Meaning & Definition of Put in English

1. The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

1. Put into a certain place or abstract location

• "Put your things here"

• "Set the tray down"

• "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"

• "Place emphasis on a certain point"

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"

3. Formulate in a particular style or language

• "I wouldn't put it that way"

• "She cast her request in very polite language"

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"

5. Make an investment

• "Put money into bonds"

6. Estimate

• "We put the time of arrival at 8 p.m."

7. Cause (someone) to undergo something

• "He put her to the torture"

8. Adapt

• "Put these words to music"

9. Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

• "Arrange my schedule"

• "Set up one's life"

• "I put these memories with those of bygone times"