put
noun
1. the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Definition categories: act, option
Sentences with put as a noun:
- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- the put of a ball
verb
1. put into a certain place or abstract location
- Put your things here
Similar word(s): lay, place, pose, position, set
Definition categories: contact, displace, move
2. cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
- That song put me in awful good humor
- put your ideas in writing
Definition categories: contact, alter, change, modify
3. formulate in a particular style or language
- I wouldn't put it that way
Similar word(s): cast, couch, frame, redact
Definition categories: communication, articulate, formulate, phrase, word
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
Similar word(s): assign
Definition categories: consumption, apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize
5. make an investment
- Put money into bonds
Similar word(s): commit, invest, place
Definition categories: possession, drop, expend, spend
6. estimate
- We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.
Definition categories: cognition, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge
7. cause (someone) to undergo something
- He put her to the torture
Definition categories: perception, subject
8. adapt
- put these words to music
Definition categories: creation, arrange, set
9. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- I put these memories with those of bygone times
Similar word(s): arrange, order
Definition categories: cognition, organise, organize
Sentences with put as a verb:
- She put her books on the table.
- Put your house in order!
- He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
- He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- to put a question; to put a case