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English
Pronunciation
Verb
put on (third-person singular simple present puts on, present participle putting on, simple past and past participle put on) (transitive)
- To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
Why don't you put on your jacket. It's cold.
- 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 on that silly voice?
He's just putting on that limp -- his leg's actually fine.
- To play (a recording).
I'll put on your favorite record.
Can you put on The Sound of Music? I'd like to see it again.
- 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.
- To organize a performance for an audience.
- (obsolete) To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
- (transitive) To bet on.
- I put five pounds on that racehorse.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
He put the pen on the table.
Put it on the list.
The doctor put me on a diet.
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to don clothing
- Arabic: لَبِسَ (ar) (labisa), اِرْتَدَى (irtadā)
- Moroccan Arabic: دار (dær), لْبس (lbəs)
- Azerbaijani: taxmaq (az), geymək (az)
- Bashkir: кейеү (keyew)
- Belarusian: надзява́ць impf (nadzjavácʹ), надзе́ць pf (nadzjécʹ)
- Bulgarian: обли́чам (bg) impf (oblíčam), облека́ pf (obleká)
- Catalan: posar-se (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 穿上 (zh) (chuānshang), 穿 (zh) (chuān)
- Czech: oblékat (cs) impf, obléct (cs) pf
- Danish: iføre sig, tage på
- Dutch: aantrekken (nl), aandoen (nl)
- Esperanto: surmeti
- Finnish: pukea ylleen, laittaa päälle, panna päälle, pistää päälle
- French: mettre (fr), enfiler (fr)
- Friulian: vistî
- German: anziehen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽 (gahamōn)
- Greek: βάζω (el) (vázo)
- Ancient: ἕννυμι (hénnumi), ἐνδύω (endúō)
- Ancient Greek: βιβάζω (bibázō)
- Greenlandic: ativaa
- Hindi: पहनना (hi) (pahannā)
- Hungarian: felvesz (hu)
- Icelandic: fara í
- Ido: metar (io)
- Irish: cuir ar
- Italian: vestire (it)
- Japanese: 着る (ja) (きる, kiru), 履く (ja) (はく, haku), 被る (ja) (かぶる, kaburu)
- Khmer: ពាក់ (km) (pĕək)
- Korean: 입다 (ko) (ipda)
- Lao: ໃສ່ (sai)
- Latgalian: maukt, viļkt
- Latin: induō, sūmō (la)
- Latvian: vilkt, aut
- Lithuanian: auti
- Macedonian: облекува impf (oblekuva)
- Ngazidja Comorian: upvamɓa, (shoes) nkabwa
- Old English: dōn on
- Pashto: اغوستل (ps) (aγustəl)
- Persian: پوشیدن (fa) (pušidan)
- Polish: wkładać (pl) impf, włożyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: vestir (pt), pôr (pt)
- Russian: надева́ть (ru) impf (nadevátʹ), наде́ть (ru) pf (nadétʹ)
- Sanskrit: प्रवस्ते (pravaste), वस्ते (sa) (vaste)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: обући pf
- Roman: obući (sh) pf
- Sidamo: wodhdha
- Slovak: obliekať impf, obliecť pf
- Slovene: obléči pf
- Spanish: ponerse (es)
- