put

n : the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or

commodity future) at a given price before a given date

[syn: {put option}] [ant: {call option}]

v 1: put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the

tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising

children"; also with abstract objects and locations:

"Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: {set}, {place},

{pose}, {position}, {lay}]

2: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain

relation; "That song put me in awful good humor."

3: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put

it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite

language" [syn: {frame}, {redact}, {cast}, {couch}]

4: put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "She put

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" [syn: {assign}]

5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: {invest}, {commit},

{place}] [ant: {divest}]

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

torture"

7: adapt; "put these words to music"

8: estimate: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." [syn: {place},

{set}]

9: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my

schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with

those of bygone times" [syn: {arrange}, {set up}, {order}]

punt

(From the punch line of an old joke referring to American

football: "Drop back 15 yards and punt!") 1. To give up,

typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the

movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get this

feature in, but I decided to punt" may mean that you've

decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not

ever even going to put in the feature.

2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the

{Right Thing} is and resort to an inefficient hack.

3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically

because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well

to frame an algorithmic solution. "No way to know what the

right form to dump the graph in is - we'll punt that for

now."

4. To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other

section of the design. "It's too hard to get the compiler to

do that; let's punt to the run-time system."

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