put
English
/pʊt/, /pʌt/
verb
Definitions
- To place something somewhere.
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- (finance) To exercise a put option.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English putten (put, push, shove) derived from Old English putian (push, thrust, place, put) derived from Proto-Germanic *putōną (stab, stick, push, poke) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (sprout, swell, shoot).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bud-
Gloss
sprout, swell, shoot
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- forthput English
- forthputting English
- input English
- inputtable English
- inputter English
- log English
- misinput English
- multioutput English
- noninput English
- nonoutput English
- off English
- off-putting English
- offput English
- offputting English
- out English
- output English
- outputter English
- overput English
- putable English
- putback English
- putlog English
- putout English
- puttable English
- putten English
- puttest English
- putteth English
- putting English
- reinput English
- reput English
- through English
- throughput English
- thru English
- thruput English
- toput English
- underput English
- unput English
- up-putting English
- throughput Italian
- lospeuteren Dutch, Flemish
- neuspeuteren Dutch, Flemish
- peuteren Dutch, Flemish
- poten Dutch, Flemish
- *bud- Proto-Indo-European
- input Portuguese
- *putōną Proto-Germanic
- アウトプット Japanese
- インプット Japanese
- potian Old English
- putian Old English
- pytan Old English
- inputten Middle English
- overputten Middle English
- putten Middle English
- pota Old Norse
- pota Icelandic
- pōten Middle Dutch
- պտուկ Old Armenian
- պտուղ Old Armenian
- *poton Old Dutch
- *pōtōn Frankish
- ইনপুট Bengali
- putim Tok Pisin
- poti Sranan Tongo
- off
- log
- out
- back
- thru
- unput
- input
- toput
- reput
- offput
- putout
- putlog
- putten
- output
- through
- putteth
- putable
- puttest
- putting
- thruput
- reinput
- overput
- putback
- misinput
- forthput
- noninput
- puttable
- underput
- inputter
- nonoutput
- outputter
- throughput
- inputtable
- up-putting
- offputting
- off-putting
- multioutput
- forthputting