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Definition: Putty |
PuttyNoun1. A dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass. Verb1. Apply putty in order to fix or fill, as of a window sash, for example. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "putty" was first used: 1663. (references) |
Note: Putty \Put"ty\, noun; plural Putties. [Written also puttee, puttie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Mixture of whiting(chalk)with from 12 to 18 per cent of linseed oil, with or without white lead or other pigment; containers must be air-tight; used in sealant, glass setting, caulking agent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of working in putty, denotes that hazardous chances will be taken with fortune. If you put in a window-pane with putty, you will seek fortune with poor results. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Metallurgy | Heavy paste composed of a pigment or an extender, e. g. whiting, mixed with a vehicle, e. g. linseed oil. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To fill up with putty, with the aid of a knife blade, the holes and irregularities in a surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So, Putty, you're selling cars now. No more being a grease monkey (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) You must be Amy. I gave you Silly Putty once for Christmas (Fly Away Home; writing credit: Robert Rodat) I told you I'm putty in your hands (Crimes and Misdemeanors; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Putty Tat Trouble (1951) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Animated Putty (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Do not depend on the putty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Very good sales prospects exist for products under Harmonized System (HS) codes 69.08.00, 84.81.00, 44.07.00, 31.14.00, and 83.02.00. These products include glazed ceramic flags and paving, plumbing fittings and faucets, wood sawn or chipped, putty, caulking compounds, painters’ fillings, builders’ hardware and fittings, veneer sheets, indoor walls and floors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Putty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.12% of the time. "Putty" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.12% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 113 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "putty" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Putty | Last name | 200 | 39,516 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "putty": bouncing putty ♦ glazier's putty ♦ glaziers' putty ♦ iron putty ♦ put putty round ♦ putty knife ♦ putty medal ♦ putty powder ♦ putty up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "putty": putty-coloured, Putty-faced, putty-oyster. | |
Ending with "putty": re-putty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "putty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stukoj (calk, caulk), stuko (lute, luting, mastic, stucco), bojë hiri e çelët. (various references) | |
Arabic | معجن, معجون للزجاج, شخص يسهل التأثير فيه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фин хоросан, маджуносвам, маджун за прозорци, прах за полиране. (various references) | |
Chinese | 油灰 (Putties). (various references) | |
Czech | zatmelit (fill), tmelit (bind), tmel (binder, cement, filler, luting, mastic), kytovat, kyt. (various references) | |
Danish | tinoxyd (tin oxide), tinaske (scruff, tin ash, tin oxide), spartle (fill), kit (mastic, surfacer), fugemasse (filling-up putty, sealant, sealing agent, sealing compound). (various references) | |
Dutch | plamuursel, plamuur (filler, primer, priming coat, surfacer), tinoxide (tin oxide), stopverf (knifing filler, spackle, stopper), stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill in, fill up, halt, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, place, plug up, put, put down, stop, stop up), mesplamuur (filling-up putty), mastiek (mastic), kitten (stopping), kit (coal-scuttle, glue). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mastiko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kitt. (various references) | |
Farsi | سرنج , زاموسقه زدن , زاموسقه , ادم ساده وزودباور, بتونه کردن , بتونه (Primer). (various references) | |
Finnish | kitti (cement), kitata (cement). (various references) | |
French | mastiquer, mastic (filling-up putty). (various references) | |
German | kitten (cement, fill, patch up), Kitt (bond, cement, lute, puttee), Glaserkitt. (various references) | |
Greek | στόκοσ (knotting, stucco), στόκος πλήρωσης (filling-up putty), στόκος (grout, stucco), βουλώνω με στόκον, βουλώνω (belt up, bung, calk, caulk, choke up, clog, plug, stopple), μαστίχη (mastic), πάστα από οξείδιο κασσιτέρου (tin oxide). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "בק שמשות, טפולת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragacs (crap, goo), gitt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gala-gala, dempul (boat caulking, glazier). (various references) | |
Italian | stuccare (cloy, get fed up, plaster, stucco), mastice (lute, mastic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パテ (pate). (various references) | |
Manx | teayst chelk, puttee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | betume (asphalt, bitumen, mastic). (various references) | |
Russian | шпаклевка, замазывать замазкой, замазывать замазка, замазка (lute, luting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prozorski lepak, lepiti prozorsko staklo, gitovati, git. (various references) | |
Spanish | masilla (glazier's putty, lute, mastic). (various references) | |
Swedish | kitt (cement, lute), spackla (fill). (various references) | |
Thai | ปูนอุ"รอยรั่ว. (various references) | |
Turkish | oyuncak (plaything, sport, toy), macunlamak (impaste, putty up), macunla sıvamak, macun (cement, dope, lute, paste, priming, priming material), kukla (doll, Dolly, dummy, dupe, figurehead, marionette, poppet, puppet), camcı macunu (glaziers' putty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шпаклювати, шпаклівка, віск (bees-wax, wax), мастика (lute, mastic), замазка (cement), жовтувато-сірий колір. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dao gắn mát tít (putty knife). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | pot. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "putty": puttying, puttyless, puttylike, puttyroot, puttyroots. (additional references) | |
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"Putty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gutty, pettey, phutt, pitty, plutt, pnutt, Pottie, Pottu, potyf, pouty, prutt, prutty, pty, pudd, purtt, purty, pushti, Pushtu, Pustyn, putey, puti, putity, putta, putte, putti, putto, puttz, puty, Puxty, pyttyll, upty, uty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "putty" (pronounced pu"tē) |
| 3 | -u" t ē | Cutty, Nutty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "p-t-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: putt. | |
-2 letters: put, tup, tut, yup. | |
-3 letters: up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-t-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: outpity. | |
+3 letters: autotype, autotypy, puttying, tittuppy, unpretty. | |
+4 letters: autotypes, pituitary, putridity, puttyless, puttylike, puttyroot, spluttery, stupidity. | |
+5 letters: autotrophy, autotypies, multiparty, nuptiality, outpitying, perpetuity, petulantly, putatively, puttyroots. | |
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