put

Less common meanings

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   throw the shotverbtransitive

   In athletics, to throw a heavy ball by pushing it from your shoulder.

   He put the shot beyond the twenty-meter mark.

   She learned to put the shot at school.

   UsageUsually put the shot. The past tense is also put: she put it 15 meters.

   Similarthrow, heave, hurl

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    nouncountable or uncountable

    A deal that lets you sell shares or other assets at a fixed price, by or on a set date.

    A put lets you sell the shares at a set price.

    He bought a put to protect his holding.

    Oppositecall

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    throw the shotnouncountable or uncountable

    A push or a throw, for example of a ball.

    His second put was his longest of the day.

    Her best put landed just short of the school record.

    Similarthrow, thrust, heave, push

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    sailverbintransitive

    Used about a ship or its sailors, to head in a certain direction.

    The fleet will put to sea at dawn.

    The little boat put in at a quiet harbor for the night.

    UsageSay the ship put to sea: it left.

    Similarsail, head, steer, set

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    give upverbobsolete

    To give up or hand over something, such as your life.

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

    c. 1382, John Wycliffe [et al.], The Holy BibleHere, put means to give up or lay down.

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    verbobsolete

    To push or force someone to do something.

    These wretches put us upon all mischief.

    1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer EllistonHere, put means to push or urge someone toward something.

    Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge

    1667, John Milton, Paradise LostHere, puts means forces or pushes someone to do something.

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    SayPUT/pʌt/

    nounobsolete

    An old word for a fellow, especially an odd or elderly one.

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

    1733, James Bramston, The Man of TasteHere, puts means odd old fellows.

    Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

    1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”Here, puts means odd fellows or silly chaps.

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    SayPUT/pʌt/

    nounobsolete

    An old word for a prostitute.

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

    1953, Samuel Beckett, WattHere, put is an old word for a prostitute.

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    not movingadjectivecolloquial

    Not moving from where you are. Used after words like stay, sit, or keep.

    Stay put while I go get the car.

    Our dog stays put when we tell her to wait.

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    verb

    In finance, to sell shares under a put option.
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    verb

    In mining, to move coal from the coal face to the tramway.
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    verb

    To play a card in the old game of put.
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    noun

    A card game from long ago.

    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.

    1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”