PUT ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put across mean? 

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

1. transmit information

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT ACROSS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmit information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across

Context example:

pass along the good news

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

communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)

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

implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)

send a message (give or constitute a signal, not necessarily verbally)

relay (pass along)

get across; put over (communicate successfully)

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)

acknowledge; receipt (report the receipt of)

carry (pass on a communication)

deliver; render; return (pass down)

message (send as a message)

message (send a message to)

Sentence frames:

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