What's the difference between put and sack?

Put


Definition:

  • (n.) A pit.
  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
  • (n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Put
  • (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).
  • (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 attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
  • (v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  • (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 incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
  • (v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
  • (v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  • (v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
  • (n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
  • (n.) A certain game at cards.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A prostitute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (3) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (4) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (5) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (6) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
  • (7) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (8) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (9) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (10) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (11) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (12) The evidence – which was obtained through an ongoing criminal investigation – was then put to McRoberts by the NT government “and his reaction was to resign”.
  • (13) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (14) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
  • (15) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (16) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (17) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (18) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (19) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (20) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.

Sack


Definition:

  • (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
  • (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
  • (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
  • (n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
  • (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
  • (n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
  • (n.) Bed.
  • (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
  • (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
  • (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
  • (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
  • (2) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
  • (3) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (4) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
  • (5) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
  • (6) Sacked Cronulla star Todd Carney said he was shattered when he learned a picture of him urinating in his own mouth in a nightclub toilet had been posted on social media.
  • (7) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
  • (8) The Welshman was sacked by a club who felt he could not meet their target of a place in the top four despite being given £200m to spend on players and further huge investment in training facilities and other infrastructure at the club.
  • (9) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (10) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
  • (11) Most of the directors had lost faith in Moyes in February and Woodward's opinion was that he could have been sacked, justifiably, any time over the last two months.
  • (12) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
  • (13) Arnesen then compounded his problems by connecting sackings of his own scouting staff to Abramovich's recent financial losses - angering the Russian billionaire.
  • (14) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
  • (15) What a transformation for Coleman who, just over a year ago, had to fend off calls for the sack.
  • (16) Shoesmith was sacked without compensation by the north London council in December 2008 after a public and media outcry over the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly, known as Baby P , a year earlier.
  • (17) The military leadership should have been sacked after the loss of Crimea, he said.
  • (18) The entire Carnarvon council should be sacked after refusing to fly the Aboriginal flag during Naidoc week, the local MP says.
  • (19) Luckily for him, nobody chose to point out that this was the least he could have done to guarantee he wouldn’t have to sack himself if the electorate voted to leave.
  • (20) This will mean that if you are sacked because your boss takes against you or because of a misunderstanding, you will be on your own unless you can afford to pay for a lawyer or you are a member of a trade union.

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