Verb: put (put,putting) pût
- Cause to have a certain (possibly abstract) location
"Put your things here";
- set, place, pose, position, lay
- Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
"That song put me in awful good humour"; "put your ideas in writing"
- Formulate in a particular style or language
"I wouldn't put it that way";
- frame, cast, couch
- Attribute or give
"She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story";
- assign
- Organize thoughts, ideas, or temporal events
"I put these memories with those of bygone times";
- arrange, set up, order
- Make an investment
"Put money into bonds";
- invest, commit, place
- Estimate
"We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M";
- place, set
- Cause (someone) to undergo something
"He put her to the torture"
- (music) adapt
"put these words to music"
- The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
"He bought a put option as insurance against a market downturn";
- put option
Derived forms: puts, putting, put
See also: array, demean, go through with, put off, put out, put through, put to sleep, smother, tin
Type of: alter, apply, approximate, arrange, articulate, change, displace, drop, employ, estimate, expend, formulate, gauge, give voice, judge, modify, move, option, organise [Brit], organize, phrase, set, spend, subject, use, utilise [Brit], utilize, word
Encyclopedia: Put, Paul