PUT TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put together mean? 

• PUT TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb PUT TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. create by putting components or members together

  Familiarity information: PUT TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT TOGETHER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by putting components or members together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together

Context example:

They set up a committee

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

join (cause to become joined or linked)

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

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

comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)

confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)

reassemble (assemble once again, after taking something apart)

configure (set up for a particular purpose)

compound (create by mixing or combining)

rig up (erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

“It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours,” said Kate Su of the University of Arizona who led the study.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

A good figure of a man; well put together.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

From many things—trifles in themselves, but they do not seem to me to be so, when they are put together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I know I am giving you a lot of puzzle pieces to put together, but they are snapping into place so perfectly that I am amazed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All his own fights put together had never reduced the pugilist to such a state of agitation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was called before the curtain, and with great propriety appeared, leading Hagar, whose singing was considered more wonderful than all the rest of the performance put together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A device problem that occurred because the device was assembled or put together incorrectly.

(Device Assembly Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

That's just under three times the diameter of Earth, but tiny in cosmic terms, especially considering the black hole in V404 Cygni weighs as much as 3 million Earths put together.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of the world put together.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)