put
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Is put a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of put?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.Examples: "He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80."
2. (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)Examples: "He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark."especially
3. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.Examples: "No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends."obsolete
4. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.Examples: "These wretches put us upon all mischief."; "Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge"; "Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence."obsolete
5. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
noun (English)
1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.countableuncountable
2. (finance) Short for put option.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."abbreviationalt-ofcountableuncountable
3. (uncountable) An old card game.Examples: "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."uncountable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.Examples: "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."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A prostitute.Examples: "And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit test.abbreviationacronymalt-ofcountableuncountable
2. (software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit testing.abbreviationacronymalt-ofcountableuncountable
3. (electronics) Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
4. (broadcasting) Initialism of person using television.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary