put

put is a 3-letter English word with 29 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pit. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 29 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A pit.
2. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
3. noun. A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
4. past tense & past participle. of Put
5. transitive verb. 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).
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
8. transitive verb. To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. transitive verb. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. transitive verb. To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
13. intransitive verb. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
14. intransitive verb. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
15. intransitive verb. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
16. noun. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
17. noun. A certain game at cards.
18. noun. 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.
19. noun. A prostitute.
20. noun. the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
21. verb. estimate

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

    Synonyms: place, set

22. verb. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

    "arrange my schedule"

    "set up one's life"

    Synonyms: arrange, order

23. verb. formulate in a particular style or language

    "I wouldn't put it that way"

    "She cast her request in very polite language"

    Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact

24. verb. attribute or give

    "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"

    "He put all his efforts into this job"

    Synonyms: assign

25. verb. cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation

    "That song put me in awful good humor"

    "put your ideas in writing"

26. verb. put into a certain place or abstract location

    "Put your things here"

    "Set the tray down"

    Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set

27. verb. adapt

    "put these words to music"

28. verb. cause (someone) to undergo something

    "He put her to the torture"

29. verb. make an investment

    "Put money into bonds"

    Synonyms: commit, invest, place

Synonyms

place, set, arrange, order, cast, couch, frame, redact, assign, lay, pose, position, commit, invest

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in put:

tup

Common word forms

puts, puting, putted, putter, putting

Words from these letters

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