put

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To physically place (sth or sb swh).

   • She put her books on the table.
   • The police put him in a cell.
   • They put the new motorway right through the national park.
2. 2

   To place in abstract

   To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.

   • The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
   • I put £100 on the winning horse.
   • Don't put the blame on me.
3. 3

   To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).

   • Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
   • Put your house in order!
   • He is putting all his energy into this one task.
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   1. 4

      To express (something in a certain manner).

      • When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
      • To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
      • To put it simply, we can't afford it.
   2. 5

      To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection

      To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

      • I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
      • to put a question; to put a case
      • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
   3. 6

      To set as a calculation or estimate.

      • They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
   4. 7

      To steer

      To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

      • to put to sea
      • His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
   5. 8

      To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.

      • He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
   6. 9

      To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not…

      To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)

      • He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
   7. 10

      To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".

   8. 11

      To lay down

      To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

      • No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
   9. 12

      To incite

      To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

      • These wretches put us upon all mischief.
      • Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
      • Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
   10. 13

       To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

   11. 14

       Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)

       • He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
       • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
   12. 15

       The act of putting

       The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

       • the put of a ball
       • The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
   13. 16

       An old card game.

       • Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
   14. 17

       A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one

       A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

       • Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.
       • The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
       • The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
   15. 18

       A prostitute.

       • And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
   16. 19

       Acronym of parameterized unit test.

   17. 20

       Acronym of parameterized unit testing.

   18. 21

       Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.

   19. 22

       Initialism of person using television.

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