put

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”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). 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”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”).

• enPR: po͝ot, IPA^(key): /pʊt/, [pʰʊʔt]

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• Rhymes: -ʊt

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

1. To place something somewhere.

   She put her books on the table.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎:

     ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

2. 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.

   She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option.

   He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

4. To express something in a certain manner.

   When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Hare

     All this is ingeniously and ably put.

5. (athletics) 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.

   to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13

     No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

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

    to put a question; to put a case

    • (Can we date this quote?) Berkeley

      Put the perception and you put the mind.

    • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

      These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.

    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

      Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.

11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.

    • (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott

      Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.

    • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

      Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.

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

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put (plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

   He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Johnson's Cyc.

     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.

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

   the put of a ball

   • (Can we date this quote?) L'Estrange

     The stag's was a forc'd put, and a chance rather than a choice.

4. An old card game.

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Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt.

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer.
   • 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":

     Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,

     And of lost hospitality complain.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 244:

     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.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

   • 1870, Frederic Harrison, "The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair," Fortnightly Review:

     Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

Old French pute.

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

• UTP, tup

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-Germanic *putjaz, from Latin puteus.

put (plural putte)

1. well; pit

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈput/
• Rhymes: -ut

put

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pudir
2. second-person singular imperative form of pudir

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• Rhymes: -ʏt
• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏt/

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-Germanic *putjaz, from Latin puteus.

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

1. pit, well
2. drain

• afvoerput
• beerput
• opvangput
• putjesschepper
• putlucht
• regenput
• waterput

• Afrikaans: put
• → Sranan Tongo: peti

See the etymology of the main entry.

put

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
2. imperative of putten

put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

• IPA^(key): /py/

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• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

put

1. Alternative spelling of putr

put

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of putēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of putēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of putēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of putēt

put

1. first-person singular present indicative of puți
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of puți
3. third-person plural present indicative of puți

• IPA^(key): /pʰuʰt̪/

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

1. push, shove
2. jostle
3. press

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put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)
2. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
3. corpulent person; any bulging thing
4. shovelful, sod, spadeful
5. (medicine) bruised swelling

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.
Cognate with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. road

   put za Sarajevo — road to Sarajevo

   gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? — where does this road lead?

2. way

   ovim putem — this way

   ići pravim putem — to go the right way

   vodeni put — waterway

   ići svojim putem — to go one's own way

   stati nekome na put — to stand in somebody's way

   teret je na putu — cargo is on the way

   miči mi se s puta! — get out of my way!

   najkraći put do bolnice — the shortest way to the hospital

   na pola puta do škole — halfway to the school

3. path

   krčiti put — to clear a path

   put do usp(j)eha — the path to success

4. trip, journey

   ići na put — to go on a trip

   biti na putu — to be on a trip

   put oko sv(ij)eta — a trip around the world

   poslovni put — a business trip

5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means

   sudskim putem — by legal means; through court order

   službenim/zvaničnim putem — through official channels

   Ml(ij)ečni put — Milky Way

From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

• IPA^(key): /pût/

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

1. complexion, skin hue, tan

   sv(ij)etla put — fair complexion/tan

   tamna put — dark complexion/tan

   crna put — black complexion/tan

2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities

   mlada put — a young body

   gladna put — a hungry body

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)

1. to, toward

   put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo

   put škole ― to school

   Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.

   Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

• (genitive plural) pútā

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)

   prvi put — the first time, for the first time

   drugi put — the second time, for the second time; another time

   ovaj put — this time

   sljedeći/sledeći put — the next time

   posljednji/poslednji put — the last time

   po stoti put — for the hundredth time

   svaki put — every time

From English foot.

put

1. foot