poner

Sentences

Está a favor de poner fin
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a la Reserva Federal .

He is in favor of ending the Federal Reserve.

Un campanillazo solía poner término
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a nuestra conversación .

A bell used to end our conversation.

Meaning

(transitive) to put, to put up, to place, to lay
(transitive) to set, to set up (e.g. set an alarm, set up chairs)
(transitive) to put on (e.g. put on a smile, a happy face, a brave face; put on a pot of coffee, put something on display)
(transitive) to choose, to designate (for a job, charge or responsibility)
(transitive) to make (e.g. make somebody nervous, jealous, sad, emotional, uncomfortable)
(transitive) to make, to give (in certain phrases; e.g. to make available, give an injection, to give effect)
(transitive) to say, to read (statement: indicate in written form)
(transitive) to name, to give a nickname
(transitive) to bring (e.g. to bring online, to bring order to, to bring up to speed or date, to bring to light)
(transitive) to lay (e.g. to lay eggs, lay the foundation or groundwork)
(transitive) to turn, to turn on (e.g. to turn the other cheek, turn on music, to turn upside-down)
(transitive) to get (in certain phrases)
(transitive) to call (in certain phrases; e.g. to call into question, call into doubt, call somebody's bluff)
(transitive) to pay (attention)
(transitive) to draw (e.g. to draw a line or set up a boundary)
(transitive) to plant, to set up (e.g. plant one's feet, plant a bomb, set up explosives, plant a bug, set up a camera, plant a weapon)
(slang, transitive) to contribute; to bring
to play
(Spain, colloquial, transitive) to turn on, make horny
(reflexive) to put on, to don, to change into (clothing, shoes, accoutrements)
(reflexive) to get
(reflexive) (of a heavenly body) to set (i.e., to sink beneath the horizon)
(reflexive) to become, to get ("become" is used in reference to entering into a physical or emotional state) (e.g. become anxious, fashionable, naughty, nervous, offensive, pale, sad, serious, stern, tense, ugly, violent, weird, etc.)
(reflexive) to start doing something, to begin, to get down to (+ a + infinitive)
(reflexive) to put oneself