Dictionary Definition
put n : the option to sell a given stock (or
stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given
date [syn: put option]
[ant: call
option]
Verb
1 put into a certain place or abstract location;
"Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the
scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
[syn: set, place, pose, position, lay]
2 cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in
a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"
3 formulate in a particular style or language; "I
wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
language" [syn: frame,
redact, cast, couch]
4 attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis
on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job";
"The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the
story" [syn: assign]
7 cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put
her to the torture"
8 adapt; "put these words to music"
9 arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;
"arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories
with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, order] [also: putting]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
putte, from putianPronunciation
- , /pʊt/, /pUt/
-
- Rhymes: -ʊt
Verb
- To place something
somewhere
- She put her books on the table.
- 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.
- He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- Put your horse in order!
- In the context of "stock market": To exercise a put option
- He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- To express something
in a certain manner
- When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- To throw a heavy iron ball. See shot put.
Derived terms
- put about
- put across
- put aside
- put away
- put back
- put by
- put down
- put end
- put forth
- put forward
- put in
- put in practice
- put into
- put off
- put on
- put on airs
- put one over
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- put out
- put out feelers
- put over
- put through
- put to
- put together
- put to rest
- put two and two together
- put under
- put up
- put up with
- put upon
- put with
- put wise
- put words in someone's mouth
Related terms
Translations
to place something somewhere
- Chinese: 放 (fàng)
- Esperanto: meti
- French: placer, mettre
- German: setzen, stellen, legen
- Irish: cuir
- Italian: mettere
- Korean: 두다
- Portuguese: pôr, colocar, botar
- Russian: класть
- Spanish: poner, colocar, situar
to bring or set into a certain relation, state
or condition
stock market, to excercise a put option
to express something in a certain manner
- Albanian: vë
- Arabic: (wáɖaʕa)
- Catalan: posar, pondre
- Chinese: 放 (fàng), 放置 (fàngzhì)
- Croatian: posaditi, staviti, položiti
- Czech: posadit, stavět, položit
- Dutch: zetten (plaatsen)
- Finnish: tehdä, rakentaa, panna (1), pistää (1), laittaa (1)
- Greek, Ancient: τίθημι (tithemi)
- Greek, Modern: θέτω (theto)
- Hungarian: tesz, rak, helyez
- Ido: pozar
- Indonesian: meletakkan, menaruh
- Japanese: 置く (おく, oku)
- Kurdish:
- Manx: cur
- Romanian: pune
- Scottish Gaelic: cuir
- Sindhi: (gherrann), (gherraainn)
- Swedish: lägga (to put something flat) (1), ställa (to put something upright) (1), placera (1,2), göra iordning (2)
Noun
See also
- pedialite Stock option
- call
- option
Bosnian
Croatian
Declension
Dutch
Pronunciation
- lang=nl|/'pɵt/
French
Etymology 1
From pouvoirVerb form
Etymology 2
From paîtreVerb form
Serbian
Alternative spellings
- qualifier Serbian Cyrillic
Extensive Definition
Put can refer to:
- Petroleum University of Technology, a university in Abadan, Ahvaz, Mahmud Abad and Tehran, Iran
- Put option, a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the seller of the option
- The biblical Put, the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah. See the article Phut
- The FTP option that copies a file from the local system to the remote system (as compared to "get")
- Put (band), from Rijeka, Croatia
PUT may also be an acronym referring to:
- Products Under Test, products being considered for DivX certification
- Poznań University of Technology, a university located in Poznań, Poland
put in Dutch: Put
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Boeotian, affirm, air, allege, announce, annunciate, apply, approximate, argue, ascribe, assert, assess, assever, asseverate, assign, attach, attribute, aver, avouch, avow, block, blockhead, boob, bowl, burden with, buy in, buy
into, call, cast, catapult, change of pace,
change-up, charge,
chuck, chunk, clod, conceive, concenter, concentrate, contend, couch, couch in terms, couched, curve, dart, dash, declare, demand, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, downcurve, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, embody in words, enjoin, enunciate, establish, exact, express, expressed, fastball, fasten upon, financier, fire, fix, fixate, fling, flip, focus, fork, formularize, formulate, formulated, forward pass,
frame, freight with,
give, give expression to,
give words to, gowk,
have, heave, hold, hurl, hurtle, idiot, impose, impose on, impose upon,
impute, incurve, inflict on, inflict
upon, insist, invest, invest in, issue a
manifesto, jerk, jobbernowl, judge, knuckleball, lackwit, lamebrain, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, lay, lay down, lay on, lay out
money, let fly, levy,
lightweight,
lob, looby, loon, maintain, make an investment,
manifesto, moron, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, option, outcurve, paragraph, park, pass, peg, pelt, phrase, phrased, pitch, pitchfork, place, plow back into, plunge, pose, posit, post, predicate, prefer, present, presented, proclaim, profess, pronounce, proposition, propound, protest, put and call, put down,
put in words, put it, put on, put the shot, put upon, reckon, refer, reinvest, render, rhetorize, right, risk, rivet, saddle with, say, screwball, seat, serve, service, set, set down, set out, settle, shot-put, shy, simpleton, sink, sink money in, sinker, slider, sling, snap, speak, speak out, speak up,
speculate, spitball, spitter, spread, stand for, stand on,
state, station, stick, stock option, straddle, strap, strip, stupid, style, styled, subject to, submit, suggest, task, tax, thickwit, throw, tilt, toss, transpose, turn, upcurve, vent, ventilate, venture, weight down with,
witling, word, worded, yoke
with