put on
/ˌpʊt ˈɒn/ verb- To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). · Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
- To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface. · I put a coat on my daughter.
- To fool, kid, deceive. · You must be putting me on.· She's putting on that she's sicker than she really is.
- To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. · Why are you putting that silly voice on?· He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
- To play (a recording). · I'll put your favorite record on.· Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
- To play (a recording) on (a sound system). · I'll put blues on the stereo.· We usually put the Beatles on on my boombox.
- To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop. · I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
- To perform for an audience. · The actors put on a show last Saturday.· The actors will put Macbeth on only one more time.
From the library
His whiskers cut off, Noirtier gave another turn to his hair; took, instead of his black cravat, a colored neckerchief which lay at the top of an open portmanteau; put on, in lieu of his blue and high-buttoned frock-coat, a coat of Villefort’s of dark brown, and cut away in front; tried on before the glass a narrow-brimmed hat of his son’s, which appeared to fit him perfectly, and, leaving his cane in the corner where he had deposited it, he took up a small bamboo switch, cut the air with it once or twice, and walked about with that easy swagger which was one of his principal characteristics.
“My rings were put on his finger; but when it came to the wedding ring,” he held out his muscular hand, “you can see for yourselves that I had struck the limit.
“I put on my dressing gown and then came down.”
But first you must put on the spectacles.”
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