Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A pit.
- 2
3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
- 3noun
A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
- 4past tense & past participle
of Put
- 5transitive 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).
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
- 8transitive verb
To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- 9transitive 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.
- 10transitive verb
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- 11transitive 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.
- 12transitive verb
To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
- 13intransitive verb
To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
- 14intransitive verb
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- 15intransitive verb
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- 16noun
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
- 17noun
A certain game at cards.
- 18noun
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.
- 19noun
A prostitute.
- 20noun
the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- 21verb
estimate
"We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
- 22verb
arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
"arrange my schedule"
"set up one's life"
- 23verb
formulate in a particular style or language
"I wouldn't put it that way"
"She cast her request in very polite language"
- 24verb
attribute or give
"She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"
"He put all his efforts into this job"
Synonyms
- 25verb
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"
- 26verb
put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"
"Set the tray down"
- 27verb
adapt
"put these words to music"
- 28verb
cause (someone) to undergo something
"He put her to the torture"
- 29verb
make an investment
"Put money into bonds"
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