putting together
Making something whole
Putting together means assembling or combining separate elements into a unified whole.
You put together furniture from a kit, put together a team for a project, or put together an outfit for an occasion.
The phrase emphasizes the process of construction or organization: It took hours to put together the proposal.
To be well put together is to appear polished and composed.
- makingProducing or constructing
- concoctInvent or devise
- compileCollect into unified whole
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
- assembleJoin parts together
jigsaw puzzle · create · construct · synthesize · aggregating · fabricate · combine · mix and match · join · unite · consolidate · cobbling · bundling · organize · formulate · setting up · compose · merge
- setupsetting up, installation, assembling, installing, initialization
- creatingcreating, inventing, producing, generating, making
- discoveryfind, finding, discovery, discover, finding out
putting togethertaking apart
Separating into components
dismantling · disassembling · pulling apart · breaking down · deconstructing
putting togetherdestroying
Causing complete ruin
demolishing · wrecking · ruining · smashing · breaking
putting togetherscattering
Distribution in many directions
dispersing · jumbling · disorganizing · messing up · mixing up