American Sign Language: "put"
The sign for "put" has a lot of variations depending on what you mean.
The general sign for put uses what I call "flattened AND" hands. Or "flattened O" hands. The pad of your thumb is pressed up against the underside of the fingers as if you were holding onto a piece of cardboard and "putting" it somewhere.
PUT:
"Put things away." Grab the items and quickly put them where they go.
"Put in a slot" "Put on a certain shelf"
"Put in a order in a file" Pack
"Sort out"
"Put up with." Uses the sign for "patience" while using a bit of a "suffering" type of facial expression.
PATIENCE:
Also see: MOVE
Also see: THROW
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