis in June 1999, Belgian voters rejected Jean Luc-Dehaene's longstanding coalition government of Christian Democrats and Socialists and voted into power a coalition put together by Flemish Liberal Leader Guy Verhofstadt. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | Alternatively, the investor(s) proposing to do business from an industrial park may also put together the required funds. (references) | |
Political Rights | Hong Kong | The Government is working with the affected parties to put together an alternative arrangement. (references) |
Trade | Czech Rep | In some cases, your willingness to help assemble financing will put you ahead of competitors; in still more cases, your ability to put together a financing package will create a market that otherwise would not exist. (references) |
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Connie Chung | I am sad. I'm so sad. I've worked with some really terrific people there. In fact, I think in some ways they helped me put together the best stories I've ever done, terrific producers, and excellent editors. |
Dennis Miller | Believe me, I can put together quite a legal team where I am going. |
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Expression using "put together": To put together. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "put together"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë bashkë, montoj (assemble, constitute, erect, hook up, Mount), krijoj një dosje, kompozoj (compose, write). (various references) | |
Arabic | مركب (assembled, built up, combination, combined, complex, component, composite, composition, compound, installed, synthesis), جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ألف (accustom, affect, compile, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, score, thousand, write), ركب (assemble, compact, compose, construct, fabricate, frame, mount, prepare, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose), شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съчинявам (compose, excogitate, indite, invent, make, make up, mint, pen), съшивам (piece, seam, sew together, sew up), съпоставям (collate, juxtapose), сравнявам (collate, compare, confront, contrast, liken, parallel), скалъпвам (carpenter, cook up, fabricate, indite, piece together, rig up, think up, toss off), сглобявам (assemble, erect, fit out, fit up, interlock, join), приготвям набързо. (various references) | |
Chinese | 湊 (assemble, come together, press near). (various references) | |
Czech | složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, set down, tackle, take, take down, throw), slepit (cobble together, gum, gum down, gum up, paste, paste together, tape), sestavit (assemble, compile, draw up, erect, frame, make, make out, make up, piece together, set). (various references) | |
Dutch | samenstellen (compile, compose), ineenzetten, býeenvoegen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kunmeti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | seta saman (assemble, compose, create, link, mount, write). (various references) | |
Finnish | panna kokoon (assemble, compose, draw up), sommitella (compose, design, draw up), sepittää (coin, compose, invent, make, make up, write). (various references) | |
French | assembler, joindre (put right). (various references) | |
German | zusammentun (lump together), zusammenstellen (arrange, assemble, assort, collect together, collocate, compilate, compile, compose, concoct, draft, draw up, lump together, make out, pick, set, to assemble, to assort, to compilate, to compose), zusammensetzen (assemblage, assemble, compose, compound, fit up, seat together, to compose, to compound, to frame, unfragment), zusammenlegen (amalgamate, centralize, combine, consolidate, fold, fold up, heap together, hold together, lump together, merge, pile together, pool, whip round), zusammengetan, zusammenfügen (coalesce, fit together, join together, join up, link, merge, packetize, slot together, synthesize, to coalesce), zusammenbauen (assemble, fit up, to assemble), aufbauen (assemble, base, be based, build, build on, build up, construct, establish, fix up, get up, lay out, organize, promote, put up, rebuild, set up, structure, to build (up), to build up, to synthesize), aneinanderfügen (join). (various references) | |
Greek | συναρμολογώ (assemble, collate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"רכיב (assemble, build, combine, compose, compound, fabricate, place on, set up). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összetesz (compound, to compound), összekapcsol (associate, associated, butt, clip, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, interconnect, join, join up, joint, link, relate, splice, staple, to abut, to associate, to bracket, to clasp, to conjugate, to couple, to interconnect, to interlock, to link, to relate, to splice, to staple, to unite), összeilleszt (dovetail, fit in, inosculate, join, join up, paste together, to abut, to fit in, to join up, to joint, to mortice, to mortise, to piece together, to seam, to splice). (various references) | |
