"put across" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts across",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put across",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> across"
      },
      "expansion": "put across (third-person singular simple present puts across, present participle putting across, simple past and past participle put across)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"across\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to explain or state something clearly and understandably."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_across-en-verb-zr8Ygc8g",
      "links": [
        [
          "explain",
          "explain"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "understandably",
          "understandably"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "put oneself across"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to convey or communicate."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_across-en-verb-B-DqMwJg",
      "links": [
        [
          "convey",
          "convey"
        ],
        [
          "communicate",
          "communicate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put across"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"across\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts across",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put across",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> across"
      },
      "expansion": "put across (third-person singular simple present puts across, present participle putting across, simple past and past participle put across)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "put oneself across"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to explain or state something clearly and understandably."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "explain",
          "explain"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "understandably",
          "understandably"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to convey or communicate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "convey",
          "convey"
        ],
        [
          "communicate",
          "communicate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put across"
}