/ pʊt; NAmE / verb
( put·ting , put , put ) [ vn ]
IN PLACE / POSITION
1.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to move sth into a particular place or position :
Put the cases down there, please.
Did you put sugar in my coffee?
Put your hand up if you need more paper.
2.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to move sth into a particular place or position using force :
He put his fist through a glass door.
3.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to cause sb/sth to go to a particular place :
Her family put her into a nursing home.
It was the year the Americans put a man on the moon.
ATTACH
4.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to attach or fix sth to sth else :
We had to put new locks on all the doors.
WRITE
5.
[usually + adv. / prep. ] to write sth or make a mark on sth :
Put your name here.
Friday at 11? I'll put it in my diary.
I couldn't read what she had put.
INTO STATE / CONDITION
6.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to bring sb/sth into the state or condition mentioned :
I was put in charge of the office.
The incident put her in a bad mood.
Put yourself in my position . What would you have done?
I tried to put the matter into perspective .
Don't go putting yourself at risk .
It was time to put their suggestion into practice .
This new injury will put him out of action for several weeks.
AFFECT SB / STH
7.
[+ adv. / prep. ] put sth on / onto / to sth to make sb/sth feel sth or be affected by sth :
Her new job has put a great strain on her.
They put pressure on her to resign.
It's time you put a stop to this childish behaviour.
GIVE VALUE / RANK
8.
put sth on sth to give or attach a particular level of importance, trust, value, etc. to sth :
Our company puts the emphasis on quality.
He put a limit on the amount we could spend.
9.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to consider sb/sth to belong to the class or level mentioned :
I'd put her in the top rank of modern novelists.
EXPRESS
10.
[+ adv. / prep. ] to express or state sth in a particular way :
She put it very tactfully.
Put simply , we accept their offer or go bankrupt.
I was, to put it mildly , annoyed (= I was extremely angry) .
He was too trusting—or, to put it another way , he had no head for business.
The meat was— how shall I put it? —a little overdone.
As T.S. Eliot puts it ...
She had never tried to put this feeling into words .
Can you help me put this letter into good English, please?
IN SPORT
11.
to throw the shot
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IDIOMS
Most idioms containing put are at the entries for the nouns and adjectives in the idioms, for example put your foot in it is at foot .
- put it about
- I wouldn't put it past sb (to do sth)
- put it to sb that ...
- put one over on sb
- put sb through it
- put together
- put up or shut up
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PHRASAL VERBS
- put sth about
- put sth above sth
- put yourself / sth across / over (to sb)
- put sth aside
- put sb/sth at sth
- put sb away
- put sth away
- put sth back
- put sth before / above sth
- put sth behind you
- put sth by
- put down
- put sb down
- put sth down
- put sb down as sth
- put sb down for sth
- put sth down to sth
- put sth forth
- put yourself / sb forward
- put sth forward
- put sb in
- put sth in
- put in (at ... ) | put into ...
- put in for sth
- put yourself / sb / sth in for sth
- put sth into sth
- put sb off
- put sb off sth/sb
- put sth off
- put sb on
- put sth on
- put sth on sth
- put sb onto sb/sth
- put out (for sb)
- put yourself out (for sb)
- put sb out
- put sth out
- put out (to ... / from ... )
- put yourself / sth over (to sb)
- put sth through
- put sb through sth
- put sb/sth through (to sb / ... )
- put sb to sth
- put sth to sb
- put sth together
- put sth towards sth
- put up sth
- put sb up
- put sth up
- put up (at ... )
- put up for sth | put yourself up for sth
- put sb up to sth
- put up with sb/sth
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English (recorded only in the verbal noun putung ), of unknown origin; compare with dialect pote to push, thrust (an early sense of the verb put ).