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put

Pronunciation: /pʊt/

The English word “put” has 17 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To physically place (sth or sb swh).
  2. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
  3. To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
  4. To express (something in a certain manner).
  5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
  6. To set as a calculation or estimate.
  7. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  8. To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
  9. To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
  10. To play a card or a hand in the game called “put”.
  11. To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  12. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  13. To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

noun

  1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
  2. An old card game.
  3. A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
  4. A prostitute.

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. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to…

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