put

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   adapt

   put these words to music

2. 2
   verb

   cause someone to undergo something

   The king put the peasant to death for stealing.

3. 3
   verb

   estimate

   We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.

4. 4
   verb

   formulate in a particular style or language

   I wouldn't put it that way

5. 5
   verb

   attribute or give

   I think that I put too much emphasis on my last statement, it is no more important than the first.

6. 6
   verb

   To physically place (something or someone somewhere).

   She put her books on the table.

7. 7
   verb

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

   The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.

8. 8
   verb

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

   Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,

Etymology

From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put ou…