put
/pʊt/ verb A1- To physically place (something or somebody, in, at, around, etc. someplace) · She put her books on the table.· The police put him in a cell.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign. · The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.· I put £100 on the winning horse.
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition). · Put your house in order!· He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- To express (something in a certain manner). · When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.· To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. · I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.· to put a question; to put a case
- To set as a calculation or estimate. · They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go. · to put to sea
- To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option. · He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
Plural put · He/she/it puts · Past put · Past participle put · -ing form putting
Verb forms
- Base form
- put
- He/she/it
- puts
- Past
- put
- Past participle
- put
- -ing form
- putting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- put about To change direction.
- put across to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
- put around Synonym of put about (“to circulate a rumor”).
- put aside Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, a...
- put away To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place o...
- put back To return something to its original place.
- put by To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for ...
- put down To insult, belittle, or demean.
- put forward To propose for consideration.
- put in To place inside.
- put off To postpone, especially through procrastination.
- put on To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
From the library
Now you say it and put my name in.”
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
“Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again.”
Then Dorothy and the Lion got up, and the girl helped the Tin Woodman put the straw back into the Scarecrow again, until he was as good as ever.
Other matches
- put The act of putting C2
- put about To change direction.
- put across to explain or state something clearly and under...
- put around Synonym of put about
- put aside Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- put away To put
- put back To return something to its original place.
- put by To store, or place in reserve
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