Pronunciations (8)
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/pʊt/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- General-American
- New-Zealand
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[pʰʊʔt]
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- Australia
- General-American
- New-Zealand
- Received-Pronunciation
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/pɵt/
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- British
- Southern
- Standard
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[pʰɵʔt]
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- Southern
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/pʉt/
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- Northern-Ireland
- Scotland
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/pʌt/
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- Southern-US
- obsolete
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/pʌt/
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pʊt
Verb
To physically place (sth or sb swh).
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She put her books on the table.
The police put him in a cell.
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They put the new motorway right through the national park.
Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
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The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
I put £100 on the winning horse.
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Don't put the blame on me.
What answer did you put for question 3?
to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
That seems like a bad idea put against the restrictions we're working under.
To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
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Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
Put your house in order!
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He is putting all his energy into this one task.
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
The doctor's put me on a strict diet.
Put the following sentences into the past tense.
put to bed; put to shame; put to death; put into practice; put one's mind to it
To express (something in a certain manner).
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When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
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To put it simply, we can't afford it.
All this is ingeniously and ably put.
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
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I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
to put a question; to put a case
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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.
The exact question being put to voters for a yes or no answer is: “Should Iceland reopen accession negotiations with the European Union?”
To set as a calculation or estimate.
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They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
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to put to sea
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
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He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
Usage- especially
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He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
To play a card or a hand in the game called “put”.
To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
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No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
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These wretches put us upon all mischief.
Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
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Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
Noun
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
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the put of a ball
The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
An old card game.
Usage- Uncountable
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Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
Noun
A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
Usage- Obsolete
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Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.
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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.
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.
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Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
Noun
A prostitute.
Usage- Obsolete
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And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
Noun
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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Verb
put into a certain place or abstract location
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Put your things here
Set the tray down
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Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Place emphasis on a certain point
cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
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That song put me in awful good humor
put your ideas in writing
formulate in a particular style or language
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I wouldn't put it that way
She cast her request in very polite language
attribute or give
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She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
He put all his efforts into this job
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The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
make an investment
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Put money into bonds
estimate
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We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.
cause (someone) to undergo something
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He put her to the torture
adapt
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put these words to music
arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
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arrange my schedule
set up one's life
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I put these memories with those of bygone times