put🔊

To physically place (something or someone somewhere).

To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.

To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).

To express (something in a certain manner).

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

To set as a calculation or estimate.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

(finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.

(especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put.

To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".

(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

(business, finance) Right to sell something at a predetermined price.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

An old card game.

(obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

(obsolete) A prostitute.