put
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Động từ
verb- 1.
To physically place (sth or sb swh).
She put her books on the table.
The police put him in a cell.
They put the new motorway right through the national park.
Đồng nghĩa: locate
- 2.
To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
I put £100 on the winning horse.
Don't put the blame on me.
What answer did you put for question 3?
to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
That seems like a bad idea put against the restrictions we're working under.
- 3.
To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
Put your house in order!
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
The doctor's put me on a strict diet.
Put the following sentences into the past tense.
put to bed; put to shame; put to death; put into practice; put one's mind to it
- 4.
To express (something in a certain manner).
When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
To put it simply, we can't afford it.
- 5.
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
to put a question; to put a case
1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
- 6.
To set as a calculation or estimate.
They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
- 7.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
to put to sea
- 8.
(finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- 9.
(especially)(especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
- 10.
To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
- 11.
(obsolete)To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- 12.
(obsolete)To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)(business, finance) Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)
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.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
the put of a ball
- 3.
(uncountable)An old card game.
- 4.
(obsolete)A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- 5.
(obsolete)A prostitute.
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From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (pushing, impulse, instigation, urging)) and potian (to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad), both from *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (to stick, stab), which is of origin.