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put — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hole noun A hollow space or opening in something solid, or a gap that goes all the way through.
  • pit noun A hole or hollow in the ground.
  • well adv In a good, skillful, or satisfactory way.

Senses

put is used for these senses in English:

  • hole A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
  • hole (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
  • hole (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
  • pit Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
  • well A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

hole — full definition

  1. noun A hollow space or opening in something solid, or a gap that goes all the way through.
  2. noun A flaw, weakness, or gap in an argument, plan, or system.
  3. noun In golf, one of the numbered targets a player aims the ball into, or a full round segment of the course leading to it.

pit — full definition

  1. noun A hole or hollow in the ground.
  2. noun The hard stone found inside certain fruits, such as peaches or cherries.
  3. verb To set two things or people in direct competition or opposition.
  4. verb To remove the stone from a fruit.

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