Definition of Put

Put

A pit.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

of Put

To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

A certain game at cards.

A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

A prostitute.

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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain