put

To physically place (something or someone somewhere).

She put her books on the table.

The police put him in a cell.

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

The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.

I put £100 on the winning horse.

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

Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,

Put your house in order!

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.

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

Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)

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

c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

the put of a ball

The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.

An old card game.

Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.

A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.

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.