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put together

verb

create by putting components or members together (Freq. 4)

- She pieced a quilt

- He tacked together some verses

- They set up a committee

• Derivationally related forms: ↑piece (for: ↑piece), ↑assemblage (for: ↑assemble)

• Hypernyms: ↑join, ↑bring together, ↑make, ↑create

• Hyponyms:

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- Something ——s somebody

- Something ——s something

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put together [phrasal verb]

1 put (something) together or put together (something)

1 a : to create (something) by joining or gathering parts together

You'll need a screwdriver to put the toy together.

They put their first band together when they were in high school.

Help me put together a list of what we need at the store.

She put a proposal together to give to the committee for consideration.

Her outfit was very well put together. [=the parts looked good together]

1 b

— used to say that someone or something is greater than the total of all the other people or things mentioned

You're smarter than all of those other guys put together.

2 put (something) together with (something) : to add or combine (something) with (something)

I never would have thought of putting this wine together with fish.

The lack of rain put together with [=along with, combined with] the heat ruined many of the region's crops.

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Main Entry: ↑put

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put toˈgether idiom

used when comparing or contrasting sb/sth with a group of other people or things to mean ‘combined’ or ‘in total’

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Your department spent more last year than all the others put together.

Main entry: ↑put_idiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.