Definition of "put" [put]

• To place in a specified location; set: She put the books on the table. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be in a specified condition: His gracious manners put me at ease. (verb-transitive)
• To cause (one) to undergo something; subject: The interrogators put the prisoner to torture. (verb-transitive)
• To assign; attribute: They put a false interpretation on events. (verb-transitive)
• To estimate: We put the time at five o'clock. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A royalist divine also, during the Protectorate, did not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which he was accustomed to deliver: -- "O Lord, who hast put a sword into the hand of thy servant, Oliver, _put it into his heart_ ALSO -- to do according to thy word.""
• "When for any reason it is necessary to put a small or weakly rooted plant or cutting, or a cutting that is just on the point of sending forth roots, in a pot that seems too large, _put it near the edge of the pot_, instead of in the middle."
• "—Now, mamma, ” he went on, as he turned to Mme. Vauquer and put his arm round her waist, “put on your bonnet, your best flowered silk, and the countess’s scarf, while I go out to call a cab—all my own self."