put

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

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"

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"

formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"

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"

make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

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

cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture"

adapt; "put these words to music"

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"