put
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: puts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: put
pos: verb
tags: past
form: put
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: putten
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: put
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: put
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: put
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: put
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: puttest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: put
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: puttedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: puts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: put
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: put
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: put
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: put
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: put
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: put
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: putting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: put
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: putt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To physically place (sth or sb swh).
pos: verb
examples: She put her books on the table.
The police put him in a cell.
They put the new motorway right through the national park.
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.
‘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.’
gloss: To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
pos: verb
examples: The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
I put £100 on the winning horse.
Don't put the blame on me.
What answer did you put for question 3?
to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
That seems like a bad idea put against the restrictions we're working under.
gloss: To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
pos: verb
examples: Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
Put your house in order!
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
The doctor's put me on a strict diet.
Put the following sentences into the past tense.
put to bed; put to shame; put to death; put into practice; put one's mind to it
gloss: To express (something in a certain manner).
pos: verb
examples: When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
To put it simply, we can't afford it.
All this is ingeniously and ably put.
gloss: To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
pos: verb
examples: I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
to put a question; to put a case
1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
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.
gloss: To set as a calculation or estimate.
pos: verb
examples: They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
gloss: To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
pos: verb
examples: to put to sea
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
gloss: To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
pos: verb
examples: He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
gloss: To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
pos: verb
tags: especially
examples: He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
gloss: To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
pos: verb
gloss: To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
gloss: To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: These wretches put us upon all mischief.
Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
gloss: To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
pos: verb
Related words: putten
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