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单词 put two and two together
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put1 /pŭt/

transitive verb (putting /pŭtˈing/; put)
  1. To place, or cause to be, in such and such a position, state, predicament, relation, etc
  2. To set
  3. To place, lay or deposit
  4. To apply
  5. To append or affix
  6. To connect
  7. To add
  8. To commit
  9. To assign
  10. To start (someone on eg a diet, a study or a track)
  11. To push or thrust
  12. (also putt) to cast, throw or hurl (esp by a thrusting movement of the hand from the shoulder)
  13. To drive
  14. To impel
  15. To convey or transport
  16. To force or constrain
  17. To incite
  18. To subject
  19. To reduce
  20. To convert
  21. To render
  22. To express
  23. To assert
  24. To propound
  25. To submit to a vote
  26. To impose
  27. To impute
  28. To call on, oblige, stake, venture or invest
  29. To repose (eg trust, confidence)
intransitive verb
  1. To thrust (archaic or Scot and N Eng)
  2. To proceed, make one's way (nautical)
  3. To set out, esp hurriedly
  4. To flow (US)
noun
  1. A push or thrust
  2. (also putt) a throw, esp of a heavy object from the shoulder
  3. On the Stock Exchange, an option of selling within a certain time certain securities or commodities, at a stipulated price (also put option)
ORIGIN: Late OE putian (found in the verbal noun putung instigation); there were also potian and pȳtan, which may account for some of the dialect forms; cf Dan putte, Swed putta

putter /pŭtˈər/ noun

  1. Someone who puts
  2. Someone who pushes or hauls trams in a coalmine (historical)

puttˈing noun

Putting the shot (qv below)

putˈ-and-take noun

A gambling game played with a top on which are marked instructions to give to or take from a bank or pool of objects

putˈ-down noun

  1. A snub
  2. An action intended to assert one's superiority

putˈ-in noun (rugby)

The act of throwing the ball into a set scrum

putˈ-off noun

  1. An excuse or evasion
  2. A postponement

putˈ-on noun

A hoax

put option see put (n) above.

puttˈer-on noun (Shakespeare)

An instigator

puttˈer-out noun (obsolete)

Someone who deposited money on going abroad, on condition of receiving a larger sum on his return, if he ever returned

putˈ-through noun

A transaction in which a broker arranges the buying and the selling of shares

puttˈing-stone noun

A heavy stone used in putting the shot

put-upˈ adjective

Arranged beforehand in a false but deceptively plausible way

put about

  1. To publish or circulate
  2. To change the course of (esp a ship) or to change course
  3. To distress (Scot)

put across

  1. To carry out successfully, bring off
  2. To perform so as to carry the audience with one

put an end (or a stop) to

To cause to discontinue

put away

  1. To renounce
  2. To divorce
  3. To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
  4. To stow away, pack up or set aside
  5. To put into the proper or desirable place
  6. To imprison
  7. To admit to a mental hospital (informal)
  8. To eat or drink (informal)

put back

  1. To push backward
  2. To delay
  3. To repulse
  4. To turn and sail back for port (nautical)
  5. To reduce one's finances (informal)

put by

  1. To set aside
  2. To parry
  3. To store up

put case see under case2

put down

  1. To crush or quell
  2. To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
  3. To snub or humiliate
  4. To degrade
  5. To snub, silence or confute (Shakespeare)
  6. To enter, write down on paper
  7. To reckon
  8. To attribute
  9. To give up (rare)
  10. To surpass or outshine
  11. To preserve, put in pickle (dialect)
  12. Of an aeroplane, to land (often with at)
  13. To pay (a deposit)
  14. To put (a baby) to bed (informal)
  15. To drop (a catch) (cricket)

put for

To make an attempt to gain

put forth

  1. To extend
  2. To propose
  3. To publish
  4. To exert
  5. To display
  6. To lend at interest
  7. To set out from port
  8. To produce or extrude

put forward

  1. To propose
  2. To advance

put in

  1. To introduce
  2. To insert
  3. To lodge, deposit or hand in
  4. To make a claim or application (for)
  5. To enter
  6. To enter a harbour
  7. To interpose
  8. To perform towards completing a total
  9. To spend, pass or fill up (time) with some occupation
  10. To appoint

put in an appearance see under appear

put in mind

To remind

put it across someone

To defeat someone by ingenuity

put it on

To pretend (to be ill, etc)

put it past someone

(usu with not) to judge it inconsistent with someone's character

put off

  1. To lay aside
  2. To lay aside the character of
  3. To palm off
  4. To turn (someone) aside from what he or she wants or intends with evasions, excuses or unsatisfying substitutes
  5. To divert, turn aside from a purpose
  6. To postpone
  7. To idle away, spend in vain
  8. To disconcert
  9. To cause aversion or disinclination in
  10. To push from shore
  11. To take off (archaic)
  12. To dismiss (archaic)

