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PUT UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preserve in a can or tin
Example:
tinned foods are not very tasty
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
keep; preserve (prevent (food) from rotting)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The chefs put up the vegetables
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Example:
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Synonyms:
abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Verb group:
suffer (experience (emotional) pain)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put up"):
accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)
hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)
bear up (endure cheerfully)
take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)
take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)
sit out (endure to the end)
pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Propose as a candidate for some honor
Synonyms:
nominate; put forward; put up
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
nominate; propose (put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Place so as to be noticed
Example:
post a warning at the dump
Synonyms:
post; put up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
instal; install; put in; set up (set up for use)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Construct, build, or erect
Example:
Raise a barn
Synonyms:
erect; put up; raise; rear; set up
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)
Domain category:
building; construction (the act of constructing something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Provide
Example:
The city has to put up half the required amount
Synonyms:
contribute; put up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Make available for sale at an auction
Example:
The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
offer (make available for sale)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 8
Meaning:
Mount or put up
Example:
offer resistance
Synonyms:
offer; provide; put up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
engage; wage (carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 9
Meaning:
Provide housing for
Example:
The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town
Synonyms:
domiciliate; house; put up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "put up" is one way to...):
shelter (provide shelter for)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put up"):
rehouse (put up in a new or different housing)
home (provide with, or send to, a home)
accommodate; lodge (provide housing for)
chamber (place in a chamber)
take in (provide with shelter)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It recalled, at first, that so-different time when I had put up at the Golden Cross, and reminded me of the changes that had come to pass since then; but that was natural.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have no such scruples, and I am sure I could put up with every unpleasantness of that kind with very little effort.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Do put up your horse at the Crown, and come in.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with, were not to be borne.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
So saying, he put up his fists and started for me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Then let us put up an orison.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Don't, that's her name for me!" and Laurie put up his hand with a quick gesture to stop the words spoken in Jo's half-kind, half-reproachful tone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In his trunk were found the invaluable Bruce-Partington plans, which he had put up for auction in all the naval centres of Europe.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
