Definition of Put

Put A pit. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person. of Put 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). 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. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. 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. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. 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. To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. To steer; to direct one's course; to go. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. A certain game at cards. 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. A prostitute. Related Definitions: Acceptance, Act, Action, Air, Amount, An, And, Another, Any, Assign, As, Aside, Assume, At, Athletics, Attach, Attention, Attribute, Awkward, Ball, Be, Before, Being, Bring, By, Called, Card, Case, Cast, Cause, Certain, Clown, Coal, Condition, Constrain, Construction, Contracted, Convey, Course, Date, Deliver, Direct, Direction, Divert, Down, Enemy, Entice, Except, Exist, Express, Expression, Fear, Fight, First, Followed, For, Formerly, Forth, From, Game, Give, Go, Grain, Hand, Him, Impel, In, Incite, Introducing, Judgment, Lay, Like, Mental, Mine, Moral, Motion, Move, Movement, Nearly, Oblige, Obsolete, Of, Offer, On, One, Or, Out, Overhand, Party, Pers, Person, Pit, Place, Play, Position, Practice, Price, Privilege, Proposition, Prostitute, Push, Pushing, Put, Putting, Question, Raised, Rejection, Relation, Rustic, Set, Shot, Shoulder, Sing, Sometimes, Specified, State, Stated, Steer, Stock, Suppose, Surrender, That, The, Theory, Throw, Thrust, To, Tramway, Uncouth, Up, Urge, Weight, When, Which, With, Working, Wrong

Put Quotations An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Buddha To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. Marilyn Monroe Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Mother Teresa Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Thomas Jefferson No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. Thomas Jefferson Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. Wayne Dyer The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan

Put Translations put in Afrikaans is sit put in Dutch is aanspannen put in Finnish is panna put in German is legen, bitte/legen, ausgeben, setzen, stellen put in Italian is mettere, posare, mettere, dare put in Latin is pono posui positum, colloco, loco put in Portuguese is colocar, posto, meter, por put in Spanish is sentar, meter