put on

  1. To clothe oneself or someone else with
  2. To assume (a character or quality), esp deceptively
  3. To mislead or deceive
  4. To superimpose
  5. To impose
  6. To affix, attach, apply
  7. To add (eg weight, charges, etc)
  8. To stake or wager
  9. To move forward
  10. To move faster (obsolete)
  11. To set to work
  12. To set in operation
  13. To incite
  14. To turn on the supply of
  15. To score
  16. To stage
  17. See also well put on below

put on to

  1. To make aware of
  2. To connect with by telephone

put out

  1. To expel
  2. To dismiss from a game and innings
  3. To send out
  4. To stretch out
  5. To extinguish
  6. To place (money) at interest
  7. To expand
  8. To publish
  9. To disconcert
  10. To inconvenience
  11. To offend
  12. To dislocate
  13. To exert
  14. To produce
  15. To place with others or at a distance
  16. To go out to sea, leave port
  17. To remove bodily or blind (an eye)
  18. To render unconscious (slang)
  19. (of a woman) to be willing to grant sexual favours (slang, orig N American)

put over

  1. To refer (Shakespeare)
  2. To carry through successfully
  3. To impress an audience, spectators, the public, favourably with
  4. To impose, pass off

put paid to see under paid

put the make on see under make1

put through

  1. To bring to an end
  2. To accomplish
  3. To put in telephonic communication
  4. To cause to undergo or suffer
  5. To process (computing)

putting the shot, stone or weight

The act or sport of hurling a heavy stone or weight from the hand by a sudden thrust from the shoulder (see also putt1)

put to

  1. To apply
  2. To add to
  3. To connect with
  4. To harness
  5. To shut
  6. To set to

put to death see under death

put to it

  1. To press hard
  2. To distress

put to rights see under right1

put to sea

To begin a voyage

put to the sword see under sword

put two and two together

To draw a conclusion from various facts

put up

  1. To accommodate with lodging
  2. To take lodgings
  3. To nominate or stand for election
  4. To offer for sale
  5. To present (eg a good game, a fight, or a defence, a prayer)
  6. To stake
  7. To parcel up
  8. To supply and pack (an order, a picnic, etc)
  9. To stow away, put aside
  10. To sheathe
  11. To settle beforehand
  12. To compound
  13. To endure tamely (obsolete)
  14. To start (a hare) from cover

put-up job

A dishonest scheme prearranged usu by several people

put upon

  1. To take undue advantage of
  2. To impose on

put up to

  1. To incite to
  2. To make conversant with, to supply with useful information or tips about

put up with

To endure

stay put

To remain passively in the position assigned

well put on or (Scot) well putten on

Respectably dressed

two /too/

noun
  1. The cardinal number next above one
  2. A symbol representing that number (2, ii, etc)
  3. A pair
  4. A score of two points, strokes, tricks, etc
  5. An article of a size denoted by 2
  6. A deuce, a playing card with two pips
  7. A two-cylinder engine or car
  8. The second hour after midnight or midday
  9. The age of two years
adjective
  1. Of the number two
  2. Two years old
ORIGIN: OE twā (fem and neuter) two (masc twēgen); Ger zwei, Gothic twai; Gr dyo, L duo, Sans dva, Gaelic dà

twoˈer noun (informal)

Anything that counts as or for two, or scores two

twoˈfold adjective and adverb

  1. In two divisions
  2. Twice as much
  3. (esp Scot twafald /twä, twö-föld/) in a doubled-up position

twoˈfoldness noun

twoˈness noun

  1. The state of being two
  2. Duality

twoˈsome (Scot twaˈsome) noun

  1. A group of two
  2. A tête-à-tête
  3. A game between two players (golf)
adjective
  1. Consisting of two
  2. Performed by two

twoˈ-bit adjective (N American)

Cheap, paltry

two bits plural noun (N American)

Twenty-five cents, a quarter

twoˈ-bottle adjective

Able to drink two bottles of wine at a sitting

two-by-fourˈ noun

(a piece of) timber measuring four inches by two inches in cross-section (somewhat less when dressed)

twoˈ-decker noun

  1. A ship with two decks or with guns on two decks
  2. A bus or tram-car carrying passengers on a roofed top

twoˈ-digit adjective

In double figures

twoˈ-dimensional adjective

  1. Having length and breadth but no depth
  2. Having little depth or substance (figurative)

two-dimensionalˈity noun

The property of having length and breadth but no depth

twoˈ-edged adjective

  1. Having two cutting edges
  2. Capable of being turned against the user
  3. Having advantages and disadvantages

twoˈ-eyed adjective

Having two eyes (two-eyed steak (slang) a bloater)

twoˈ-faced adjective

  1. Having two faces
  2. Double-dealing, false

twoˈ-fisted adjective

  1. Clumsy
  2. Capable of fighting with both fists
  3. Holding the racket with both hands (tennis)

twoˈ-foot adjective

Measuring, or with, two feet

twoˈ-footed adjective

  1. Having two feet
  2. Capable of kicking and controlling the ball equally well with either foot (football, etc)

twoˈ-for-his-heels noun (old)

