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What is the verb for put?

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put
  1. To place something somewhere.
  2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
  3. (finance) To exercise a put option.
  4. To express something in a certain manner.
  5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
  6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
  8. To attach or attribute; to assign.
  9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
  11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
  13. Synonyms:
      14. lay, place, position, set, deposit, situate, stick, leave, park, plant, settle, fix, lean, dump, prop, rest, bung, establish, plonk, stow, emplace, plunk, pose, depose, dispose, drape, plop, posit, embed, instal, install, pop, seat, bring, concentrate, consign to, lay down, plank, put down, repose, set down, leave out, plank down, plunk down, set up, station, locate, stand, lodge, sit … more
  14. Examples:
      15. “I would always put my keys on the dresser out of habit.”
      “Alexia was prepared to put a proposal before the committee to significantly raise the marginal tax rate.”
      “The government has decided to put a tax on sugary drinks in an effort to curb obesity.”
putt
  1. To make a putt sound.
  2. (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
  3. To move along slowly.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. drive, hit, knock, push, stroke, tap
  5. Examples:
      6. “He managed to putt the ball into the hole with a skillful stroke.”
putter
  1. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idle, dawdle, loiter, fritter, mooch, fanny about, dilly-dally, lounge about, do nothing much, goof around, beat the meat, spin one's wheels, horse around, fart around, bum around, loaf about, dillydally, languish, bob off, skive, laze around, chill, hang out, kick back, molder, slouch around, goof off, while, sit around, sit back, bludge, kill time, slack, loll about, hang about, slummock, fritter away, lounge, be inactive, mooch around, puddle around, moulder, fool around, bat back and forth, go to seed, drone, lay on one's oars, loll around, slouch about, bat about … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I stay at home and putter lazily. This is the life of anybody free of burdensome, depressing aspirations.”
      “Jerry had told Zack to putter over to the dock as quietly as possible and just tie up and wait.”
      “The Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.”
putter
  1. (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idle, dawdle, loiter, fritter, mooch, fanny about, dilly-dally, lounge about, do nothing much, goof around, beat the meat, spin one's wheels, horse around, fart around, bum around, loaf about, dillydally, languish, bob off, skive, laze around, chill, hang out, kick back, molder, slouch around, goof off, while, sit around, sit back, bludge, kill time, slack, loll about, hang about, slummock, fritter away, lounge, be inactive, mooch around, puddle around, moulder, fool around, bat back and forth, go to seed, drone, lay on one's oars, loll around, slouch about, bat about … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I stay at home and putter lazily. This is the life of anybody free of burdensome, depressing aspirations.”
      “Jerry had told Zack to putter over to the dock as quietly as possible and just tie up and wait.”
      “The Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.”
putt
  1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drive, hit, knock, push, stroke, tap
  3. Examples:
      4. “He managed to putt the ball into the hole with a skillful stroke.”
puttering
  1. present participle of putter
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idling, dawdling, loitering, frittering, mooching, fannying about, dilly-dallying, lounging about, doing nothing much, goofing around, beating the meat, farting around, spinning one's wheels, horsing around, bumming around, puddling around, resting on your oars, vegging out, marking time, loafing around, goofing off, doing nothing, languishing, lolling, droning, mooching around, stagnating, batting around, kicking back, dallying, slacking, fooling around, pottering, loafing about, sitting back and do nothing, puddling, going to seed, vegetating, chillin, slummocking, bumming, kicking around, lolling about, wasting time, hanging around, skiving, hanging out, killing time, batting about, lazing … more
putting
  1. (golf) present participle of putt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. boring, drilling, burrowing, tunneling, tunnelling, cutting, digging, mining, digging out, excavating, piercing, punching, driving, gouging, perforating, puncturing, sinking, gouging out, reaming, riddling, hollowing out, penetrating, scooping out, drilling hole … more
putting
  1. present participle of put
  2. Synonyms:
      3. boring, drilling, burrowing, tunneling, tunnelling, cutting, digging, mining, digging out, excavating, piercing, punching, driving, gouging, perforating, puncturing, sinking, gouging out, reaming, riddling, hollowing out, penetrating, scooping out, drilling hole … more
putt
  1. Obsolete form of put.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drive, hit, knock, push, stroke, tap
  3. Examples:
      4. “He managed to putt the ball into the hole with a skillful stroke.”
puttest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of put
  2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of put
  3. Examples:
      4. “Puttest thou the reverend man to use ungracious language to free himself from the importunities of a Jewess?”
putters
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of putter
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idles, dawdles, loiters, fritters, mooches, fannies about, dilly-dallies, lounges about, does nothing much, goof around, beats the meat, horses around, farts around, spins one's wheels, bums around, ambles, moseys, strolls, potters, rambles, saunters, meanders, shuffles, traipses, walks, sashays, toddles, wanders, walks casually, tootles, bimbles, maunders, drifts, pootles, swans, goes slowly, roams, hikes, tramps, perambulates, peregrinates, stravaigs, promenades, tromps, floats, coasts, strays … more
putts
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of putt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drives, hits, knocks, pushes, strokes, taps
puts
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of put
  2. Synonyms:
      3. says, expresses, articulates, communicates, conveys, discloses, divulges, relates, acknowledges, enunciates, imparts, outlines, reveals, airs, clarifies, confesses, explains, tells, verbalizes, admits, details, discusses, exhibits, lets on, makes known, passes on, phrases, publicises, puts across, puts forward, puts into words, relays, speaks about, spells out, suggests, summarises, talks about, verbalises, gets across, implies, renders, addresses, describes, frames, summarizes, purports, translates, advertises, brings out, gets off … more
putteth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of put
puttered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of putter
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idled, dawdled, loitered, frittered, mooched, fannied about, dilly-dallied, lounged about, did nothing much, done nothing much, goofed around, beat the meat, bummed around, farted around, horsed around, spun one's wheels, beaten the meat, ambled, moseyed, strolled, pottered, rambled, sauntered, meandered, shuffled, traipsed, walked, sashayed, toddled, wandered, walked casually, tootled, bimbled, maundered, drifted, pootled, swanned, roamed, hiked, tramped, perambulated, peregrinated, stravaiged, promenaded, tromped, floated, coasted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We chatted as the train puttered up into some of the most impressive mountains I'd ever seen.”
      “Jun summed it up after we puttered around a while together and then came home.”
      “All was well, and we puttered down the street, at a snails pace due to all the traffic.”
putted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of putt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drove, drave, driven, druv, hit, hat, hitten, knocked, pushed, stroked, tapped … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “When I putted for par, I heard the echo of the ball bouncing off the sides of the cup.”
      “It was said that he used to cover his eyes when he putted but still he won his share of tournaments.”
      “But I putted well, I drove the ball well, I did just about everything well.”
puttedst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of put
putten
  1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire dialect) past participle of put
  2. Synonyms:
      3. laid, placed, positioned, set, deposited, situated, sticked, stuck, left, parked, planted, settled, fixt, fixed, leaned, leant, dumped, propped, rested, bunged, established, plonked, stowed, emplaced, plunked, posed, deposed, disposed, draped, plopped, posited, embedded, installed, popped, seated, brought, concentrated, consigned to, laid down, planked, put down, reposed, set down, left out, planked down, plunked down, set up, presented, advanced, offered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Their Dutch nickname, putterje, comes from the verb putten, meaning to draw water from a well.”
      “We've putten in place a system with three tariff plans.”
      “According to Van Putten early weaned calves will suck anything that resembles a teat.”
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