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PUTT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter

Example:

his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet

Synonyms:

putt; putting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("putt" is a kind of...):

golf shot; golf stroke; swing (the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it)

Derivation:

putt (strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter)

putt (hit a putt)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter

Example:

he putted the ball several feet past the hole

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "putt" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

putt (hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter)

putter (the iron normally used on the putting green)

putter (a golfer who is putting)

putting (hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit a putt

Example:

he lost because he putted so poorly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "putt" is one way to...):

play (participate in games or sport)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

putt (hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter)

putter (the iron normally used on the putting green)

putter (a golfer who is putting)

putting (hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“There,” said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the top of the pile.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Keep that,” said Holmes, quietly putting his foot upon it; “you will find it useful at the trial. But this is what we really wanted.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Putting out my hand in the darkness I came upon something which felt like a huge lump of meat, while my other hand closed upon a large bone.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Avoid putting the baby to bed with a bottle and check teeth regularly for spots or stains.

(Child Dental Health, NIH: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research)

Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Putting down his cigar he softly clapped his fat hands.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Forcing herself to speak, therefore, in the hope of putting it by, she calmly said, “You are quite in the right; it was most natural to pay your visit, then”.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Putting away the letter immediately and forcing a smile, she said: I did not know before that you ever walked this way.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, I don’t see no such difference as all that comes to, and I’m putting ten guineas on my opinion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)