put

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Verb 1.1.2.1 Derived terms 1.1.2.2 Translations 1.1.3 Noun 1.1.3.1 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 1.3 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Derived terms 3 Finnish 3.1 Interjection 4 French 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Verb 5 Scottish Gaelic 5.1 Verb 5.1.1 Derived terms 5.2 Noun 6 Serbo-Croatian 6.1 Etymology 1 6.1.1 Noun 6.1.1.1 Declension 6.2 Etymology 2 6.2.1 Noun 6.2.1.1 Declension 7 Tok Pisin 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Noun

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[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English putten, from Old English pȳtan 'to put out, poke out', putung 'instigation, urging', akin to Danish putte 'to put', Swedish dial. putta 'id.', and further akin to Old Norse pauta, Old English potian 'to push', Middle Dutch/Middle Low German pōten 'to plant'.

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• enPR: poo͝t, IPA: /pʊt/, SAMPA: /pUt/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ʊt

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to put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle put)

1. To place something somewhere

   She put her books on the table.

2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition

   Put your horse in order!

   He is putting all his energy into this one task.

   She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option

   He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

4. To express something in a certain manner

   When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball as a sport. See shot put.

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put (plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

   He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.

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• Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Stock option
• call
• option

[edit] Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʌt/

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put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 244:

     The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ptu
• tup
• UTP

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'pɵt/

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put m. (plural putten, diminutive putje, diminutive plural putjes)

1. pit, well

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• waterput

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put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

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[edit] French

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• IPA: /py/, SAMPA: /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

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put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir.

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

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put (present participle form putadh)

1. to push, shove

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• put ann

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put m. (genitive puta, plural putan)

1. buoy

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь < Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.

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pȗt m. (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. road
2. way
3. path

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

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pȕt f. (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

1. skin colour; tan
2. body

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[edit] Tok Pisin

[edit] Etymology

From English foot.

[edit] Noun

put

1. foot