Definition of puts

"puts" in the noun sense

1. put option, put

the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

"puts" in the verb sense

1. put, set, place, pose, position, lay

put into a certain place or abstract location

"Put your things here"

"Set the tray down"

"Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"

"Place emphasis on a certain point"

2. put

cause to be in a certain state cause to be in a certain relation

"That song put me in awful good humor"

"put your ideas in writing"

3. frame, redact, cast, put, couch

formulate in a particular style or language

"I wouldn't put it that way"

"She cast her request in very polite language"

4. put, assign

attribute or give

"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"

5. invest, put, commit, place

make an investment

"Put money into bonds"

6. place, put, set

estimate

"We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

7. put

cause (someone) to undergo something

"He put her to the torture"

8. put

adapt

"put these words to music"

9. arrange, set up, put, order

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

"arrange my schedule"

"set up one's life"

"I put these memories with those of bygone times"

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Quotations for puts

Insolence puts an end to friendship. [ Proverb ]

Every one puts his fault on the times. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet is true love though given in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He refuses the bribe, but puts forth his hand. [ Proverb ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He that gives to a grateful man puts out to usury. [ Proverb ]

Praise without profit puts but little into the pot. [ Proverb ]

A little incense offered puts many things to rights.

He is as guilty who holds the bag as he who puts in. [ French Proverb ]

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace,
He will be in the furnace with them. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Honesty and plain dealing puts knavery out of the bias. [ Proverb ]

As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace.
He will be in the furnace with them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

A woman that paints, puts up a bill that she is to be let. [ Proverb ]

He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it. [ French Proverb ]

Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. [ Proverb ]

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person. [ Proverb ]

It is pride in fashion, that puts humility out of countenance. [ Proverb ]

Being educated puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders, [ Bovee ]

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The epicure puts his purse into his belly; and the miser his belly into his purse. [ Proverb ]

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. [ Mme. de Stael ]

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. [ Ruskin ]

Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]

What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. [ Bruyere ]

The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. [ Emerson ]

Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, tomorrow puts it on another's back. [ Fielding ]

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit. [ Addison ]

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease. [ Washington Irving ]

Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way. [ Balzac ]

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. [ Sterne ]

When a man puts on a character he is a stranger to, there is as much difference between what he appears and what he is in reality as there is between a visor and a face. [ Bruyere ]

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. [ Ben Jonson ]

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]

puts in Scrabble®

The word puts is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters puts:

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puts in Words With Friends™

The word puts is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters puts:

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Words containing the sequence puts

Words that start with puts (6 words)

Words with puts in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving puts

Shorter words in puts

put

Longer words containing puts

cajeputs

inputs reinputs

outputs reoutputs

putsch putsches

putsch putschism

putsch putschist putschists

shotputs

throughputs

thruputs