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PUTTING

 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 ("putting" 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

-ing form of the verb put

Sense 2

-ing form of the verb putt

Credits

 Context examples: 

The twelve o’clock dinner was over, one day, and I had just finished putting the cabin in order, when Wolf Larsen and Thomas Mugridge descended the companion stairs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It seems you will be putting the final touches on a project that you may have been working on for a long time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"God knows I don't want to kill him or have him killed," Scott answered, putting away the revolver.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Thank you, Master Copperfield,” returned Uriah, putting his book away upon the shelf—“I suppose you stop here, some time, Master Copperfield?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

The act of putting one thing into another.

(Insertion, NCI Thesaurus)

But it was not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted, in putting an end to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Hullo! Hullo!” he added as he looked hard at the corner of a tracing before putting it in the box.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)