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put up en · ADJ

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Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of put-up.
    alt of put-up

put up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To place in a high location.
    • Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.
    • 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. (idiomatic, transitive, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
    • I think someone put him up to it.
  5. (idiomatic, transitive) To store away.
    • “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. […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:
    • Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
  6. (idiomatic, transitive) To house; to shelter; to take in.
    • We can put you up for the night.
  7. (archaic, intransitive) To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
    • "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10:
    • Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner. 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:
    • For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions. 1946, William Allen White, Autobiography, page 411:
  8. (idiomatic, transitive) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
    • That last fighter put up quite a fight.
    • They didn't put up much resistance.
  9. (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
    • 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. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
    • By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […] VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy. 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
  10. (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
    • Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
    • This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word. 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:
  11. (transitive) To build a structure.
    • 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, […]. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
    • They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon, performed by Joni Mitchell:
  12. (transitive) To make available; to offer.
    • The picture was put up for auction.
    • Meanwhile, D9513 has been acquired by a member of the Wensleydale Railway, after it was put up for sale by its owners who had the locomotive at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway. 2023 November 1, “'Western' on the move as diesel-hydraulics change hands”, in RAIL, number 995, page 24:
    • 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. 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 3, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (non-fiction), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 39:
    • I put my first child up for adoption.
  13. (transitive) To cause (wild game) to break cover.
    • "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up." 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  14. (idiomatic, qualifier:food and drink, transitive) To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and/or pickling and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
    • People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples. 1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America (non-fiction), Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 187:
  15. (Canada, US, idiomatic, transitive) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
    • 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. 2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in the New York Times:
    • The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96. 2011 August 9, John Kreiser, “The Great One's 23 unbreakable records”, in NHL.com:
  16. (historical, transitive) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
  17. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
    • I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.
  18. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To kill (someone).
    • I'll put him up.
  19. Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
  20. (UK, archaic, slang, transitive) To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.
    • Her account of the manner in which the 'plant' was made upon her, affords a good example of the style of 'putting up' a house robbery: […] 1856, The London Quarterly Review, volumes 98-99, page 104:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
puts up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put up Tense=Past lexicographic

Antonyms

put down · let down

Coordinates

lock up · lock away

Deriveds

put up or shut up · put up with · put-you-up

Hypernyms

do up

Synonyms

frame up · put away

Translations (52)

fi ripustaa (to hang or mount) · it restare (to house, shelter) · de aufscheuchen (hunting) · de aufbringen (hunting) · ga cuir suas (to build a structure) · de aufnehmen (to house, shelter) · fi nostaa (to place in a high location) · de aufstellen (to build a structure) · ga cuir suas (to house, shelter) · it ospitare (to house, shelter) · es colgar (to place in a high location) · de befestigen (to hang or mount) · it riporre (to store away) · it persuadere (to cajole) · bg изграждам (to build a structure) · tr koymak (to place in a high location) · ru ста́вить (to place in a high location) · pt afixar (to hang or mount) · de aufbauen (to build a structure) · it opporre (to present) · fi panna paikoilleen (to store away) · fi panna pystyyn (to present) · pt hospedar (to house, shelter) · ga cuir suas (to hang or mount) · it collocare (to place in a high location) · fi majoittaa (to house, shelter) · fr placer (to place in a high location) · fi kiinnittää (to hang or mount) · bg окачвам (to hang or mount) · it presentare (to present) · ga cuir suas (to place in a high location) · fr abriter (to house, shelter) · fi yllyttää (to cajole) · pl podnosić (to place in a high location) · de hochtun (to place in a high location) · bg подслонявам (to house, shelter) · de wegräumen (to store away) · it mostrare (to present) · nl opdissen (to present) · es colgar (to hang or mount) · de hochlegen (to place in a high location) · de hochstellen (to place in a high location) · de aufbieten (to present) · de anstacheln (to cajole) · de errichten (to build a structure) · it appendere (to hang or mount) · pl podnieść (to place in a high location) · de aufbringen (to provide funds) · it attaccare (to hang or mount) · de hochräumen (to place in a high location) · pt mostrar (to present) · bg предлагам (to present)