PUT FORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put forward mean? 

• PUT FORWARD (verb)
  The verb PUT FORWARD has 4 senses:

1. put before

2. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

3. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

4. propose as a candidate for some honor

  Familiarity information: PUT FORWARD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT FORWARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put before

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

posit; put forward; state; submit

Context example:

I submit to you that the accused is guilty

Hypernyms (to "put forward" is one way to...):

advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assert; put forward

Context example:

Women should assert themselves more!

Hypernyms (to "put forward" is one way to...):

acquit; bear; behave; carry; comport; conduct; deport (behave in a certain manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir

Context example:

call down the spirits from the mountain

Hypernyms (to "put forward" is one way to...):

call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)

Verb group:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put forward"):

anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)

bless (give a benediction to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Propose as a candidate for some honor

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

nominate; put forward; put up

Hypernyms (to "put forward" 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

 Context examples 

There is something to be said for the theory of suicide which you have put forward.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pray you, Edricson, that you will command my guidon-bearer to put forward my banner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She put forward a hand—such a gracious, stooping attitude it was—and she pressed back my head.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes’ requests, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dr. Seward said to us, when we were alone, that he did not wish to go into the matter; the question of an inquest had to be considered, and it would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

However, in order for the TNOs to have the observed orbits and for there to be no Planet Nine, the model put forward requires the combined mass of the Kuiper Belt to be between a few to ten times the mass of the Earth.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

Mr. Holmes, if ever you put forward your full powers, I implore you to do so now, for never in your life could you have a case which is more worthy of them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The alternative explanation to the so-called ‘Planet Nine’ hypothesis, put forward by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut, proposes a disc made up of small icy bodies with a combined mass as much as ten times that of Earth.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

I put forward this obvious reflection, not out of any desire to disparage Mr. Waldron in particular, but that you may not lose your sense of proportion and mistake the acolyte for the high priest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes seemed struck by the theory thus put forward, and he continued to walk up and down for some time, lost in thought and consuming cigarette after cigarette.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)