Putted vs. Put: What's the Difference?
Putted and Put Definitions
Putted
A light golf stroke made on the putting green in an effort to place the ball into the hole.
Put
To place in a specified location; set
She put the books on the table.
Putted
To hit (a golf ball) with a light stroke on the green.
Put
To cause to be in a specified condition
His gracious manners put me at ease.
Putted
To putt a golf ball.
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Put
To cause (one) to undergo something; subject
The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.
Putted
Simple past tense and past participle of putt
Put
To assign; attribute
They put a false interpretation on events.
Put
To estimate
We put the time at five o'clock.
Put
To impose or levy
The governor has put a tax on cigarettes.
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Put
(Games) To wager (a stake); bet
Put $50 on a horse.
Put
(Sports) To hurl with an overhand pushing motion
Put the shot.
Put
To bring up for consideration or judgment
Put a question to the judge.
Put
To express; state
I put my objections bluntly.
Put
To render in a specified language or literary form
Put prose into verse.
Put
To adapt
The lyrics had been put to music.
Put
To urge or force to an action
A mob that put the thief to flight.
Put
To apply
We must put our minds to it.
Put
To force the purchase of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a put option.
Put
(Nautical) To proceed
The ship put into the harbor.
Put
(Sports) An act of putting the shot.
Put
An option to sell a stipulated amount of stock or securities within a specified time and at a fixed price.
Put
Fixed; stationary
Stay put.
Put
To place something somewhere.
She put her books on the table.
Put
To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
Put your house in order!
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
Put
(finance) To exercise a put option.
He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
Put
To express something in a certain manner.
When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
Put
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.
Put
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
Put
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Put
To attach or attribute; to assign.
To put a wrong construction on an act or expression
Put
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
Put
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
To put a question; to put a case
Put
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
Put
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
Put
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
Put
(finance) Short for put option.
He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
Put
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
The put of a ball
Put
(uncountable) An old card game.
Put
(obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
Put
(obsolete) A prostitute.
Put
A pit.
Put
A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
Put
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
Put
A certain game at cards.
Put
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.
A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
Put
A prostitute.
Put
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).
His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment.
Put
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.
This present dignity,In which that I have put you.
I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
He put no trust in his servants.
When God into the hands of their delivererPuts invincible might.
In the mean time other measures were put in operation.
Put
To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
Put
To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
Put
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.
Let us now put that ye have leave.
Put the perception and you put the mind.
These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
All this is ingeniously and ably put.
Put
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
These wretches put us upon all mischief.
Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.
Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
Put
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.
Put
To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.
Coming from thee, I could not put him back.
Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.
Sugar hath put down the use of honey.
I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue.
We might put him off with this answer.
For the certain knowledge of that truthI put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.
Put
To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
Put
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
Put
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Put
The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Put
Put into a certain place or abstract location;
Put your things here
Set the tray down
Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Place emphasis on a certain point
Put
Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation;
That song put me in awful good humor
Put
Formulate in a particular style or language;
I wouldn't put it that way
She cast her request in very polite language
Put
Attribute or give;
She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
He put all his efforts into this job
The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
Put
Make an investment;
Put money into bonds
Put
Estimate;
We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.
Put
Cause (someone) to undergo something;
He put her to the torture
Put
Adapt;
Put these words to music
Put
Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;
Arrange my schedule
Set up one's life
I put these memories with those of bygone times
