put
Definitions
- Acronym of parameterized unit test.
- ISO 639-3 language code for Putoh
- Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)
- A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- A prostitute.
- Place.
- Nautical To proceed: The ship put into the harbor.
- Bridge.
- Acronym of parameterized unit testing.
- To physically place (something or someone somewhere)
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- Fixed; stationary: stay put.
- Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign
- An old card game.
- To change or cause to change direction; go or cause to go from one tack to another.
- Initialism of person using television.
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition)
- To save for later use: "Some crops were so abundant they could even be put by" (Carole Lalli).
- To express (something in a certain manner)
- To propose for consideration: put forward a new plan.
- To head for shore.
- To construct; create: put together a new bookcase; put together a tax package.
- To impose on; overburden: He was always being put upon by his friends.
- To bring to an end; terminate.
- To establish a permanent residence in a locale.
Conjugation
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Equivalents
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Examples
“He bought a January '08 put⟳ for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet⟳.”
“c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange A put⟳ and a call⟳ may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy⟳ or sell⟳ as he chooses at the fixed price.”
“the put⟳ of a ball”
“The Stag's was a Forc'd put⟳, and a Chance rather than a Choice.”
“Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put⟳.”
“Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain⟳.”
“The old put⟳ wanted to make⟳ a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get⟳ into me.”
“The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see⟳, and calls him an old put⟳, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.”
“Any number⟳ of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!”
“And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put⟳, said Mr. Nolan.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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