different between put vs lend

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /l?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English l?nan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijan? (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihn? (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave, leave over”).

Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linqu? (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave, release”). See also loan.

Verb

lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

   • Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.

   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney

     Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.

5. (proscribed) To borrow.

Antonyms

• borrow

Derived terms

• have a lend
• lender
• lend to believe

Translations

See also

• give back
• loan
• pay back

Etymology 2

From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landij?, *land?? (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ??????? (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).

Alternative forms

• leynd, leind, lind (Scotland)
• lende (obsolete)

Noun

lend (plural lends or linder)

1. (anatomy, Britain dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
2. (Britain dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

References

• lend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lenta, from Proto-Indo-European *lent (“linse”). Compare Latin lens, lentis, Old High German linsi.

Noun

lend f

1. acorn

Related terms

• lëndë

Estonian

Noun

lend (genitive lennu, partitive lendu)

1. flight

Declension

Derived terms

• lennujaam (“airport”)
• lennuõnnetus (“aviation accident”)