Italian | riunire (assemble, bring together again, collect together, come together again, gather, meet, meet together, rally, reunite), montare (assemble, blow up, climb, come up, cover, edit, exaggerate, fit, get big-headed, get on, go up, Mount, mount on, pitch, ride, rise, set, to assemble, whip, whisk), improvvisare (ad lib, extemporise, extemporize, gag, improvise, rig, rig up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 連ねる (to join, to link, to put together), 組む (to put together), 併せる (to put together, to unite). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くむ (to consider, to dip, to draw, to have a drink together, to ladle, to pump, to put together, to scoop, to serve sake, to sympathize with), くみあ'る (to compose, to draw, to put together), つらねる (to join, to link, to put together), あわせる (to add up, to be opposite, to check with, to combine, to compare, to connect, to expose to, to face, to join together, to maketo meet, to match, to mix, to overlap, to put together, to subject to, to unite), よせあつめる (to collect, to gather, to put together, to scrape together), とりそろえる (to assemble of goods, to gather, to put together), とりまぜる (to mix, to put together), とりあわせる (to assemble, to put together). (various references) | |
Manx | meeraghey (phrase, piece, piece together). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utpay ogethertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | unir (adjoin, ally, attach, band, cement, compact, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, dowel, fasten, fay, fish, fuse, gather, hold together, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, link, marry, mate, splice, team up, unite, wed, yoke), reunir (adjoin, aggregate, annex, annexe, assemble, band, center, centre, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, gang, gather, get together, get-together, group, join, mass, muster, piece, piece together, rally, rejoin, reunite, unite), juntar (accumulate, add, adjoin, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, attach, brace, bulk, cohere, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, fund, gather, get-together, halve, heap, herd, huddle, inclose, inosculate, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, rake, reunite, run-on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, unite, weld), agregar (accrete, aggregate, assemble, mass). (various references) | |
Romanian | uni (agree, amalgamate, bind, combine, conjoin, connect, couple, focus, join, knit, knot, link, mate, merge, unite, Wed), combina (arrange, blend, combine, compound, concoct, contrive, devise, group, hammer out, joint, match, mix, piece, temper), îmbina (arrange, blend, combine, conjoin, connect, entwine, fasten, feather, frame, interfuse, interweave, joint, lap, match, merge, mix, piece, tie, unite). (various references) | |
Russian | составить (compose, draw up, make up), компоновать (edit, link). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | složiti (agree, arrange, fold, get along, pile, set, stack), sklopiti (assemble, close, contract, fold, make, negotiate), sastaviti (assemble, compile, compose, compound, indite, join, piece, scribe, seam, sew together), napisati (indite, inscribe, make out, pencil, write, write out, write up). (various references) | |
Spanish | poner juntos (join, join up, lump together, throw together), unir (add, adjoin, aggregate, attach, band together, cement, conjoin, connect, couple, frame, incorporate, interlock, join, join on, join together, join up, joint, knit together, link, link together, link up, mate, merge, total, unite), sumar (add, add together, add up, add up to, amount, amount to, count in, number, sum up, tack on, tot, total, unite), reunir (assemble, bring together, build up, collect, combine, draw together, drum up, gather, gather together, get together, join, reunite, round up, scrape together, scrape up, scratch together, scratch up, unite), organizar (arrange, array, be organized, catalog, catalogue, categorize, do organized, drum up, get organized, get up, give, host, light, line up, live up, make organized, organise, organize, stage, tell off), montar (assemble, back, edit, elevate, enter, erect, go in, hack, knit up, knock down, lash, Mount, perform, piece together, put on, put up, ride, set, set in, set up, ship, sit), juntar (aggregate, collect, couple, draw together, gather together, get together, join, join up, joint, knit together, pair, piece together, scare up, tie, unite), formar (array, conceive, constitute, draw up, dress, educate, fashion, form, form up, frame, lay, make up, Marshal, model, Mold, mould, parade, shape, throw, throw in, train, train up, turn out), ensamblar (assemble, butt, dock, join, join up, joint, mortise), crear (create, develop, devise, draw, endow, establish, found, invent, launch, make, mint, originate, run up, scoop, set up, think up), confeccionar (concoct, make, make up, manufacture, prepare), comparar (balance, collate, compare, contrast, draw an analogy, equate, parallel, size up), armar (arm, Armor, armour, assemble, bend, carry on, fit out, kick up, load, piece together, reinforce, rig up, set, ship), añadir (add, add in, add on, adjoin, affix, annex, append, cement, complement, compliment, extol, extoll, incorporate, increase, join on, lend, postfix, put on, sauce, subjoin, tack on, throw in). (various references) | |
Swedish | sammanställa (compile, make up, set), samla ihop (collect, huddle, round up), lägga ihop (add up, fold up, pack, tot, total). (various references) | |
Turkish | toparlamak (clean up, collect, compose, do out, find one's legs, make up, pick up, piece together, rake together, rally, re-collect, round off, sum up, tidy out, tidy up), monte etmek (assemble, install, Mount, set up), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), birleştirmek (aggregate, ally, amalgamate, assemble, associate, colligate, combine, compound, confederate, congregate, conjoin, connect, consolidate, consubstantiate, couple, dovetail, federate, fuze, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interconnect, interlink, join, joint, knit together, knit up, link up, match, mediatize, patch up, piece, piece together, pool, put to, reunite, stick together, tack, tag, unify, unite, wed to). (various references) | |
