These are the meanings of the letters UPTA when you unscramble them.
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Apt (a.)
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
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Apt (a.)
Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
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Apt (a.)
Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
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Apt (a.)
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
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Apt (v. t.)
To fit; to suit; to adapt.
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Pat (v. t.)
To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
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Pat (n.)
A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
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Pat (n.)
A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
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Pat (a.)
Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
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Pat (adv.)
In a pat manner.
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Put (n.)
A pit.
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Put ()
3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
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Put (n.)
A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
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Put (imp. & p. p.)
of Put
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Put (v. t.)
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).
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Put (v. t.)
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.
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Put (v. t.)
To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
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Put (v. t.)
To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
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Put (v. t.)
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.
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Put (v. t.)
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
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Put (v. t.)
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.
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Put (v. t.)
To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
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Put (v. i.)
To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
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Put (v. i.)
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
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Put (v. i.)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
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Put (n.)
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
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Put (n.)
A certain game at cards.
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Put (n.)
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.
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Put (n.)
A prostitute.
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Tap (v. t.)
To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
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Tap (v. t.)
To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
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Tap (n.)
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
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Tap (n.)
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
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Tap (n.)
A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
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Tap (v. i.)
To strike a gentle blow.
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Tap (n.)
A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
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Tap (n.)
A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
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Tap (n.)
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
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Tap (n.)
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
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Tap (n.)
A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
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Tap (v. t.)
To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
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Tap (v. t.)
Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
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Tap (v. t.)
To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
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Tap (v. t.)
To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
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Tau (n.)
The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/).
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Tup (v. t. & i.)
To butt, as a ram does.
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Tup (v. t. & i.)
To cover; -- said of a ram.
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Tup (n.)
A ram.