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put

UK/pʌt/ US/pʊt/ very common
verb (9) noun (1)

verb

1.

put into a certain place or abstract location

  • “Put your things here”
  • “Set the tray down”
  • “Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children”
  • “Place emphasis on a certain point”
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2.

cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation

  • “That song put me in awful good humor”
3.

formulate in a particular style or language

  • “I wouldn”
  • “;”
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4.

attribute or give

  • “She put too much emphasis on her the last statement”
  • “He put all his efforts into this job”
  • “The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story”
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5.

make an investment

  • “Put money into bonds”
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6.

estimate

  • “We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.”
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7.

cause (someone) to undergo something

  • “He put her to the torture”
8.

adapt

  • “put these words to music”
9.

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.

  • “arrange my schedule”
  • “set up one”
  • “;”
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noun

1.

the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

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Origin

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”).

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  • unijunction transistor

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