put on

verb puts on · putting on · put on

1. transitive To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
2. ditransitive, transitive To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface. I put a coat on my daughter.
3. intransitive, transitive To fool, kid, deceive. You must be putting me on.
4. transitive To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. Why are you putting that silly voice on?
5. transitive To play (a recording). I'll put your favorite record on.
6. ditransitive, transitive To play (a recording) on (a sound system). I'll put blues on the stereo.
7. transitive To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop. I'll put on some coffee for everybody.
8. transitive To perform for an audience. The actors put on a show last Saturday.
9. transitive To organize a performance for an audience. The theatre company is putting on Into the Woods this season.
10. transitive To provide. 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).
11. ditransitive, transitive To bet (money or other items) on (something). I put five pounds on that racehorse.
12. ditransitive, transitive To assign or apply (something) to a target. The gang boss put some goons on the other gang.
13. transitive To give (someone) a role in popular media. I hope they put me on TV.
14. transitive To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen. I put SpongeBob on when the kid gets fussy.
15. dated, transitive To switch on (a device). "Then the meter had been put on again?"
16. transitive To gain (weight). I put on at least five kilos over the holidays.
17. transitive Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on. He put the pen on the table.
18. intransitive, obsolete, transitive To hurry up; to move swiftly forward. 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.

Similar: put down