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put together

put together verb: to assemble, construct, build, or formulate.

Verb

put together (third-person singular simple present puts together, present participle putting together, simple past and past participle put together)

  1. (transitive) To assemble, construct, build, or formulate.
    • If you try to put together the model kit yourself, be careful not to break any of the pieces.
    • We'll need to put together a plan if we want to get this project finished.
    Synonyms:
    confect
  2. (transitive) To gather one's thoughts and come to conclusions.
    • They were drunk and slow and she was quick to her boot and quick with the blade and she had sliced one across the arm and the other across the cheek before either could put together what was happening.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 206

Adjective

put together

  1. In total.
    • Alaska has more land than Texas and Oklahoma put together.
  2. (especially) Stable and sound psychologically and hence in other respects; competent and responsible.
    • Today, Bessy is still unmarried but she is well put together. She has bought two new cars since the divorce, she now owns her home, two of her children have college degrees, one is certified in medical assisting, […]2011, Sondra Busby, Understanding Life and Its Challenges, →ISBN
    • I had the impression that she is well put together and has good ego-strength. She is aware of her tendency to be overly self-critical, is working on it and making some progress.1954, Annette Marie Garrett, Learning Through Supervision, page 78

put together meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Sanskrit

put together in Tamil

ஒன்றுகூட்டி விளையாட்டு

put together in Kannada

ಹೂಡು, ಕುಪ್ಪು, ಒತ್ತರಿಸು, ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸು, ಸೇರಿಸು, ಜೋಡಿಸು

put together in Sanskrit

put together; constructed; well or completely formed; perfected
संस्कृत
to put together, form well, join together, compose
संस्कृ saṃskṛ
to put together, gather, collect
उपहृ upahṛ

Synonyms of put together

Forms of put together

third-person singular presentputs together
present participleputting together
past participleput together
pastput together

Words formed from put together

Questions about put together

What does put together mean?
Put together means to assemble, construct, build, or formulate.
What is put together in Tamil?
Put together in Tamil is ஒன்றுகூட்டி விளையாட்டு. See Put together meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is put together?
Put together can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of put together?
The past tense of put together is put together.

Words near put together in the dictionary

  1. put to the torch
  2. put to the vote
  3. put to use
  4. put to words
  5. put to work
  6. put together
  7. put two and two together
  8. put two and two together and came up with five
  9. put two and two together and come up with five
  10. put two and two together and made five
  11. put two and two together and make five

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put together (page history and authors); put together (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); put together (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उपहृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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