“puts” is a form of
put
/pʊt/ verb, noun
Forms puts putting putten puttest puttedst putteth putt
- verb To physically place (sth or sb swh). “She put her books on the table.”
- verb To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign. “The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.”
- verb To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition). “Put your house in order!”
- verb To express (something in a certain manner). “When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.”
- verb To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. “I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.”
- verb To set as a calculation or estimate. “They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.”
- verb To steer; to direct one's course; to go. “to put to sea”
- verb (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option. “He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.”
- noun The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. “the put of a ball”
- noun (uncountable) An old card game.
- noun (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- noun (obsolete) A prostitute.
Synonyms
locate programmable UJT put option set place pose position lay frame redact cast couch assign invest commit arrange set up order
Etymology
From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
From Old French pute.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A pit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. Chaucer.
- noun A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
- verb To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; --nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
Etymology [See Pit.]
Etymology [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “put”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details