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To place something somewhere.
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, chapter=20 To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
Clothing and ornamentation.
A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
* Prescott
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
* Gibbon
A large collection.
* Byron
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(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(military) A militia.
To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
(legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
Put is a related term of array.
As an acronym put
is (software|testing).As an initialism put
is (electronics).As a noun array is
clothing and ornamentation.As a verb array is
to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.put
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
Etymology 3
(etyl) pute.Statistics
*array
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
- drawn up in battle array
- wedged together in the closest array
- their long array of sapphire and of gold
- We offer a dazzling array of choices.
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Usage notes
* (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".Derived terms
* * * * *Antonyms
* (orderly series) disarraySee also
* (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexingVerb
- He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
- (Blackstone)