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Put

verb

(past put; past part. put; pres. part. putting)

1.

Put into a certain place or abstract location. Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set. "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"

2.

Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation. "Put your ideas in writing"

3.

Formulate in a particular style or language. Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact. "She cast her request in very polite language"

4.

Attribute or give. Synonym: assign. "He put all his efforts into this job" , "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"

5.

Make an investment. Synonyms: commit, invest, place.

6.

Estimate. Synonyms: place, set.

7.

Cause (someone) to undergo something.

8.

Adapt.

9.

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. Synonyms: arrange, order, set up. "Set up one's life" , "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

noun

1.

The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date. Synonym: put option.

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... irreconcilable. He had not yet begun by the use of his will—constantly indeed mistaking impulse for will—to blend the conflicting elements of his nature into one. He was therefore a man much as the mass of flour and raisins, etc., when first put into the bag, is a plum-pudding; and had to pass through something analogous to boiling to give him a chance of becoming worthy of the name he would have arrogated. But in his own estimate of himself he claimed always the virtues of ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... startling answer to the question you put me before we first left your house. You asked then if the child in the wagon was Gwendolen. How could it have been she with this evidence before us of her having been concealed here at the very time that wagon was being driven ...

— The Millionaire Baby • Anna Katharine Green

... gladly,' I answered, 'if you think the change will amuse you, and if you will put off the journey till ...

— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte

... you know why," he returned; "you're pretty much of a tenderfoot, but I reckon Judge Graney has put you wise to the situation. There ain't nobody wants to buy ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... purpose beside that of establishing Israel's family purity in taking the census at Arbot-Moab. For when God at the exodus from Egypt put his people into Moses' hands, He entrusted them to him after having counted them, and not when Moses was about to depart from this world, he wanted to return the flock that God had entrusted to him, truly numbered, ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

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