putter /pŭtˈər/ noun

1. Someone who puts
2. Someone who pushes or hauls trams in a coalmine (historical)

puttˈing noun

Putting the shot (qv below)

putˈ-and-take noun

A gambling game played with a top on which are marked instructions to give to or take from a bank or pool of objects

putˈ-down noun

1. A snub
2. An action intended to assert one's superiority

putˈ-in noun (rugby)

The act of throwing the ball into a set scrum

putˈ-off noun

1. An excuse or evasion
2. A postponement

putˈ-on noun

A hoax

put option see put (n) above.

puttˈer-on noun (Shakespeare)

An instigator

puttˈer-out noun (obsolete)

Someone who deposited money on going abroad, on condition of receiving a larger sum on his return, if he ever returned

putˈ-through noun

A transaction in which a broker arranges the buying and the selling of shares

puttˈing-stone noun

A heavy stone used in putting the shot

put-upˈ adjective

Arranged beforehand in a false but deceptively plausible way

put about

1. To publish or circulate
2. To change the course of (esp a ship) or to change course
3. To distress (Scot)

put across

1. To carry out successfully, bring off
2. To perform so as to carry the audience with one

put an end (or a stop) to

To cause to discontinue

put away

1. To renounce
2. To divorce
3. To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
4. To stow away, pack up or set aside
5. To put into the proper or desirable place
6. To imprison
7. To admit to a mental hospital (informal)
8. To eat or drink (informal)

put back

1. To push backward
2. To delay
3. To repulse
4. To turn and sail back for port (nautical)
5. To reduce one's finances (informal)

put by

1. To set aside
2. To parry
3. To store up

put case see under case²

put down

1. To crush or quell
2. To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
3. To snub or humiliate
4. To degrade
5. To snub, silence or confute (Shakespeare)
6. To enter, write down on paper
7. To reckon
8. To attribute
9. To give up (rare)
10. To surpass or outshine
11. To preserve, put in pickle (dialect)
12. Of an aeroplane, to land (often with at)
13. To pay (a deposit)
14. To put (a baby) to bed (informal)
15. To drop (a catch) (cricket)

put for

To make an attempt to gain

put forth

1. To extend
2. To propose
3. To publish
4. To exert
5. To display
6. To lend at interest
7. To set out from port
8. To produce or extrude

put forward

1. To propose
2. To advance

put in

1. To introduce
2. To insert
3. To lodge, deposit or hand in
4. To make a claim or application (for)
5. To enter
6. To enter a harbour
7. To interpose
8. To perform towards completing a total
9. To spend, pass or fill up (time) with some occupation
10. To appoint

put in an appearance see under appear

put in mind

To remind

put it across someone

To defeat someone by ingenuity

put it on

To pretend (to be ill, etc)

put it past someone

(usu with not) to judge it inconsistent with someone's character

put off

1. To lay aside
2. To lay aside the character of
3. To palm off
4. To turn (someone) aside from what he or she wants or intends with evasions, excuses or unsatisfying substitutes
5. To divert, turn aside from a purpose
6. To postpone
7. To idle away, spend in vain
8. To disconcert
9. To cause aversion or disinclination in
10. To push from shore
11. To take off (archaic)
12. To dismiss (archaic)

put on

1. To clothe oneself or someone else with
2. To assume (a character or quality), esp deceptively
3. To mislead or deceive
4. To superimpose
5. To impose
6. To affix, attach, apply
7. To add (eg weight, charges, etc)
8. To stake or wager
9. To move forward
10. To move faster (obsolete)
11. To set to work
12. To set in operation
13. To incite
14. To turn on the supply of
15. To score
16. To stage
17. See also well put on below

put on to

1. To make aware of
2. To connect with by telephone

put out

1. To expel
2. To dismiss from a game and innings
3. To send out
4. To stretch out
5. To extinguish
6. To place (money) at interest
7. To expand
8. To publish
9. To disconcert
10. To inconvenience
11. To offend
12. To dislocate
13. To exert
14. To produce
15. To place with others or at a distance
16. To go out to sea, leave port
17. To remove bodily or blind (an eye)
18. To render unconscious (slang)
19. (of a woman) to be willing to grant sexual favours (slang, orig N American)

put over

1. To refer (Shakespeare)
2. To carry through successfully
3. To impress an audience, spectators, the public, favourably with
4. To impose, pass off

put paid to see under paid

put the make on see under make¹

put through

1. To bring to an end
2. To accomplish
3. To put in telephonic communication
4. To cause to undergo or suffer
5. To process (computing)

putting the shot, stone or weight

The act or sport of hurling a heavy stone or weight from the hand by a sudden thrust from the shoulder (see also putt¹)

put to

1. To apply
2. To add to
3. To connect with
4. To harness
5. To shut
6. To set to

put to death see under death

put to it

1. To press hard
2. To distress

put to rights see under right¹

put to sea

To begin a voyage

put to the sword see under sword

put two and two together

To draw a conclusion from various facts

put up

1. To accommodate with lodging
2. To take lodgings
3. To nominate or stand for election
4. To offer for sale
5. To present (eg a good game, a fight, or a defence, a prayer)
6. To stake
7. To parcel up
8. To supply and pack (an order, a picnic, etc)
9. To stow away, put aside
10. To sheathe
11. To settle beforehand
12. To compound
13. To endure tamely (obsolete)
14. To start (a hare) from cover

put-up job

A dishonest scheme prearranged usu by several people

put upon

1. To take undue advantage of
2. To impose on

put up to

1. To incite to
2. To make conversant with, to supply with useful information or tips about

put up with

To endure

stay put

To remain passively in the position assigned

well put on or (Scot) well putten on

Respectably dressed

putt¹ /put/

1. To hurl (a shot, stone or weight) in the sport of putting the shot (also put /put or pŭt/ (see put¹)
2. To hit (a golf ball) with a putter so that it rolls along the ground and towards, ideally into, the hole (also archaic put /put/)

To make a putt or putts

(in combination with a number) to take a given number of putts to put the ball in the hole, as in he four-putted (at) the last hole

1. A throw (also put /put or pŭt/ (see put¹)
2. A stroke made with a putter on, or sometimes near, a putting green (golf)

puttˈer noun

1. Someone who putts or can putt
2. A usu short-handled golf-club with an upright striking-face, used in putting

puttˈing noun

1. The exercise of hurling a heavy weight (also putting the shot (see under put¹); Scot)
2. The act or art of making a putt (golf)
3. A game played with putters and golf balls on a small course with several holes

puttˈing-cleek noun

An old-fashioned putter of cleek design, the blade long and narrow, running straight from the shaft

putting green noun

1. The turf, made firm and smooth for putting, round each of the holes of a golf course
2. A small golf course with several holes for practice or for putting as an informal game

puttˈing-stone see under put¹

putt out

To complete a hole in a round of golf by putting the ball into the hole