usage: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
2. put, change, alter, modify
usage: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"
3. frame, redact, cast, put, couch, give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate
usage: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
usage: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
5. invest, put, commit, place, spend, expend, drop