Colted vs Costed - What's the difference?
colted | costed |
(colt)
A young male horse.
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
* 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
(obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
* 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
(obsolete) To befool.
* 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
* Spenser
Simple past tense of cost .
Past participle of cost .
The object of a costing.
As verbs the difference between colted and costed
is that colted is (colt) while costed is simple past tense of cost .As an adjective costed is
the object of a costing.colted
English
Verb
(head)colt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
Derived terms
* colt's toothSee also
* stallion, mare, foal, filly, horselingVerb
(en verb)- Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
- What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
- They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
Anagrams
*costed
English
Verb
(head)- We costed the project at $1,000,000.
- We've costed the project at £1,000,000.
Usage notes
* The only non- use is in the sense of "to give a cost to". Where proper grammar is expected, use cost instead for non-specialized past-tense and past-participle uses such as answering the question "How much did it cost ?" * Occasionally replaced with noun or verb forms of price', where commonly accepted, as in, ''"The event's hosting was '''priced at $1,000,000."Adjective
(-)- This was a badly costed project.