put¹ /pŭt/

1. To place, or cause to be, in such and such a position, state, predicament, relation, etc
2. To set
3. To place, lay or deposit
4. To apply
5. To append or affix
6. To connect
7. To add
8. To commit
9. To assign
10. To start (someone on eg a diet, a study or a track)
11. To push or thrust
12. (also putt) to cast, throw or hurl (esp by a thrusting movement of the hand from the shoulder)
13. To drive
14. To impel
15. To convey or transport
16. To force or constrain
17. To incite
18. To subject
19. To reduce
20. To convert
21. To render
22. To express
23. To assert
24. To propound
25. To submit to a vote
26. To impose
27. To impute
28. To call on, oblige, stake, venture or invest
29. To repose (eg trust, confidence)

1. To thrust (archaic or Scot and N Eng)
2. To proceed, make one's way (nautical)
3. To set out, esp hurriedly
4. To flow (US)

1. A push or thrust
2. (also putt) a throw, esp of a heavy object from the shoulder
3. On the Stock Exchange, an option of selling within a certain time certain securities or commodities, at a stipulated price (also put option)

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

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