put  /pʊt/
1. the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
synset: put_option, put
1. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
synset: put, set, place, pose, position, lay
2. cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"
synset: put
3. formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
synset: frame, redact, cast, put, couch
4. attribute or give; "She put too 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"
5. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
synset: invest, put, commit, place
6. estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."
7. cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"
synset: put
8. adapt; "put these words to music"
synset: put
9. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
synset: arrange, set_up, put, order
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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