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Phonetic: "/pʊt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A right to sell something at a predetermined price.

Definition: A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

Example: He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.

Definition: The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

Example: the put of a ball

Definition: An old card game.

Phonetic: "/pʊt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To place something somewhere.

Example: She put her books on the table.

Definition: To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

Example: He is putting all his energy into this one task.

Definition: To exercise a put option.

Example: He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

Definition: To express something in a certain manner.

Example: When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

Definition: To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)

Definition: To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Definition: To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Definition: To attach or attribute; to assign.

Example: to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

Definition: To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

Definition: To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

Example: to put a question; to put a case

Definition: To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

Definition: To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/kɑːt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

Example: The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

Definition: A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

Definition: A shopping cart.

Phonetic: "/kɑːt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To carry goods.

Example: I've been carting these things around all day.

Definition: To carry or convey in a cart.

Definition: To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

Definition: To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Phonetic: "/bɪˈfɔː/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: At an earlier time.

Example: I've never done this before.

Definition: In advance.

Definition: At the front end.

Phonetic: "/bɪˈfɔː/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Earlier than (in time).

Example: I want this done before Monday.

Definition: In front of in space.

Example: He stood before me.

Definition: In the presence of.

Example: He performed before the troops in North Africa.

Definition: Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).

Example: The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.

Definition: In store for, in the future of (someone).

Definition: In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.

Example: In alphabetical order, "cat" comes before "dog", "canine" before feline".

Definition: At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.

Example: An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.

Phonetic: "/bɪˈfɔː/"

Part Of Speech: conjunction

Definition: In advance of the time when.

Definition: Rather or sooner than.

Example: I'll die before I'll tell you anything about it.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/hɔːs/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Definition: Equipment with legs.

Definition: Type of equipment.

Definition: A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Definition: The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Definition: An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

Definition: (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Definition: (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery