put together

To make something by joining parts or organizing ideas, information, or people.

• Help me put together this table.
• She put together a report about local schools.
• They are putting a team together for the competition.

How to use it: put together something / put something together (We put the shelves together yesterday.)

Similar words: assemble, make, prepare, compile

Opposites: dismantle

Common phrases: put together a team, put together a plan, put together a model

To connect facts or ideas in your mind and understand what they mean.

• Put together the clues and find the answer.
• She put the details together and realized he was lying.
• Once I put everything together, the mystery made sense.

How to use it: put together something / put something together (I put the facts together and understood what had happened.)

Similar words: piece together, figure out, work out

Common phrases: put together the clues, put together the facts

Considered as one total, with all the people or things added together.

• He ate more than both of us put together.
• This box weighs more than those three bags put together.
• This town is larger than the other two put together.

How to use it: plural noun/pronoun + put together (She earns more than both of us put together.)

Similar words: combined

Common phrases: both put together, all put together

Calm, sensible, and able to manage your life and responsibilities well.

• She seems very put together.
• He is more put together than he was last year.
• Our new manager is calm, confident, and put together.

Similar words: well-adjusted, level-headed, competent

Common phrases: a put together person, seem put together