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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Together \To*geth"er\, adv [OE. togedere togidere, AS t[=o]g[ae]dere, t[=o]g[ae]dre, t[=o]gadere; t[=o] to + gador together. [root]29. See {To}, prep., and {Gather}.] 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. --Landor. 2. In or into union; into junction; as to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. --Bacon. 3. In concert; with mutual co["o]peration; as the allies made war upon France together. {Together with}, in union with in company or mixture with along with Take the bad together with the good. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: . e To push from land; as to put off a boat. {To put on} or {upon}. a To invest one's self with as clothes; to assume. ``Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.'' --L'Estrange. b To impute something to to charge upon as to put blame on or upon another. c To advance; to promote. [Obs.] ``This came handsomely to put on the peace.'' --Bacon. d To impose; to inflict. ``That which thou puttest on me will I bear.'' --2 Kings xviii. 14. e To apply; as to put on workmen; to put on steam. f To deceive; to trick. ``The stork found he was put upon.'' --L'Estrange. g To place upon as a means or condition; as he put him upon bread and water. ``This caution will put them upon considering.'' --Locke. h (Law) To rest upon to submit to as a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. {To put out}. a To eject; as to put out and intruder. b To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. c To extinguish; as to put out a candle, light, or fire. d To place at interest; to loan; as to put out funds. e To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] f To protrude; to stretch forth; as to put out the hand. g To publish; to make public; as to put out a pamphlet. h To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as to put one out in reading or speaking. i (Law) To open as to put out lights, that is to open or cut windows. --Burrill. j (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as to put out the ankle. k To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. {To put over}. a To place (some one) in authority over as to put a general over a division of an army. b To refer. For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. c To defer; to postpone; as the court put over the cause to the next term. d To transfer (a person or thing) across as to put one over the river. {To put the hand} {to or unto}. a To take hold of as of an instrument of labor; as to put the hand to the plow; hence to engage in (any task or affair); as to put one's hand to the work b To take or seize, as in theft. ``He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.'' --Ex. xxii. 11. {To put through}, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence to push to completion; to accomplish; as he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] {To put to}. a To add to unite; as to put one sum to another. b To refer to to expose; as to put the safety of the state to hazard. ``That dares not put it to the touch.'' --Montrose. c To attach something to to harness beasts to --Dickens. {To put to a stand}, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. {To put to bed}. a To undress and place in bed, as a child. b To deliver in or to make ready for childbirth. {To put to death}, to kill. {To put together}, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one {To put this and that} (or {two and two}) {together}, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. {To put to it}, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to ``O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.'' --Shak. {To put to rights}, to arrange in proper order to settle or compose rightly. {To put to the sword}, to kill with the sword; to slay. {To put to trial}, or {on trial}, to bring to a test; to try {To put trust in}, to confide in to repose confidence in {To put up}. a To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with as to put up indignities. [Obs.] ``Such national injuries are not to be put up.'' --Addison. b To send forth or upward; as to put up goods for sale. d To start from a cover, as game. ``She has been frightened; she has been put up.'' --C. Kingsley. e To hoard. ``Himself never put up any of the rent.'' --Spelman. f To lay side or preserve; to pack away to store; to pickle; as to put up pork, beef, or fish. g To place out of sight, or away to put in its proper place as put up that letter. --Shak. h To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to as he put the lad up to mischief. i To raise; to erect; to build; as to put up a tent, or a house. j To lodge; to entertain; as to put up travelers. {To put up a job}, to arrange a plot. [Slang] Syn: To place set lay; cause produce; propose; state. Usage: {Put}, {Lay}, {Place}, {Set}. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: together adj : (informal) mentally and emotionally stable; "she's really together" adv 1: in conjunction with combined; "Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage"; "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together" [syn: {jointly}, {collectively}, {conjointly}, {put together}] 2: in contact with each other "the leaves stuck together" 3: in one place "we were gathered together" [syn: {assembled}] 4: in each other's company; "we went to the movies together"; "the family that prays together stays together" 5: at the same time; "we graduated together" 6: with cooperation and interchange; "we worked together on the project" [syn: {in collaboration}, {unitedly}] 7: with a common plan "act in concert" [syn: {in concert}, {in agreement}]
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