put on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊt ˈɒn/
Forms: form: puts on
form: putting on
form: put on
form: put on
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
text: And Iacob vowed a vow, ſaying, If God will be with me, and will keepe me in this way that I goe, and will giue me bꝛead to eate, and raiment to put on.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 22:5:
glosses: To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
examples: text: I put a coat on my daughter.
text: I put tinsel on the Christmas tree.
glosses: To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.
examples: text: You must be putting me on.
text: She's putting on that she's sicker than she really is.
glosses: To fool, kid, deceive.
examples: text: Why are you putting that silly voice on?
text: He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
glosses: To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
examples: text: I'll put your favorite record on.
text: Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
glosses: To play (a recording).
examples: text: I'll put blues on the stereo.
text: We usually put The Beatles on on my boombox.
glosses: To play (a recording) on (a sound system).
examples: text: I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
glosses: To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
examples: text: The actors put on a show last Saturday.
text: The actors will put "Macbeth" on only one more time.
glosses: To perform for an audience.
examples: text: The theatre company is putting on "Into the Woods" this season.
glosses: To organize a performance for an audience.
examples: text: Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:
glosses: To provide.
examples: text: I put five pounds on that racehorse.
glosses: To bet (money or other items) on (something).
examples: text: The gang boss put some goons on the other gang.
text: The witch put a hex on me.
text: Carl has been put on the front desk for tonight's shift.
glosses: To assign or apply (something) to a target.
examples: text: I hope they put me on TV.
text: They put her on a billboard.
glosses: To give (someone) a role in popular media.
examples: I put SpongeBob on when the kid gets fussy.
glosses: To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen.
examples: text: I put on at least five kilos over the holidays.
glosses: To gain (weight).
examples: text: He put the pen on the table.
text: Put it on the list.
text: The doctor put me on a diet.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
examples: text: Sophia […] saw several horses coming after on full speed. This greatly alarmed her fears, and she called to the guide to put on as fast as possible.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
Synonyms: sense: literal—on a list
word: put down
word: enlist
sense: don clothing
word: beclothe
word: clothe
sense: fool, kid, deceive
word: hoodwink
word: deceive
sense: move swiftly forward
word: hasten
word: speed up
Related terms: word: put-on
english: on
translation: on
word: put one over
word: don
word: wear