Assert and Put

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date.
  • synonyms: put option

verb

• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: set, place, pose, position, lay
• Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation.
  • usage: "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"
• Formulate in a particular style or language.
  • usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
  • synonyms: frame, redact, cast, couch
• Attribute or give.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: assign
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, commit, place
• Estimate.
  • usage: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P. M."
  • synonyms: place, set
• Cause (someone) to undergo something.
  • usage: "He put her to the torture"
• Adapt.
  • usage: "put these words to music"
• Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
  • usage: "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
  • synonyms: arrange, set up, order

• 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
• (v.t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• (n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
• (v.t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
• (v.t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
• (n.) A prostitute.
• (n.) A certain game at cards.
• (v.i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
• (n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
• (v.i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• (v.t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Put.
• (v.t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.
• (v.t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
• (n.) A pit.
• (v.i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

(1) A stipulated privilege of buying or selling a stated property, security, or commodity at a given price (strike price) within a specified time (for an American-style option, at any time prior to or on the expiration date). A securities option is a negotiable contract in which the seller (writer), for a certain sum of money called the option premium, gives the buyer the right to demand within a specified time the purchase (call) or sale (PUT) by the option seller of a specified number of bonds, currency units, index units, or shares of stock at a fixed price or rate called the strike price. Many options are settled for cash equal to the difference between the aggregate spot price and the aggregate strike price rather than by delivery of the underlying. In the U. S. And many other countries, stock options are usually written for units of 100 shares. Other units of underlying coverage are standard in other option markets. Options are ordinarily issued for periods of less than one year, but longer-term options are increasingly common. (2) Any financial contract that changes in value like an option (asymmetrically), even if the terms of the contract do not state the price relationship in terms of a right or privilege or in other language usually associated with options.