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[ verb ] put into a certain place or abstract location
Examples "Put your things here" "Set the tray down" "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" "Place emphasis on a certain point" Related terms move install settle arrange park lay seat insert plant misplace throw replace lean set_down sow superimpose space bury cock stand recess clap position juxtapose throw stick deposit glycerolize marshal butt poise rest ensconce set_down ground pillow misplace docket plant nestle bucket bottle emplace ship barrel imbricate middle sign intersperse postpose pile reposition superpose parallelize tee prepose shelve perch rack_up cram load trench pigeonhole bed coffin ladle upend set underlay appose step emplace siphon recline stratify repose jar raise assemble arrange postpone lay put_on communicate replace range land post drop imprison ensnare rig set_back disembark topographic_point position set space setting |
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[ verb ] put into a certain place or abstract location
Examples "Put your things here" "Set the tray down" "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" "Place emphasis on a certain point" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` That permitted us to start controlling the ball right_away '' , said Stram , quipping , `` I think I 'll put that play in the book '' . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Al_Smith 's 340 - blast over left in the fourth - his fourth homer of the campaign - tied the score and Carreon 's first major_league home_run in the fifth put the Sox back in_front . A double by Green , Allison 's run scoring 2_baser , an infield single by Lemon and Gardner 's solid single to center put the Twins back in_front in the last of the fifth . ("Editorials"...)Thus , when the Russians sent up their first sputnik , American chagrin was human enough , and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way , he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith '' . Related terms move situate install settle arrange park lay seat plant replace misplace throw lean set_down sow superimpose space cock recess stand clap position stick throw juxtapose marshal set_down ground butt pillow docket ensconce poise rest misplace glycerolize stow pitch middle sign prepose postpose parallelize reposition barrel pile tee superpose bucket bottle coffin rack_up perch load bed cram trench appose jar shelve upend set ladle pigeonhole siphon repose intersperse raise assemble assemble arrange postpone postpone lay put_on communicate replace range range land post drop imprison ensnare rig set_back disembark set_back |
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[ verb ] cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
Examples "That song put me in awful good humor." Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` They can be going_along , doing little damage , then bang , bang - they can hit a_couple_of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in_trouble '' . (The New York Times,...)With Skorich at the helm , the Eagles are expected to put more emphasis on running , rather than passing . (Chicago Daily Tribune...)It 's a wonder , really , to how much mendacious trouble Larkin puts himself to sell the Jerebohms that preposterous manse . The episode in which Sancho_Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator . |
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[ verb ] formulate in a particular style or language
Examples "I wouldn't put it that way" "She cast her request in very polite language" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)After a long , hot controversy , Miller_County has a new school_superintendent , elected , as a policeman put it , in the `` coolest election I ever saw in_this county '' . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)Religion at its best is out in_front , ever beckoning and leading_on , and , as Lippman put it , `` mobilizing all man 's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance '' . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind , and this I will do my best to supply . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)And so the authors conclude : `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more_than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ] , leave positively no room for doubt that the sense_of_touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or , to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that_is , from one end to the other - was unimpaired '' . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)Lawrence could not put his finger on_it precisely , and this worried him . |
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[ verb ] put something on or into (abstractly) assign;
Synonyms Examples "She put 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" Used in print (Mr. America, 4:6...)Only when the newest Mr._America or Mr._Universe rediscovers them and puts them into practice are we reacquainted with them and once_again see how effective they really are . |
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[ verb ] (stock exchange) make an investment
Examples "Put money into bonds" Used in print (Newark Evening News...)Harold , with brothers Frank , Joe and William , took_over at the death of their father , Harry_M._Stevens , who put a_few dollars into a baseball program , introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved_the_way for creation of a catering empire . (Jean Mercier, Whatever You Do, Don't Panic....)She patronized Greenwich_Village artists for awhile , then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible , but successful ) . |
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[ verb ] estimate
Examples : "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Laurence_M_._Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes , and Charles_C_._Carpenter 's data on Michigan garter and ribbon_snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more_than half as long as the biggest adults . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
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