different between put vs fix

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *p?tian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *put?n? (“to stick, stab”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). Compare also related Old English p?tan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit ????? (bundá, “arrow”).

Alternative forms

• putt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?ot, IPA^(key): /p?t/, [p???t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)

1. To place something somewhere.
2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option.

4. To express something in a certain manner.
   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

     All this is ingeniously and ably put.

5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

   • His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.

9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

   • No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
    • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book

      Put the perceptions and you put the mind.

    • Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.

11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.
12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• putten

Noun

put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
   • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange

     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.

3. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
4. (uncountable) An old card game.

Translations

See also

• Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• call
• option

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Homophone: putt

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
   • 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":

     Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,

     And of lost hospitality complain.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 244:

     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.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

   • 1870, Frederic Harrison, "The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair," Fortnightly Review:

     Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

Etymology 3

Old French pute.

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

References

Anagrams

• PTU, TPU, UTP, tup

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put (plural putte)

1. well; pit

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?put/
• Rhymes: -ut

Verb

put

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pudir
2. second-person singular imperative form of pudir

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• IPA^(key): /?p?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

1. pit, well
2. drain

Derived terms

• afvoerput
• beerput
• opvangput
• putjesschepper
• putlucht
• regenput
• waterput

Descendants

• Afrikaans: put
• ? Sranan Tongo: peti

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

put

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
2. imperative of putten

Finnish

Interjection

put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

Verb

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Kalasha

Noun

put

1. Alternative spelling of putr

Latvian

Verb

put

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of put?t
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of put?t
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of put?t
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of put?t

Romanian

Verb

put

1. first-person singular present indicative of pu?i
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of pu?i
3. third-person plural present indicative of pu?i

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?u?t?/

Verb

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

1. push, shove
2. jostle
3. press

Derived terms

• put ann

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)

Mutation

Etymology 3

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *p?to (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit ??????? (budbuda, “bubble”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
2. corpulent person; any bulging thing
3. shovelful, sod, spadeful
4. (medicine) bruised swelling

Mutation

References

• “put” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 284

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pû?t/

Noun

p?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. road

2. way

3. path

4. trip, journey

5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *pl?t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pût/

Noun

p?t f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. complexion, skin hue, tan

2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities

Declension

Etymology 3

From p?t (“road, path, way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pû?t/

Preposition

p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????) (+ genitive case)

1. to, toward

Etymology 4

From p?t (“road, path, way”).

Alternative forms

• (genitive plural) pút?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pû?t/

Adverb

p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English foot.

Noun

put

1. foot

English

Etymology

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin f?xus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from f?gere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Verb

fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
   1. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
2. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
   1. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.

4. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
5. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion

6. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

7. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
8. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

9. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
11. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

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12. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
    • 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:

      Accu?ing ?ome malignant Star,
      Not Britain, for that fateful War,
      Your kindne?s bani?hes your fear,
      Re?olv’d to fix for ever here.

    • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

      A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
      Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
      Flew there on restless wing,
      Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix.

13. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

    • quicksilver will 'fix, so asto endure the hammer

Alternative forms

• fixe (archaic)

Synonyms

• (pierce): impale, run through, stick
• (hold in place): join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
• (mend; repair): patch, put to rights, rectify; see also Thesaurus:repair
• (make a contest unfair): doctor, rig
• (render infertile): neuter, spay, desex, castrate
• (settle or remain permanently): establish, settle down

Antonyms

• (to hold in place): move, change

Derived terms

• affix, affixative, fixed
• fixings, fixity, fixety
• fix someone's wagon, fix someone up with

Descendants

• ? Dutch: fixen, fiksen

Translations

Noun

fix (plural fixes)

1. A repair or corrective action.

   Hyponyms: bugfix, technofix

2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation

3. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
4. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
5. A determination of location.

6. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Descendants

• ? French: fixe, fix

Translations

References

Further reading

• fix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *w?j? (“fire”). Cognate with Thai ?? (fai), Northern Thai ?? (fai), Lao ?? (fai), Lü ?? (fay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ??? (pháy) or ??? (fáy), Tai Nüa ??? (fäy), Zhuang feiz, Saek ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi??/

Noun

fix

1. fire

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fixus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fiks/
• Rhymes: -iks

Adjective

fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)

1. fixed, not changing
2. stationary

Derived terms

• fixar
• telefonia fixa

Further reading

• “fix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?ks]
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

fix m

1. felt-tip pen, marker

Synonyms

• popisova?

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

fix

1. first-person singular present indicative of fixen
2. imperative of fixen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiks/
• Homophone: fixe

Noun

fix m (plural fix)

1. Alternative spelling of fixe

German

Etymology

Latin f?xus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?ks]
• Homophone: Ficks

Adjective

fix (comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)

1. fixed (costs, salary)

   Synonym: fest

2. quick

   Synonym: schnell

3. smart

   Synonym: aufgeweckt

Declension

Descendants

• ? Hungarian: fix

See also

• fix und fertig

Hungarian

Etymology

From German fix, from French fixe, from Latin figere, fixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fiks]
• Rhymes: -iks

Adjective

fix (not comparable)

1. fixed, steady

   Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott

2. immovable

   Synonym: szilárd

3. sure, certain

   Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos

Declension

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• fixpont

(Expressions):

• fix objektív

Noun

fix

1. a steady salary

Declension

References

Old French

Alternative forms

• fils, fis, fiz

Noun

fix m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Romanian

Etymology

From French fixe, from Latin fixus.

Adjective

fix m or n (feminine singular fix?, masculine plural fic?i, feminine and neuter plural fixe)

1. fixed

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

• Homophone: ficks

Adjective

fix

1. fixed, inflexible, rigid

   en fix idé

   a fixed idea

Declension

Related terms

• fixstjärna

Noun

fix c

1. a fix, a dose of an addictive drug

Declension