1. To place in a specified location; set: She put the books on the table.

2. To cause to be in a specified condition: His gracious manners put me at ease.

3. To cause (one) to undergo something; subject: The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.

4. To assign; attribute: They put a false interpretation on events.

5. To estimate: We put the time at five o'clock.

6. To impose or levy: The governor has put a tax on cigarettes.

7. Games. To wager (a stake); bet: put $50 on a horse.

8. Sports. To hurl with an overhand pushing motion: put the shot.

9. To bring up for consideration or judgment: put a question to the judge.

10. To express; state: I put my objections bluntly.

11. To render in a specified language or literary form: put prose into verse.

12. To adapt: The lyrics had been put to music.

13. To urge or force to an action: a mob that put the thief to flight.

14. To apply: We must put our minds to it.

1. To begin to move, especially in a hurry.

2. Nautical. To proceed: The ship put into the harbor.

1. Sports. An act of putting the shot.

2. An option to sell a stipulated amount of stock or securities within a specified time and at a fixed price.

1. To state so as to be understood clearly or accepted readily: tried to put her views across during the hearing.

2. To attain or carry through by deceit or trickery.

1. To renounce; discard: put all negative thoughts away.

2. Informal. To consume (food or drink) readily and quickly: put away the dinner in just a few minutes.

3. Informal. To confine to a mental health facility.

4. a. Informal. To kill: The injured cat was put away. b. To bury.

1. a. To write down. b. To enter in a list.

2. a. To bring to an end; repress: put down a rebellion. b. To render ineffective: put down rumors.

3. To subject (an animal) to euthanasia.

4. Slang. a. To criticize: Her parents put her down for failing the course. b. To belittle; disparage: He tried to put down her knowledge of literature. c. To humiliate: "Many status games seem designed to put down others" (Alvin F. Poussaint).

5. a. To assign to a category: Just put him down as a sneak. b. To attribute: Let's put this disaster down to experience.

6. To consume (food or drink) readily; put away: puts down three big meals a day.

1. To grow: Plants put forth new growth in the spring.

2. To bring to bear; exert: At least put forth a semblance of effort when you scrub the floor.

3. To offer for consideration: put forth an idea.

1. To make a formal offer of: put in a plea of guilty.

2. To interpose: He put in a good word for me.

3. To spend (time) at a location or job: The inmate had put in six years at hard labor. She put in eight hours behind a desk.

4. To plant: We put in 20 rows of pine trees.

5. Nautical. To enter a port or harbor: The freighter puts in at noon.

1. a. To delay; postpone: put off paying the bills. b. To persuade to delay further action: managed to put off the creditors for another week.

2. To take off; discard: put off a sweater.

3. To repel or repulse, as from bad manners: His indifferent attitude has put us off.

4. To pass (money) or sell (merchandise) fraudulently.

1. To clothe oneself with; don: put on a coat; put socks on.

2. To apply; activate: put on the brakes.

3. To assume affectedly: put on an English accent.

4. Slang. To tease or mislead (another): You're putting me on!

5. To add: put on weight.

6. To produce; perform: put on a variety show.

1. To extinguish: put out a fire.

2. Nautical. To leave, as a port or harbor; depart.

3. To expel: put out a drunk.

4. To publish: put out a weekly newsletter.

5. a. To inconvenience: Did our early arrival put you out? b. To offend or irritate: I was put out by his attention to the television set.

6. Baseball. To retire a runner.

7. Vulgar Slang. To be sexually active. Used of a woman.

1. To postpone; delay.

2. To put across, especially to deceive: tried to put a lie over, but to no avail.

1. To bring to a successful end: put the project through on time; put through a number of new laws.

2. To cause to undergo: He put me through a lot of trouble.

3. a. To make a telephone connection for: The operator put me through on the office line. b. To obtain a connection for (a telephone call).

1. To erect; build.

2. To preserve; can: put up six jars of jam.

3. To nominate: put up a candidate at a convention.

4. To provide (funds) in advance: put up money for the new musical.

5. To provide lodgings for: put a friend up for the night.

6. Sports. To startle (game animals) from cover: put up grouse.

7. To offer for sale: put up his antiques.

8. a. To make a display or the appearance of: put up a bluff. b. To engage in; carry on: put up a good fight.

1. To overburden with tasks or work.

2. To put blame on.

3. To take unfair advantage of.

4. To lay out the facts of a situation to (another) in a forceful, candid manner.

1. To make final preparations for the printing of (a newspaper, for example).

2. To make final preparations for completing (a project).