put

CEFRA1

/pʊt/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To move something to a particular place or position.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).

Examples

  • Any chance you know where I put my keys?

  • She put a blanket over the sleeping child.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.

  2. To physically place (something or someone somewhere).

  3. To physically place (sth or sb swh).

More examples

In context

  • She put her books on the table.

  • The police put him in a cell.

  • They put the new motorway right through the national park.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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 Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Dan...