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put through
put someone or something through (to someone)
to put someone's telephone call through to someone. Will you please put me through to the international operator? Please put my call through.
put someone through something
to cause someone to have to endure something. The doctor said he hated to put me through all these tests, but that it was medically necessary.
put somebody through something
1. to force someone to experience something unpleasant in order to help them His teacher put him through six months of writing essays every day to improve his skills.
2. to unintentionally cause someone to experience something painful Elaine put her daughter through a kind of hell when she divorced the child's father.
put somebody/yourself through something
to pay for someone or for yourself to go to school I ended up putting my granddaughter through school. My father wasn't well and couldn't work, so all of us kids put ourselves through college.
put somebody/something through
also put through somebody/something to arrange for a telephone call to be made to a place or person The international operator put me through to London. Passengers could put through calls on their cell phones.
put through
1. Bring to a successful conclusion, as in We put through a number of new laws. [Mid-1800s]
2. Make a telephone connection, as in Please put me through to the doctor. [Late 1800s]
3. Cause to undergo, especially something difficult or troublesome, as in He put me through a lot during this last year. The related expression, put someone through the wringer, means "to give someone a hard time," as in The lawyer put the witness through the wringer. The wringer alluded to is the old-fashioned clothes wringer, in which clothes are pressed between two rollers to extract moisture. [First half of 1900s]
put through
v.1. To cause something to pass from one side of a boundary, threshold, or opening to the other: I put the thread through the eye of the needle.
2. To bring something to completion: They put the project through on time.
3. To cause someone or something to complete a process, especially a process of approval: Congress has recently put through a number of new laws. I had to work two jobs to put my child through college.
4. To cause someone or something to undergo or experience something unpleasant or difficult: They put me through a lot of trouble. We put all our products through a series of tests.
5. To connect some telephone call or caller: Can you put the call through to my office? The operator put me through on the office line.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Branislava | | - | Serbian, Slovak, Czech, Slovene |
| Aglaia | | ə-GLAY-ə (English), ə-GLIE-ə (English) | Greek Mythology, Greek |
| Lara (1) | | LAHR-ə (English), LAH-rah (German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) | Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian |
| Jaylon | | JAY-lən | African American (Modern) |
| Vugar | | - | Azerbaijani |
| Maynard | | MAY-nərd | English |