Turkmen | guranmak (be put together). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скріпляти (anchor, annex, authenticate, brace, clamp, clip, fasten, hold together, tie), компілювати (compile, quilt, throw together). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commiserat, commiserit, commiserunt, commisi, commisit, commissum, commissura, commissuram, commissuras, committant, committe, committebant, committenda, committentes, committere, committit, committitis, committunt, concinnabat, concinnanda, concinnandas, concinnat, concinnatis, concinnavit, condasque, condat, condatur, condentur, condere, conderet, condiderunt, condidit, condita, conditae, condite, condito, conditor, conditorum, conditum, conditus, condunt, confero, conseres, conseretur, conservi. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | samskrta. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | composer. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epeidhper polloi epeceirhsan anataxasqai dihghsin peri twn peplhroforhmenwn en hmin pragmatwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt ordinare narrationem quae in nobis conpletae sunt rerum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forþam ðe witodlice manega þohton þara þinga race geendebyrdan þe on us gefyllede synt. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe for manye men enforceden to ordeyne the tellyng of thingis, whiche ben fillid in vs, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For as moche as many have take in hand to compyle a treates of thoo thinges which are surely knowen amonge vs |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us, |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Sanglit daghan man ang nangako sa pagtagik ug kaasoyan mahitungod sa mga butang nga nahitabo sa taliwala namo, |
| Croatian | Kad veæ mnogi poduzeše sastaviti izvješæe o dogaðajima koji se ispuniše meðu nama - |
| Danish | Efterdi mange have taget sig for at forfatte en Beretning om de Ting, som ere fuldbyrdede iblandt os, |
| Dutch | Nademaal velen ter hand genomen hebben, om in orde te stellen een verhaal van de dingen, die onder ons volkomen zekerheid hebben; |
| Finnish | Koska monet ovat ryhtyneet tekemään kertomusta meidän keskuudessamme tosiksi tunnetuista tapahtumista, |
| French | Plusieurs ayant entrepris de composer un récit des événements qui se sont accomplis parmi nous, |
| German | Sintemal sich's viele unterwunden haben, Bericht zu geben von den Geschichten, so unter uns ergangen sind, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Teofil chèf mwen, anpil moun te seye ekri istwa tout evènman ki te pase nan mitan nou yo. |
| Hungarian | Mivelhogy sokan kezdették rendszerint megírni azoknak a dolgoknak az elbeszélését, a melyek minálunk beteljesedtek, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Teofilus yang budiman, Banyak orang sudah berusaha menulis dengan teratur mengenai peristiwa-peristiwa yang telah terjadi di tengah-tengah kita. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sedangkan banyak orang sudah mencoba mengarang hikayat dari hal segala perkara yang menjadi yakin di antara kita, |
| Italian | Poiché molti han posto mano a stendere un racconto degli avvenimenti successi tra di noi, |
| Korean | 우 리 중 에 이 루 어 진 사 실 에 대 하 여 |
| Latvian | Jau daudzi mçìinâjuði uzrakstît nostâstus par notikumiem, kas risinâjuðies mûsu vidû. |
| Manx Gaelic | Son wheesh as dy vel ymmodee er ghoaill ayns laue dy chur coontey cairagh jeh ny reddyn ta dy firrinagh er nyn gredjal nyn mast'ain. |
| Maori | ¶ Na, i te mea he tokomaha kua anga ki te whakakaupapa i te korero o nga mea kua whakatutukitia nei i waenganui i a tatou, |
| Norwegian | Eftersom mange har tatt sig fore å sette op en fortelling om de ting som er fullbyrdet iblandt oss, |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq mulyi s`au apucat sq alcqtuiascq o istorisire amqnunyitq despre lucrurile cari s`au petrecut printre noi, |
| Russian | лБЛ ХЦЕ НОПЗЙЕ ОБЮБМЙ УПУФБЧМСФШ ПЧЕУФЧПЧБОЙС П УПЧЕТЫЕООП ЙЪЧЕУФОЩИ НЕЦ"Х ОБНЙ УП'ЩФЙСИ, |
| Shuar | ¶ Nekas Iiní Túramia nuna "ímiatrusan aartajai" Untsurí aents tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Puesto que muchos han intentado poner en orden un relato acerca de las cosas que han sido ciertísimas entre nosotros, |
| Swahili | Mheshimiwa Theofilo: Watu wengi wamejitahidi kuandika juu ya mambo yale yaliyotendeka kati yetu. |
| Swedish | Änglabudskapen till Sakarias och Maria. Maria och Elisabet. Johannes' födelse och hans faders lovsång. |
| Uma | ¶ Teofilus to rabila': Wori' -mi tauna mperao mpo'uki' dala ngkatuwu' -na Yesus, hewa to jadi' ba hangkuja mpae to liu hi laintongo' -ta. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-o-p-r-t-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: together. | |
-4 letters: euphroe, proette, protege, prutoth, thereto, tougher, treetop, turpeth. | |
-5 letters: getter, ghetto, gopher, gutter, hereto, hetero, hotter, petter, pother, potter, pouter, prutot, pugree, puttee, putter, repute, rotgut, roupet, tether, tetter, thorpe, threep, tother, totter, toupee, touter, trough, troupe, uphroe, uptore. | |
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