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Definition of Put
Put

A pit.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

of Put

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).

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.

To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

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.

To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

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.

To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

A certain game at cards.

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.

A prostitute.

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Put Quotations

See what I have to put up with every night?
Sean Hannity

We put a lot of work into three minutes.
Dave Foley

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy

I would put my million dollars up as well.
James Randi

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Put Translations

put in Afrikaans is sit
put in Dutch is aanspannen
put in Finnish is panna
put in German is legen, bitte/legen, ausgeben, setzen, stellen
put in Italian is mettere, posare, mettere, dare
put in Latin is pono posui positum, colloco, loco
put in Portuguese is colocar, posto, meter, por
put in Spanish is sentar, meter


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