{
  "id": "put.placement",
  "term": "put",
  "sense": "placement",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "put",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to move something into a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The motion of a thing through space results in the thing being located within the place.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "new location",
      "changed spatial relation",
      "spatial transfer"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Curiosity rover placed its seismometer on Mars's surface in 2018 using a robotic arm.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, workers put the final beam atop Taipei 101 during its construction.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron places vesicles filled with neurotransmitters at its synapse for signal transmission.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "add.operation",
    "applying.action",
    "calendar.tool",
    "construction.building",
    "copy.replication",
    "furniture.home",
    "gallery.space",
    "investment.financial",
    "key.tool",
    "map.spatial",
    "message.information",
    "port.harbor",
    "summary.text",
    "take.acquisition",
    "thread.material",
    "transferred.exchange",
    "win.victory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "put",
    "puts",
    "putting"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-put.placement"
}