PUT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put up mean? 

• PUT UP (verb)
  The verb PUT UP has 9 senses:

1. place so as to be noticed

2. mount or put up

3. construct, build, or erect

4. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

5. make available for sale at an auction

6. preserve in a can or tin

7. provide housing for

8. provide

9. propose as a candidate for some honor

  Familiarity information: PUT UP used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place so as to be noticed

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

post; put up

Context example:

post a warning at the dump

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

instal; install; put in; set up (set up for use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mount or put up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

offer; provide; put up

Context example:

offer resistance

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

engage; wage (carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Construct, build, or erect

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

erect; put up; raise; rear; set up

Context example:

Raise a barn

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

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Domain category:

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate

Context example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

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

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

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

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make available for sale at an auction

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction

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

offer (make available for sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Preserve in a can or tin

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

can; put up; tin

Context example:

tinned foods are not very tasty

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

keep; preserve (prevent (food) from rotting)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs put up the vegetables

Sense 7

Meaning:

Provide housing for

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

domiciliate; house; put up

Context example:

The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town

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

shelter (provide shelter for)

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

rehouse (put up in a new or different housing)

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

accommodate; lodge (provide housing for)

chamber (place in a chamber)

take in (provide with shelter)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 8

Meaning:

Provide

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

contribute; put up

Context example:

The city has to put up half the required amount

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

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 9

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 up" 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 

You've got their lives, you know, and you must put up with their souls!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The wind was fair. I put up small sail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Though I shall always say he used my daughter extremely ill; and if I was her, I would not have put up with it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lord John merely scratched his scanty locks with the remark that he couldn't put up a fight as he wasn't in the same weight or class.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house.

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

You remember at that date, when I called upon you in your rooms, how I put up the shutters for fear of air-guns?

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

When you want to go a bit of exploring, you just ask old John, and he'll put up a snack for you to take along.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Put up a small purse, master, and I’ll do you over and proud.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paused in his recollections long enough to envy them the spectacle he and Cheese-Face had put up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then she stood by my side in silence for a bit, and then put up her hand and patted me on the shoulder.

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