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Sticking vs Putting - What's the difference?

sticking | putting |

As verbs the difference between sticking and putting

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

As nouns the difference between sticking and putting

is that sticking is a sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks while putting is (obsolete) instigation or incitement; enticement or putting can be (golf) the action of the verb to putt .

sticking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
  • * 1997 , Gary Cook, Teaching percussion (page 72)
    • Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.

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    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.
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    * (l) English heteronyms