putting

Speech parts

1. putting - Noun

2. putting - Verb

Derived from put

Meaning

of Put

The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

putt order place word position present put judge situation leave offer cast frame lay phrase

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Antonyms

confusing clutch concluding excluding confounding expunging

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Hypernyms

swing golf shot golf stroke

Phrases with the word

putting on the ritz putting out putting up putting on putting in putting on display

Examples

We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church. John Chrysostom

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father? Isaac the Syrian

Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. French Proverb

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. American Proverb

Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

puttied puttier puttiless putting a line through putting back putting faith in