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Vinony

put

noun

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verb

  1. to cause something to be in a place or state
  2. to leave something at or on a place; to place, set
  3. result, attributive
  4. say
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pʊt/ / [pʰʊʔt] / /pɵt/

noun

Etymology: From Old French pute.

  1. A prostitute.

    “And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).

  1. To physically place (sth or sb swh).

    “She put her books on the table.”

    “The police put him in a cell.”

  2. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.

    “The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.”

    “I put £100 on the winning horse.”

  3. To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).

    “Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,”

    “Put your house in order!”

  4. 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.”

  5. 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”

  6. To set as a calculation or estimate.

    “They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.”

  7. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

    “to put to sea”

    “His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.”

  8. 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.”

  9. To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)

    “He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.”

  10. To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
  11. To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

    “No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.”

  12. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

    “These wretches put us upon all mischief.”

    “Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge”

  13. To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.