PUT (putting)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put mean? 

• PUT (noun)
  The noun PUT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PUT used as a noun is very rare.

• PUT (verb)
  The verb PUT has 9 senses:

1. put into a certain place or abstract location

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

3. formulate in a particular style or language

4. attribute or give

5. make an investment

6. estimate

7. cause (someone) to undergo something

8. adapt

9. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

  Familiarity information: PUT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

put; put option

Hypernyms ("put" is a kind of...):

option (the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited)

Holonyms ("put" is a part of...):

span; straddle (the act of sitting or standing astride)

• PUT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a certain place or abstract location

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lay; place; pose; position; put; set

Context example:

Place emphasis on a certain point

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put"):

instal; install; put in; set up (set up for use)

appose (place side by side or in close proximity)

plant; set (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)

recline (cause to recline)

place upright; stand; stand up (put into an upright position)

lay; put down; repose (put in a horizontal position)

seat (place in or on a seat)

seat; sit; sit down (show to a seat; assign a seat for)

upend (set, turn, or stand on end)

pillow; rest (rest on or as if on a pillow)

ground (place or put on the ground)

barrel (put in barrels)

bucket (put into a bucket)

bottle (put into bottles)

set down (put or settle into a position)

juxtapose (place side by side)

misplace (place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position)

seed; sow (place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth)

place down; put down; set down (cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place)

set (put into a position that will restore a normal state)

imbricate (place so as to overlap)

throw (to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly)

settle; settle down (settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground)

marshal (place in proper rank)

space (place at intervals)

glycerolise; glycerolize (place in glycerol)

position (cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation)

seat (place or attach firmly in or on a base)

siphon (move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action)

deposit; fix; posit; situate (put (something somewhere) firmly)

cram (put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled)

load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance)

perch (cause to perch or sit)

rest (put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying)

clap (put quickly or forcibly)

lean (cause to lean or incline)

poise (cause to be balanced or suspended)

ladle (put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle)

plant (place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive)

dispose (place or put in a particular order)

ensconce; settle (fix firmly)

park (place temporarily)

superpose (place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide)

lay over; superimpose; superpose (place on top of)

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

pile (place or lay as if in a pile)

nestle; snuggle (position comfortably)

intersperse (place at intervals in or among)

coffin (place into a coffin)

stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)

put back; replace (put something back where it belongs)

step (place (a ship's mast) in its step)

prepose (place before another constituent in the sentence)

postpose (place after another constituent in the sentence)

cock (set the trigger of a firearm back for firing)

docket (place on the docket for legal action)

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

emplace (provide a new emplacement for guns)

bed (put to bed)

rack up (place in a rack)

tee; tee up (place on a tee)

throw; thrust (place or put with great energy)

reposition (place into another position)

recess (put into a recess)

butt (place end to end without overlapping)

parallelize (place parallel to one another)

middle (put in the middle)

sign (place signs, as along a road)

repose (to put something (eg trust) in something)

jar (place in a cylindrical vessel)

shelve (place on a shelf)

pigeonhole (place into a small compartment)

trench (set, plant, or bury in a trench)

underlay (put (something) under or beneath)

ship (place on board a ship)

emplace (put into place or position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They put the bags on the table

Also:

put up (place so as to be noticed)

put together (create by putting components or members together)

put over (hold back to a later time)

put on (apply to a surface)

put off (hold back to a later time)

put down (cause to come to the ground)

put down (put in a horizontal position)

put back (cost a certain amount)

put back (put something back where it belongs)

put away (lock up or confine, in or as in a jail)

put across (transmit information)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

put your ideas in writing

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put"):

put to sleep (help someone go to bed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Also:

put down (reduce in worth or character, usually verbally)

put up (preserve in a can or tin)

put under (administer an anesthetic drug to)

put to sleep (kill gently, as with an injection)

put through (connect by telephone)

put through (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue)

put out (deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion)

put out (administer an anesthetic drug to)

put off (take away the enthusiasm of)

put off (cause to feel embarrassment)

put away (kill gently, as with an injection)

put out (put out, as of a candle or a light)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Formulate in a particular style or language

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cast; couch; frame; put; redact

Context example:

She cast her request in very polite language

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Attribute or give

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

assign; put

Context example:

The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put"):

repose (put or confide something in a person or thing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make an investment

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

commit; invest; place; put

Context example:

Put money into bonds

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put"):

fund (invest money in government securities)

roll over (re-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security)

shelter (invest (money) so that it is not taxable)

tie up (invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes)

job; speculate (invest at a risk)

buy into (buy stocks or shares of a company)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Estimate

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

place; put; set

Context example:

We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cause (someone) to undergo something

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

He put her to the torture

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

subject (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 8

Meaning:

Adapt

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

put these words to music

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

arrange; set (adapt for performance in a different way)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 9

Meaning:

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

arrange; order; put; set up

Context example:

I put these memories with those of bygone times

Hypernyms (to "put" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put"):

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (arrange or represent events so that they co-occur)

phrase (divide, combine, or mark into phrases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Miss Miller signed to me to sit on a bench near the door, then walking up to the top of the long room she cried out—Monitors, collect the lesson-books and put them away!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To make the vaccine, the GM-CSF gene is put into breast cancer cells in the laboratory.

(Allogeneic GM-CSF-Secreting Breast Cancer Vaccine, NCI Dictionary)

A question about whether an individual is or was able to put their thoughts together.

(Able to Put Thoughts Together, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual is or was able to put their thoughts into action.

(Able to Put Thoughts into Actions, NCI Thesaurus)

The Commission has put 4 million Euros towards it and we seem in not too much of a rush for the results, nor shocked that they were supposed to return them.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

I wrote to her, but got no answer. After that I came over, and, as letters were no use, I put my messages where she could read them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Using the catheter, radioactive seeds are put into the balloon twice a day for five days and removed each time.

(Balloon Brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)

Doing the same kinds of movements every day or putting stress on joints increases your risk.

(Bursitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A terminology codelist that describes syndromes or conditions that put a subject at risk for sudden death.

(CDISC SDTM Sudden Death Syndrome Type Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI Short Form) On the diagram, put an X on the area that hurts the most.

(BPI Short Form - Area that Hurts Most, NCI Thesaurus)