put

Meaning

1. To place something somewhere.
2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
3. To exercise a put option.
4. To express something in a certain manner.
5. To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.
9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
12. To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

place

set

put option

stick in

burden with

lie idle

pose a question

make use of

mount on

put on clothes

put onto

stick on

turn to account

pass oneself off

pierce through

put by

put in place

seller’s option

soak in water

stick into

put down,

posture

salt

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not placed

cause to

give voice

put in dans

fill insert

place deposit

act as

act for

add together

arrange for

be difficult

declare oneself

fit on

have down

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʊt/

From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).