Put can refer to:
- Put option, a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the seller of the option
- The Biblical Put, the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah. See the article Phut
- A type of HTTP request used for uploading files to a specified URI on a web-server
- The FTP option that copies a file from the local system to the remote system (as compared to "get")
- Put (band), from Rijeka, Croatia
- Put, a 16th century card game
- The command: put "..." in Turing (programming language)
PUT may also be an acronym referring to:
- Parametrized Unit Testing
- A Programmable Unijunction Transistor
- Products Under Test, products being considered for DivX certification
- Petroleum University of Technology, a university in Abadan, Ahvaz, Mahmud Abad and Tehran, Iran
- Poznań University of Technology, a university located in Poznań, Poland
Famous quotes containing the word put:
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men’s necessities, while elsewhere she was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim’s shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There’s no way of sustaining our children if we don’t first rescue ourselves. I don’t call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)