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Putting vs Applying - What's the difference?

putting | applying |

As verbs the difference between putting and applying

is that putting is or putting can be (golf) while applying is .

As nouns the difference between putting and applying

is that putting is (obsolete) instigation or incitement; enticement or putting can be (golf) the action of the verb to putt while applying is the act of applying.

putting

English

Etymology 1

See put

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (obsolete) Instigation or incitement; enticement.
  • * 1736 , Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ , page 353:
    • ...and then if there be a putting in fear al?o, the clergy is ou?ted in all the ca?es mentiond in this ?tatute.
  • The action or result of the verb put .

    • Etymology 2

    See putt

    Verb

    (head)
  • (golf)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (golf) The action of the verb to putt .
  • (golf) A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    See also

    * (l) English heteronyms

    applying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The act of applying.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying' a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to ' applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.}}