PUTT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does putt mean? 

• PUTT (noun)
  The noun PUTT has 1 sense:

1. hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter

  Familiarity information: PUTT used as a noun is very rare.

• PUTT (verb)
  The verb PUTT has 2 senses:

1. strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter

2. hit a putt

  Familiarity information: PUTT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUTT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

putt; putting

Context example:

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

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)

• PUTT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they putt    ... he / she / it putts   
Past simple: putted   
Past participle: putted   
-ing form: putting

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

he putted the ball several feet past the hole

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

he lost because he putted so poorly

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)

 Context examples 

Mr. Wood is in the vestry, sir, putting on his surplice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

See if you can delay putting a bid on a house or closing on an apartment during the retrograde.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Several more days were consumed in finishing the sails and putting them on.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I started up in bed, and putting out my arms in the dark, said: Is that you, Peggotty?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You are a good soul," cried Captain Harville, putting his hand on her arm, quite affectionately.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I too have seen the need of putting down at present everything, however trivial; but there is little in this except what is personal.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Very well," she answered, and putting on the Golden Cap she uttered the magic words.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But now Lip-lip was his dog, and he proceeded to wreak his vengeance on him by putting him at the end of the longest rope.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I don’t like it,” he whispered, putting his lips to my very ear.

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

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

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)