put
//pʊt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- put
- past (v2)
- put
- past participle (v3)
- put
- present participle
- putting
- 3rd person singular
- puts
- Plural
- puts
Definitions
1.To physically place (sth or sb swh).
- She put her books on the table.
- They put the new motorway right through the national park.
- The police put him in a cell.
2.To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- I put £100 on the winning horse.
- What answer did you put for question 3?
- The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
3.To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
- The doctor's put me on a strict diet.
- He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- Put the following sentences into the past tense.
4.To express (something in a certain manner).
- To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
- To put it simply, we can't afford it.
- All this is ingeniously and ably put.
1.The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
2.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.
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #153
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin.