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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.
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



... small but clean. I mean clean now. It wasn't during blastoff. The inertial gravities didn't bother me so much as the gyroscopic spin they put on the ship so we have a sort of artificial gravity to hold us against the curved floor. It's that constant whirly feeling that gets me. I get sick on ...
— The Dope on Mars • John Michael Sharkey
... of the "Prefaces" he says "If the time should ever come when that which is now called science shall be ready to put on as it were a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his Divine spirit to aid the transformation, and will welcome the Being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man." He feels that the loving ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... cold; we have no fire and no food. I have been everywhere to look for work and find nothing. But I put on my hat to go out and try once more. Grandmother ask me what I do. I tell her I go again to look for work. She say: 'No, child, you stay here with your mother to-day; it is ...
— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams
... forms here a deep bay, with a low sand island in the midst; and its course among the mountains is agreeably exchanged for the black volcanic rock. The weather during the day had been very bright and extremely hot; but, as usual, so soon as the sun went down, it was necessary to put on overcoats. ...
— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
... this time, and a violin beside the piano; and she had on a black frock. He had never seen her in black. Her face and neck were powdered over their sunburn. The first sight of that powder gave him a faint shock. He had not somehow thought that ladies ever put on powder. But if SHE did—then it must be right! And his eyes never left her. He saw the young German violinist hovering round her, even dancing with her twice; watched her dancing with others, but all without jealousy, without ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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