straddle, span - the act of sitting or standing astride

option - the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited

put in, stick in, inclose, insert, introduce, enclose - introduce; "Insert your ticket here"

docket - place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried"

cock - set the trigger of a firearm back for firing

postpose - place after another constituent in the sentence; "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them"

prepose - place before another constituent in the sentence; "English proposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them"

step - place (a ship's mast) in its step

put back, replace - put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"

stratify - form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"

plant - place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"

intersperse - place at intervals in or among; "intersperse exclamation marks ina the text"

snuggle, nestle - position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow"

pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

superimpose, superpose, lay over - place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?"

superpose - place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide

park - place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker"

ensconce, settle - fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"

emplace - put into place or position; "the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar"

emplace - provide a new emplacement for guns

ship - place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"

underlay - put (something) under or beneath; "They underlaid athe shingles with roofing paper"

trench - set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"

pigeonhole - place into a small compartment

shelve - place on a shelve; "shelve books"

jar - place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

repose - to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King"

stick, put forward - cause to protrude or as if to protrude; "stick one's hand out of the window"; "stick one's nose into other people's business"

sign - place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed"

middle - put in the middle

parallelize - place parallel to one another

butt - place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"

recess - put into a recess; "recess lights"

reposition - place into another position

throw, thrust - place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"

tee, tee up - place on a tee; "tee golf balls"

rack up - place in a rack; "rack pool balls"

coffin - place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

bed - put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"

appose - place side by side or in close proximity

place down, put down, set down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"

sough, sow, seed - place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds"

misplace - place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers"

juxtapose - place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"

set down - put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley"

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

put to sleep - help someone go to bed; "Mother put the baby to sleep"

put to sleep, put away - kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"

demean, disgrace, degrade, take down, put down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

dishearten, put off - take away the enthusiasm of

disconcert, flurry, confuse, put off - cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"

anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under, put to sleep, put out - make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"

put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"

douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"

follow out, follow up, put through, carry out, follow through, implement, go through - pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; "Did he go through with the treatment?"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

put through - connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio"

anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under, put to sleep, put out - make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"

put to sleep, put away - kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"

anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under, put to sleep, put out - make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"

can, tin, put up - preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"

give voice, phrase, word, articulate, formulate - put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"

apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize - put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't make use of this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

repose - put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people"

fund - invest money in government securities

expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"

roll over - reinvest into a similar fund or security; "She rolled over her IRA"

shelter - invest (money) so that it is not taxable

tie up - invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes; "All my money is tied up in long-term investments"

job, speculate - invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"

buy into - buy stocks or shares of a company

estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge - judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

subject - cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

arrange, set - adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music"

contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"

organize, organise - cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea