PUT
\pˈʊt], \pˈʊt], \p_ˈʊ_t]\
Definitions of PUT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
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adapt; "put these words to music"
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cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"
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cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"
By Princeton University
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estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
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adapt; "put these words to music"
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cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"
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cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A pit.
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3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
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A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
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of Put
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To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
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To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
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To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
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To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
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To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
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To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
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To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
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To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
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To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
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To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
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To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
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The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
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A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.
By Oddity Software
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To place; to lay; as, to put a book on the table; to cause to be in any state or condition; as, to put to shame; to put to flight; state; propose; as, to put a question; apply; as, to put one's mind on one's work; lay or deposit; as, to put money in a bank; throw in; state in words; as, to put one's thought into writing; shoot out or send forth.
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A push; throw; thrust.
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Put.
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Putting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To push or thrust: to drive into action: to throw suddenly, as a word: to set, lay, or deposit: to bring into any state: to offer: to propose: to apply: to oblige: to incite: to add.
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To place: to turn:-pr.p. putting (poot'-); pa.t. and pa.p. put.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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