English Explanatory Dictionary

put

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To physically place (sth or sb swh).
  2. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
  3. To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
  4. To express (something in a certain manner).
  5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
  6. To set as a calculation or estimate.
  7. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  8. To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
  9. To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
  10. To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
  11. To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  12. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)
  2. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
  3. An old card game.
noun
  1. A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
noun
  1. A prostitute.
noun
  1. Acronym of parameterized unit test.
  2. Acronym of parameterized unit testing.
  3. Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.
  4. Initialism of person using television.

Pronunciation

po͝ot /pʊt/ [pʰʊʔt] en-uk-to put.ogg en-us-put.ogg /pʌt/ /pʉt/

Word forms

put puts putting putten no-table-tags glossary puttest puttedst putteth putt

Etymology

From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, 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-West Germanic *putōn, 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”), Low German paten (“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”).

Synonyms

locate programmable UJT

Related words

putten call option transistor unijunction transistor BJT FET JFET MOSFET QFET

Derived words

don't put all your eggs in one basket enough to put in one's eye force-put forthput hard put input I put it to you mama put misput never put off until tomorrow what you can do today not to put a tooth in it not to put too fine a point on it not to put too fine a word on it offput off-put output overput put a band-aid on a bullet wound put a blanket over putable put a block on put about put a brave face on put a bug in someone's ear put a civil tongue in one's head put a civil tongue in one's mouth put a cork in it put a crimp in put across put a damper on put a dent in the universe put a foot wrong put a gun to someone's head put a hat on a hat put ahead put a hurt on put a lid on put a lid on it put all one's eggs in one basket put a name to put and take put-and-take put an egg in one's shoe and beat it put an end to put a pin in put a premium on put a rod in pickle put around put a shift in put aside put a sock in it put a spanner in the works put a spoke in someone's wheel put a stopper to put a stop to put asunder put at ease put away put-back put back
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