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Put on   /pʊt ɑn/   Listen
Put on

verb
1.
Put clothing on one's body.  Synonyms: assume, don, get into, wear.  "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"
2.
Add to something existing.
3.
Put on the stove or ready for cooking.
4.
Carry out (performances).  Synonym: turn in.  "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game"
5.
Add to the odometer.
6.
Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance.  Synonym: mount.  "Mount an attack" , "Mount a play"
7.
Apply to a surface.  Synonym: apply.  "Put on make-up!"
8.
Fool or hoax.  Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put one across, put one over, slang, take in.  "You can't fool me!"
9.
Increase (one's body weight).  Synonym: gain.  Antonym: reduce.
adjective
1.
Adopted in order to deceive.  Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, sham.  "An assumed cheerfulness" , "A fictitious address" , "Fictive sympathy" , "A pretended interest" , "A put-on childish voice" , "Sham modesty"



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"Put on" Quotes from Famous Books



... until Helen went out—Mr, Faber insisting she should do so every day. It was no madness, but a burning desire for life, coupled with an utter carelessness of that which is commonly called life, that now ruled his behaviour. He tied his slippers on his feet, put on his smoking-cap, crept unseen from the house, and took the direction, of the Abbey. The influence of the air—by his weakness rendered intoxicating, the strange look of everything around him, the nervous excitement of every human approach, ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

... clearing the Ship, having a Store House to put our Stores, etc., in. In the P.M. I went up to Town in order to put on board the first Dutch Ship that Sails, a pacquet for the Admiralty containing a Copy of my Journal, a Chart of the South Sea, another of New Zeeland, and one of the East Coast of New Holland. In the ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook

... think it did calm us. That's why the old fellow went to sleep and snored all through the last twelve acts. I think it's the heaviest and stupidest play that was ever put on the stage. Of course it's the greatest thing ever written, but then I ...
— Punchinello Vol. II., No. 30, October 22, 1870 • Various

... cover the frame with bark and then thatch it, which will render the shelter better able to withstand a storm, or you may omit the bark, using only the thatch as a covering. Put on very thick, this should make ...
— On the Trail - An Outdoor Book for Girls • Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard

... referred to, he resolved to pretend that he was Count Broglio's nephew, the dead commander of the detachment which he had just destroyed. Dressing himself in that officer's clothes, he ordered his men to put on the clothing of the other dead royalists. Then he took six of his best men, with their own Camisard uniforms on, and bound them with ropes, to represent prisoners. One of them had been wounded in the arm, and his bloody sleeve ...
— Strange Stories from History for Young People • George Cary Eggleston


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