Put in Scrabble Dictionary

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3 letters words from 'put'

PUT 5

TUP 5

2 letters words from 'put'

UP 4

UT 2

Definitions and meaning of put

put

Etymology 1

From Middle English putten, 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-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“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”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”).

Alternative forms

• putt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͝ot, IPA^(key): /pʊt/, [pʰʊʔt]
• Rhymes: -ʊt

Verb

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)

1. To place something somewhere.
2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option.

4. To express something in a certain manner.
   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

     All this is ingeniously and ably put.

5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

   • His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.

9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

   • No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
    • 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.

11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.
12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• putten

Noun

put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
   • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange

     A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.

3. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
4. (uncountable) An old card game.

Translations

See also

• Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• call
• option

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/
• Homophone: putt

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
   • 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":

     Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,

     And of lost hospitality complain.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 244:

     The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

   • 1870, Frederic Harrison, "The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair," Fortnightly Review:

     Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

Etymology 3

Old French pute.

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

References

Anagrams

• PTU, TPU, UTP, tup

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put (plural putte)

1. well; pit

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈput/
• Rhymes: -ut

Verb

put

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pudir
2. second-person singular imperative form of pudir

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏt
• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏt/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

1. pit, well
2. drain

Derived terms

• afvoerput
• beerput
• opvangput
• putjesschepper
• putlucht
• regenput
• waterput

Descendants

• Afrikaans: put
• → Sranan Tongo: peti

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

put

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
2. imperative of putten

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Finnish

Interjection

put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

Verb

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

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Kalasha

Noun

put

1. Alternative spelling of putr

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Latvian

Verb

put

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of putēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of putēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of putēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of putēt

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Romanian

Verb

put

1. first-person singular present indicative of puți
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of puți
3. third-person plural present indicative of puți

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰuʰt̪/

Verb

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

1. push, shove
2. jostle
3. press

Derived terms

• put ann

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)

Mutation

Etymology 3

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
2. corpulent person; any bulging thing
3. shovelful, sod, spadeful
4. (medicine) bruised swelling

Mutation

References

• “put” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, →ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 284

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

Noun

pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. road

2. way

3. path

4. trip, journey

5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pût/

Noun

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

1. complexion, skin hue, tan

2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities

Declension

Etymology 3

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

Preposition

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)

1. to, toward

Etymology 4

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

Alternative forms

• (genitive plural) pútā

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

Adverb

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English foot.

Noun

put

1. foot

Source: wiktionary.org

• to place in position.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)