Translations for „put to“ in the English » German Dictionary

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put to VB trans

1. put to (suggest):

to put it to sb that ...

jdm unterstellen, dass ...

I put it to you that you were in the building at the time of the murder

ich behaupte, dass Sie zur Tatzeit in dem Gebäude waren

2. put to (assign):

to put sth to sth date, name

sich acc an etw acc erinnern

I can't put a name to his face

ich komme nicht auf seinen Namen

I couldn't put a precise date to it

ich kann mich nicht an das genaue Datum erinnern

3. put to (apply, devote):

to put one's mind to sth

sich acc auf etw acc konzentrieren

4. put to AGR (mate):

to put a cow to a bull

eine Kuh mit einem Bullen decken

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to put to sea

in See stechen

to put it baldly, ...

um es geradeheraus zu sagen, ...

to put on weight

zunehmen

to put it bluntly

um es deutlich zu sagen

to put sb straight

jdn korrigieren

to put clothes on

Kleider anziehen [o. CH anlegen] inf

to put in hand esp Brit

ausführen

to put out leaves

sprießen form

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to put up scaffolding

ein Gerüst aufschlagen [o. aufstellen]

to put sb right

jdn berichtigen

to put on Mozart

Mozart auflegen

to put the shot SPORTS

Kugel stoßen

to put sth right

etw in Ordnung bringen

to put a comma

ein Komma setzen

to put guests off

Gäste ausladen

to put matters right

Tatsachen richtigstellen

to put down sth

etw hinstellen [o. abstellen]

to put up bail

eine Kaution zahlen

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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Scrape the seeds from inside the vanilla pod and put to one side.

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In 1996, four prototypes were put to the test in Zaire.

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There the large coach house was put to use as a family studio.

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All truth-claims are embedded in experience, and their validity is put to the test within the lived world of human experience.

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The men of the family were put to death and the women were made slaves.

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Part and parcel of this is to have a good idea of what alternative use the sale proceeds would be put to.

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The persecutions did not end, however, and the arrested opposition leaders themselves were shortly put to death.

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Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer was put to work here as part of the codebreaking effort.

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The abolition of the euro opt-out was put to a referendum in 2000 and was rejected.

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Resetting between takes took twenty minutes while the hydraulics were put to their starting positions and the cracks filled with plaster.

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