put

Verb

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)

1. To physically place (sth or sb swh).
   • She put her books on the table.
   • The police put him in a cell.

   Synonyms:

   locate

2. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
   • The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
   • I put £100 on the winning horse.
3. To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
   • Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 11
   • Put your house in order!
4. To express (something in a certain manner).
   • When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
   • To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
   • I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
   • to put a question; to put a case
6. To set as a calculation or estimate.
   • They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
7. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
   • to put to sea
   • His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
8. To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
   • He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
9. (especially) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
   • He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
10. To play a card or a hand in the game called “put”.
11. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
    • No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, John 15:13, page 280
12. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • These wretches put us upon all mischief.1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
    • Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
13. To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Noun (1)

put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
   • the put of a ball
   • The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
2. (uncountable) 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.1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor

Noun (2)

IPA/pʌt/

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
   • Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
     And of lost hospitality complain.1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste
   • The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244

Noun (3)

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Noun (4) capitalized: PUT

PUT (countable and uncountable, plural PUTs)

1. (abbreviation, acronym, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit test.
2. (abbreviation, acronym, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit testing.
3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.
4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of person using television.