What is the meaning of putting?

noun

• Hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter.
  • usage: "his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet"
  • synonyms: putt

verb

• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation.
  • usage: "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing"
  • synonyms: put
• Formulate in a particular style or language.
  • usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
  • synonyms: frame, redact, cast, put, couch
• Attribute or give.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: put, assign
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, commit, place
• Estimate.
  • usage: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P. M."
  • synonyms: place, put, set
• Cause (someone) to undergo something.
  • usage: "He put her to the torture"
  • synonyms: put
• Adapt.
  • usage: "put these words to music"
  • synonyms: put
• Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
  • usage: "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
  • synonyms: arrange, set up, put, order
• Strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter.
  • usage: "he putted the ball several feet past the hole"
  • synonyms: putt
• Hit a putt.
  • usage: "he lost because he putted so poorly"
  • synonyms: putt