put

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move something into a particular place or position.

   She put her books on the table.

2. 2
   verb

   To bring someone or something into a particular state or condition.

   The new law put many small shops out of business.

3. 3
   verb

   To express something in a particular way or with particular words.

   I wouldn't put it quite like that.

4. 4
   verb

   To estimate or guess an amount, time, or value.

   We put the time of arrival at around 8 p.m.

Common collocations

• put on Verb + preposition/particle
• put on a show Verb + noun
• put back Verb + preposition/particle
• put into Verb + preposition/particle
• put a figure on Verb + noun
• put differently Verb + adverb
• put across Verb + adverb
• put aside Verb + adverb
• put off Verb + adverb
• put over Verb + adverb
• put under Verb + adverb

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…

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