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Put   /pʊt/   Listen
Put

verb
(past put; past part. put; pres. part. putting)
1.
Put into a certain place or abstract location.  Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set.  "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"
2.
Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation.  "Put your ideas in writing"
3.
Formulate in a particular style or language.  Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact.  "She cast her request in very polite language"
4.
Attribute or give.  Synonym: assign.  "He put all his efforts into this job" , "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
5.
Make an investment.  Synonyms: commit, invest, place.
6.
Estimate.  Synonyms: place, set.
7.
Cause (someone) to undergo something.
8.
Adapt.
9.
Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.  Synonyms: arrange, order, set up.  "Set up one's life" , "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
noun
1.
The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date.  Synonym: put option.



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"Put" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rossini was to make her terrific ascent and descent on a rope three hundred feet high." She might have been the sprite of Madame Saqui; in fact, the "Vauxhall Papers" published in the gardens, put forth a legend, which favours such a dreadful supposition! We refer our readers to them—they are ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... can check, In a minute, their doubts and their quarrels Oh! show but that mole on your neck, And 'twill soon put an ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... do not like that. So, because the way is narrow, and we have to stoop, our pride kicks at the idea of having to confess ourselves sinners, and of having to owe all our hope and salvation to God's undeserved mercy, therefore we stay outside. And because the way is narrow, and we have to put off some of our treasures, our earthward-looking desires shrink from laying these aside, and therefore we stop outside. There was room in the boat for the last man who stood on the deck, but he could not make up his mind to leave a bag of gold. ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... in a simple but tidy chamber, smoking his pipe and playing with a baby; his daughter-in-law rose as we entered, and discreetly moved into an adjoining room. The cheery cut-throat put the baby down to crawl on the floor, and his eyes sparkled when he ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
... islands.[105] While working with the Mandaya in the region of Mayo bay the writer was frequently told that three times, in the memory of the present inhabitants, strange boats filled with strange people had been driven to their coasts by storms. The informants insisted that these newcomers were not put to death but that such of them as survived were taken into the tribe. These stories are given strong substantiation by the fact that only a few months prior to my visit a boat load of people from the Carolines ...
— The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao - The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition • Fay-Cooper Cole


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