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单词 put up
释义 put up
verb
Etymology: Middle English putten up, from putten to put + up
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to place in a container or receptacle
  < put his lunch up in a brown paper bag >
 b. : to put away (a sword) in its scabbard : sheathe
  < put up your swords; you know not what you do — Shakespeare >
 c. : to pack with something : make up into a container or package
  < had with him a basket his mother had put up — Winston Churchill >
 d. : to prepare so as to preserve for later use: as
  (1) : to prepare (perishable foodstuffs) by canning
   < put up several quarts of peaches >
   < put enough preserves up to last the year >
  (2) : to cure and store (as hay or fodder)
   < put up hay for wintering my saddle horses — Bruce Siberts >
 e. : to make up (as a medicine, prescription) : compound, prepare
 f. : to put away out of use
  < put her car up then and began spending her days cooped in … her hundred thousand dollar home — John Faulkner >
2. : to start (game) from cover : rouse
 < saw birds, which my dog put up on one side of the river, cross to the other bank — Douglas Carruthers >
 < put up a herd of eleven wild deer who … only glided noiselessly a few yards into the woods — S.P.B.Mais >
3. archaic : to put up with : endure
 < persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly suffered — Shakespeare >
4.
 a. : to nominate for election to a position or membership in an association
  < his colleagues put up his name for premier — Neal Stanford >
  < put her name up for the sorority >
 b. : to select for some function or duty
  < I was put up, at eight or nine, to propose some family toast — Joyce Cary >
  < catechized each man put up to serve on the jury — David Masters >
5. : to offer up (a prayer) : present (a petition) for action or consideration
 < were really putting up — and in vain — a supplication for mercy — Havelock Ellis >
 < he's going to put up prayers for rain in church next Sunday — Ellen Glasgow >
6. : to set (hair) usually in pin curls
7.
 a. : to make public or ask to be made public — used especially of banns
  < put up their banns for the third time >
 b. : to offer for public sale
  < some farmer decides to pull up stakes and puts his possessions up for auction — American Guide Series: Texas >
 c. : to present publicly : expose
  < an idea which has been occupying me of late I would like to put up for criticism — Lucien Price >
8.
 a. : to give food and shelter to (a horse)
  < put up his horse for the night at the only stable in town >
 b. : to provide lodgings for : accommodate
  < suggested I go to his club, where he was putting me up, and have the bath — Marcia Davenport >
9. : to arrange (as a plot or scheme) with others : preconcert
 < put up a job to steal the jewels >
10. : build, erect
 < before the present building was put up, a smaller stone structure occupied the same site — C.J.Allen >
11.
 a. : to make a display of : exhibit, show
  < swallows can put up very good flight performances — David Gunston >
  < desperate as he was, he put up a brave front >
  < put up a bluff >
 b. : to carry on
  < has put up a bitter struggle against great odds >
  < had put up a losing fight against erosion >
12.
 a. : contribute, pay
  < was supposed to put up enough money to finish the film — Moore Raymond >
 b. : to offer as a prize or stake
  < a bet of $25 was put upAmerican Guide Series: Minnesota >
13. : to increase the amount of : raise
 < this sellers' cartel put up the price of rubber for a time — D.W.Brogan >
 < mechanical handling is one of the things which are putting up industrial productivity — Bertram Mycock >
intransitive verb
: lodge
 < two seasons ago I put up at a farmhouse — T.H.White b.1906 >
Synonyms: see reside
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