Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To propose for consideration.
WordNet
v. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, posit]
insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!" [syn: assert]
evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, call forth]
cause to protrude or as if to protrude; "stick one's hand out of the window"; "stick one's nose into other people's business" [syn: stick]
propose as a candidate for some honor [syn: nominate, put up]
Usage examples of "put forward".
Some of this evidence I shall attempt to put forward in this essay.
I read recently of an ingenious plan put forward by Russian engineers, for making the White Sea and the northern coasts of Siberia warm, by putting a dam across the Kara Sea.
Year after year he put forward reasons for visiting Fukien province, but each time the Emperor refused to let his wise Prime Minister leave his side.
Before the theory of relativity was put forward, it was difficult to become reconciled to this negative result, for reasons now to be discussed.
And it is not valid to put forward the objection that a bewitchment is sometimes caused by an old woman evilly looking at a child, by which the child is changed and bewitched.
Instead of offering concessions, he put forward demands which anyone, not just the Boman, would have considered insulting.
He put forward a proposal during an afternoon bridge game on Sarah's backyard patio.
It played a brief vidnews item describing a new movement in the Senate pushing for an Appeasement Vote to outlaw the Jedi and accept the truce terms put forward by Warmaster Tsavong Lah.