put

To physically place (something or somebody, in, at, around, etc. someplace)

• She put her books on the table.
• The police put him in a cell.

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

• The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
• I put £100 on the winning horse.

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

• Put your house in order!
• He is putting all his energy into this one task.

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.

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

To set as a calculation or estimate.

• They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.

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

• to put to sea

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.

To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)especially

• He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.

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

Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)abbreviationalt-ofcountable

• He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
• c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.

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

• the put of a ball

An old card game.uncountable

• 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.

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

• Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.
• 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.

A prostitute.obsolete

• And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.