A rascal or knave (from the score for turning up a knave in cribbage)

twoˈ-forked adjective

Having two prongs or branches

twoˈ-four adjective and adverb (music)

With two crotchets to the bar

twoˈ-hand adjective (Shakespeare)

For two hands

twoˈ-handed adjective

  1. With or for two hands
  2. For two persons
  3. Ambidextrous
  4. Strapping

two-handˈedly adverb

two-handˈer noun

Anything designed for, written for or requiring both hands or two people (eg actors)

twoˈ-headed adjective

  1. Having two heads
  2. Directed by two authorities

twoˈ-horse adjective

For two horses (two-horse race any contest in which only two of the participants have a genuine chance of winning)

twoˈ-inch adjective

Measuring two inches

twoˈ-leaved or twoˈ-leafed adjective

  1. With two leaves or leaflets
  2. With leaves in twos

twoˈ-legged adjective

With two legs

twoˈ-line adjective (printing)

Having double depth of body

twoˈ-lipped adjective

  1. Having two lips
  2. Bilabiate

twoˈ-masted adjective

Having two masts

twoˈ-mastˈer noun

A two-masted ship

twoˈ-pair or twoˈ-pair-of-stairs adjective

On a second floor

noun

A room so situated

twoˈ-part adjective

Composed in two parts or for two voices

twoˈ-parted adjective

  1. Bipartite
  2. Divided into two nearly to the base

twopence /tupˈəns/ or (decimalized currency) two pence /too pens/ noun

  1. The sum of two pennies
  2. A coin worth two pence

twoˈpence-coloured adjective see under penny

twopenny /tupˈni/ adjective

  1. Sold, offered at or worth twopence
  2. Cheap, worthless

noun

  1. Ale sold at twopence a quart
  2. In leapfrog, the head

twopenny-halfpenny /tupˈni-hāpˈni/ or twopence-halfpenny adjective

Paltry, petty

two-pennˈyworth or two-penn'orth /too-penˈərth/, also (chiefly Scot) twopenceworth /tupˈ/ noun

  1. An amount worth twopence
  2. One's own contribution to a debate

twoˈ-phase adjective

(of an electrical circuit, device, etc) employing two phases whose voltages are displaced from one another by ninety electrical degrees

twoˈ-piece noun

Anything consisting of two separate parts, pieces or members (also adjective)

twoˈ-ply adjective

  1. Having two layers, or consisting of two strands
  2. Woven double

noun

Wool or yarn consisting of two strands twisted together

two-pot screamer noun (Aust sl)

A person who gets drunk on a comparatively small amount of alcohol

two-power standard noun (historical)

The principle that the strength of the British Navy must never be less than the combined strength of the navies of any two other powers

twoˈ-roomed adjective

twoˈ-score noun and adjective

Forty

twoˈseater noun

  1. A vehicle or aeroplane seated for two
  2. A sofa for two

twoˈ-sidˈed adjective

  1. Having two surfaces, aspects or parties
  2. Facing two ways
  3. Double-faced
  4. Having the two sides different

two-sidˈedness noun

two-speed gear noun

A gear-changing contrivance with two possibilities

two-start thread see double-threaded screw under double

twoˈ-step noun

  1. A gliding dance in duple time
  2. A tune for it

intransitive verb

To dance the two-step

twoˈ-storeyed or twoˈ-storˈey adjective

twoˈstroke adjective

  1. (of an engine cycle) consisting of two piston strokes
  2. Relating to or designed for such an engine

noun

An engine working in such a way

twoˈ-time transitive verb and intransitive verb

  1. To deceive, esp to be unfaithful to a spouse or partner
  2. To double-cross

twoˈ-timer noun

A person who deceives or double-crosses

twoˈ-timing adjective and noun

twoˈ-tone adjective

  1. Having two colours or two shades of the same colour
  2. (of eg a car horn) having two notes

twoˈ-up noun

(in NZ and Australia) a game in which two coins are tossed and bets made on both falling heads up or both tails up

two-up, two-down noun and adjective

(a small, traditionally built terraced house) having two bedrooms upstairs and two reception rooms downstairs

twoˈ-way adjective

  1. Permitting passage along either of two ways esp in opposite directions
  2. Able to receive and send signals (radio)
  3. Of communication between two persons, groups, etc, in which both participate equally
  4. Involving shared responsibility
  5. Able to be used in two ways
  6. Having a double mode of variation or two dimensions (mathematics)

two-way mirror noun

One functioning as a mirror on one side and able to be seen through on the other

twoˈ-wheeled adjective

Having two wheels

two-wheelˈer noun

A vehicle with two wheels, esp a motor-cycle, or formerly a hansom cab

twoˈ-year-old adjective

noun

A child, colt, etc aged two

be two

To be at variance

in two

Asunder, so as to form two pieces

in two twos or two ticks (slang)

In a moment

put two and two together see under put1

that makes two of us (informal)

The same thing applies to me

two by two

In pairs

two or three

A few
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