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(verb) put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "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" |
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Synonyms: assign |
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Related Words: apply, employ, repose, use, utilise, utilize |
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(verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor." |
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Related Words: alter, change, put to sleep |
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(verb) put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising children"; also with abstract objects and locations: "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
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Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
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Related Words: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, displace, docket, ensconce, fix, garner, glycerolize, ground, instal, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, lay, lay over, lean, load, lose, marshal, middle, mislay, misplace, move, parallelize, park, perch, pillow, pitch, place down, place upright, plant, poise, pose, posit, position, put back, put down, put forward, put in, rack up, recess, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, sign, sit, sit down, situate, sough, sow, space, stand, stand up, stick, store, stow, superimpose, tee, tee up, throw |
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(verb) adapt; "put these words to music" |
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Related Words: arrange, set |
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(verb) cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture" |
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Related Words: subject |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: put option |
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Related Words: option |
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(verb) estimate: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." |
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Synonyms: place, set |
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Related Words: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) make an investment; "Put money into bonds" |
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Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
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Related Words: buy into, drop, expend, job, speculate, spend |
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(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
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Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
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Related Words: contemporize, synchronize |
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(verb) formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" |
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Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
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Related Words: articulate, formulate, phrase, word |
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