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Colted vs Costed - What's the difference?

colted | costed |

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)

  • colt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young male horse.
  • A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  • * 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
  • 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.
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  • Derived terms

    * colt's tooth

    See also

    * stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
  • * 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
  • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
  • (obsolete) To befool.
  • * 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
  • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
  • To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • * Spenser
  • They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    costed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Simple past tense of cost .
  • We costed the project at $1,000,000.
  • Past participle of cost .
  • 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

    (-)
  • The object of a costing.
  • This was a badly costed project.