Meaning of PUT in English
( v. t. )
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012