put about

verb

put about; putting about; puts about

transitive verb

of a ship : to cause to change course or direction

intransitive verb

of a ship : to change course or direction : go on another tack

Examples of put about in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hudgins opened a high-yield savings account and began putting about 20% of each paycheck into it. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

Industry trackers put about 80 percent of Anthropic's revenue in the API and enterprise business, with Claude Code, which passed an $8 billion run rate in May, as the fastest-growing second engine. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

It was painted by San Jose artist Cindy Duong, who put about 100 hours into it, stretched over eight weeks. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

So these other measures that are being put about by the secretary of agriculture and other members of the administration to lower beef prices are really irrelevant to what the market price of beef will be over the next four months. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1607, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for put about

• roundabout
• runabout
• sauerkraut
• thereabout
• turnabout
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout

Kids Definition

put about

verb

: to change course or direction

after sailing north, they put about and headed east