Put vs. Add — What's the Difference?

Move to or place in a particular position

Join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount

Bring into a particular state or condition

Put in (an additional element, ingredient, etc.)

Cause (someone or something) to be subject to something

Put together (two or more numbers or amounts) to calculate their total value

Throw (a shot or weight) as an athletic sport

Say as a further remark

A throw of a shot or weight.

To join or combine (numbers) through addition

Short for put option

To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope

To place in a specified location; set

To say or write further.

To cause to be in a specified condition

To find a sum in arithmetic.

To cause (one) to undergo something; subject

To constitute an addition

To assign; attribute

To create or make an addition

To estimate

(transitive) To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.

To impose or levy

To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.

(Games) To wager (a stake); bet

(transitive) To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.

(Sports) To hurl with an overhand pushing motion

(transitive) To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).

To bring up for consideration or judgment

(transitive) To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information; to add on.

To express; state

(intransitive) To make an addition; to augment; to increase; to add on.

To render in a specified language or literary form

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

To adapt

To summon minions or reinforcements.

To urge or force to an action

(radio) The addition of a song to a station's playlist.

To apply

(computer science) An act or instance of adding.

To force the purchase of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a put option.

(video games) An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.

(Nautical) To proceed

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

(Sports) An act of putting the shot.

To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.

An option to sell a stipulated amount of stock or securities within a specified time and at a fixed price.

To append, as a statement; to say further.

Fixed; stationary

To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.

To place something somewhere.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders

(finance) To exercise a put option.

Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, zise or scope of;

To express something in a certain manner.

State or say further;

(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.

Bestow a quality on;

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Make an addition by combining numbers;

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Determine the sum of;

To attach or attribute; to assign.

Constitute an addition;

(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.

(finance) Short for put option.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

(uncountable) An old card game.

(obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

(obsolete) A prostitute.

A pit.

A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

A certain game at cards.

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.

A prostitute.

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).

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.

To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

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.

To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

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.

To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Put into a certain place or abstract location;

Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation;

Formulate in a particular style or language;

Attribute or give;

Make an investment;

Estimate;

Cause (someone) to undergo something;

Adapt;

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;