puts

We have found lemma(root) word of puts : put.

Definitions


[pʊt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move to or place in a particular position
(e.g: I put my hand out towards her)

- bring into a particular state or condition
(e.g: they tried to put me at ease)

- throw (a shot or weight) as an athletic sport
(e.g: she set a women's record by putting the shot 56' 7")

- (of a river) flow in a particular direction


Phrases:
- not know where to put oneself
- put it about
- put it there
- put one over on
- put one's hands together
- put one's hands up
- put oneself out there
- put someone's eyes out
- put something behind one
- put the clocks back
- put the clocks forward
- put up or shut up

Origin:
Old English (recorded only in the verbal noun putung), of unknown origin; compare with dialect pote ‘to push, thrust’ (an early sense of the verb put)


[pʊt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a throw of a shot or weight



Phrases:
- not know where to put oneself
- put it about
- put it there
- put one over on
- put one's hands together
- put one's hands up
- put oneself out there
- put someone's eyes out
- put something behind one
- put the clocks back
- put the clocks forward
- put up or shut up

Origin:
Old English (recorded only in the verbal noun putung), of unknown origin; compare with dialect pote ‘to push, thrust’ (an early sense of the verb put)




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