英语词汇“put off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Used to signify a knockout competitive event, esp one held to decide a draw, as in jump-off, play-off, swim-off

A remote chance (on the offchance or on the off-chance (with that or of) just in case, in the hope of (something happening))

A person living in a place, esp a rural area, in which he or she was not born, an incomer

A small piece cut off or left over from a larger piece of some material (eg wood)

Grinding in which the tool, eg a grinding wheel, is held in the hand and worked freely

The part of a training course that a trainee follows away from the workplace at a college, etc, eg one day a week

(of a prescription drug) used to treat a condition for which the Food and Drug Administration has not approved it (also adverb)

Of or relating to skiing on new snow-surfaces, not on established tracks or runs

Relating to a home, etc bought before (completion of) building on the basis of plans seen, or to the buyer of such a property

The practice of driving over rough terrain in specially designed vehicles, esp as a sport

A method of printing lithographs, etc, by first taking an impression from a plate on a rubber cylinder and then transferring the impression to paper or metal, etc, using oil-based ink

(of a business enterprise) to transfer (work, jobs, etc) to another country, usu one where workers can be paid a lower wage

off one's oats, feed, head, rocker or trolley see under oat, feed¹, head, rock² and trolley¹

put off, show off or take off see under put¹, show and take

tell off see under tell¹

walk off and walk off with see under walk¹

well-off

Rich, well-provided
Fortunate

put¹ /pŭt/

transitive verb (putting /pŭtˈing/; put)

To place, or cause to be, in such and such a position, state, predicament, relation, etc
To set
To place, lay or deposit
To apply
To append or affix
To connect
To add
To commit
To assign
To start (someone on eg a diet, a study or a track)
To push or thrust
(also putt) to cast, throw or hurl (esp by a thrusting movement of the hand from the shoulder)
To drive
To impel
To convey or transport
To force or constrain
To incite
To subject
To reduce
To convert
To render
To express
To assert
To propound
To submit to a vote
To impose
To impute
To call on, oblige, stake, venture or invest
To repose (eg trust, confidence)

intransitive verb

To thrust (archaic or Scot and N Eng)
To proceed, make one's way (nautical)
To set out, esp hurriedly
To flow (US)

noun

A push or thrust
(also putt) a throw, esp of a heavy object from the shoulder
On the Stock Exchange, an option of selling within a certain time certain securities or commodities, at a stipulated price (also put option)

ORIGIN: Late OE putian (found in the verbal noun putung instigation); there were also potian and pȳtan, which may account for some of the dialect forms; cf Dan putte, Swed putta

putter /pŭtˈər/ noun

Someone who puts
Someone who pushes or hauls trams in a coalmine (historical)

puttˈing noun

Putting the shot (qv below)

putˈ-and-take noun

A gambling game played with a top on which are marked instructions to give to or take from a bank or pool of objects

putˈ-down noun

A snub
An action intended to assert one's superiority

putˈ-in noun (rugby)

The act of throwing the ball into a set scrum

putˈ-off noun

An excuse or evasion
A postponement

putˈ-on noun

A hoax

put option see put (n) above.

puttˈer-on noun (Shakespeare)

An instigator

puttˈer-out noun (obsolete)

Someone who deposited money on going abroad, on condition of receiving a larger sum on his return, if he ever returned

putˈ-through noun

A transaction in which a broker arranges the buying and the selling of shares

puttˈing-stone noun

A heavy stone used in putting the shot

put-upˈ adjective

Arranged beforehand in a false but deceptively plausible way

put about

To publish or circulate
To change the course of (esp a ship) or to change course
To distress (Scot)

put across

To carry out successfully, bring off
To perform so as to carry the audience with one

put an end (or a stop) to

To cause to discontinue

put away

To renounce
To divorce
To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
To stow away, pack up or set aside
To put into the proper or desirable place
To imprison
To admit to a mental hospital (informal)
To eat or drink (informal)

put back

To push backward
To delay
To repulse
To turn and sail back for port (nautical)
To reduce one's finances (informal)

put by

To set aside
To parry
To store up

put case see under case²

put down

To crush or quell
To kill (esp an old or ill animal)
To snub or humiliate
To degrade
To snub, silence or confute (Shakespeare)
To enter, write down on paper
To reckon
To attribute
To give up (rare)
To surpass or outshine
To preserve, put in pickle (dialect)
Of an aeroplane, to land (often with at)
To pay (a deposit)
To put (a baby) to bed (informal)
To drop (a catch) (cricket)

put for

To make an attempt to gain

put forth

To extend
To propose
To publish
To exert
To display
To lend at interest
To set out from port
To produce or extrude

put forward

To propose
To advance

put in

To introduce
To insert
To lodge, deposit or hand in
To make a claim or application (for)
To enter
To enter a harbour
To interpose
To perform towards completing a total
To spend, pass or fill up (time) with some occupation
To appoint

put in an appearance see under appear

put in mind

To remind

put it across someone

To defeat someone by ingenuity

put it on

To pretend (to be ill, etc)

put it past someone

(usu with not) to judge it inconsistent with someone's character

put off

To lay aside
To lay aside the character of
To palm off
To turn (someone) aside from what he or she wants or intends with evasions, excuses or unsatisfying substitutes
To divert, turn aside from a purpose
To postpone
To idle away, spend in vain
To disconcert
To cause aversion or disinclination in
To push from shore
To take off (archaic)
To dismiss (archaic)

put on

To clothe oneself or someone else with
To assume (a character or quality), esp deceptively
To mislead or deceive
To superimpose
To impose
To affix, attach, apply
To add (eg weight, charges, etc)
To stake or wager
To move forward
To move faster (obsolete)
To set to work
To set in operation
To incite
To turn on the supply of
To score
To stage
See also well put on below

put on to

To make aware of
To connect with by telephone

put out

To expel
To dismiss from a game and innings
To send out
To stretch out
To extinguish
To place (money) at interest
To expand
To publish
To disconcert
To inconvenience
To offend
To dislocate
To exert
To produce
To place with others or at a distance
To go out to sea, leave port
To remove bodily or blind (an eye)
To render unconscious (slang)
(of a woman) to be willing to grant sexual favours (slang, orig N American)

put over

To refer (Shakespeare)
To carry through successfully
To impress an audience, spectators, the public, favourably with
To impose, pass off

put paid to see under paid

put the make on see under make¹

put through

To bring to an end
To accomplish
To put in telephonic communication
To cause to undergo or suffer
To process (computing)

putting the shot, stone or weight

The act or sport of hurling a heavy stone or weight from the hand by a sudden thrust from the shoulder (see also putt¹)

put to

To apply
To add to
To connect with
To harness
To shut
To set to

put to death see under death

put to it

To press hard
To distress

put to rights see under right¹

put to sea

To begin a voyage

put to the sword see under sword

put two and two together

To draw a conclusion from various facts

put up

To accommodate with lodging
To take lodgings
To nominate or stand for election
To offer for sale
To present (eg a good game, a fight, or a defence, a prayer)
To stake
To parcel up
To supply and pack (an order, a picnic, etc)
To stow away, put aside
To sheathe
To settle beforehand
To compound
To endure tamely (obsolete)
To start (a hare) from cover

put-up job

A dishonest scheme prearranged usu by several people

put upon

To take undue advantage of
To impose on

put up to

To incite to
To make conversant with, to supply with useful information or tips about

put up with

To endure

stay put

To remain passively in the position assigned

well put on or (Scot) well putten on

Respectably dressed

off /of/

put1 /pŭt/

put¹ /pŭt/