Synonyms: put, put option
Definition: the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Similar words: option
Definition: the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
Definition: estimate
Usage: We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.
Similar words: judge, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess
Definition: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
Usage: I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Synonyms: put, arrange, order, set up
Definition: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
Usage: arrange my schedule; set up one's life; I put these memories with those of bygone times
Similar words: organise, organize
Definition: cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
Synonyms: frame, couch, put, redact, cast
Definition: formulate in a particular style or language
Usage: I wouldn't put it that way; She cast her request in very polite language
Similar words: phrase, word, give voice, articulate, formulate
Definition: put into words or an expression
Usage: He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees
Definition: attribute or give
Usage: 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
Similar words: use, utilise, utilize, employ, apply
Definition: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
Usage: use your head!; we only use Spanish at home; I can't use this tool; Apply a magnetic field here; This thinking was applied to many projects; How do you utilize this tool?; I apply this rule to get good results; use the plastic bags to store the food; He doesn't know how to use a computer
Synonyms: put
Definition: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
Usage: That song put me in awful good humor; put your ideas in writing
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: put, place, pose, position, set, lay
Definition: put into a certain place or abstract location
Usage: Put your things here; Set the tray down; Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children; Place emphasis on a certain point
Definition: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
Usage: Move those boxes into the corner, please; I'm moving my money to another bank; The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant
Synonyms: put
Definition: adapt
Usage: put these words to music
Definition: adapt for performance in a different way
Usage: set this poem to music
Synonyms: put
Definition: cause (someone) to undergo something
Usage: He put her to the torture
Similar words: subject
Definition: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
Usage: He subjected me to his awful poetry; The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills; People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation
Synonyms: commit, invest, put, place
Definition: make an investment
Usage: Put money into bonds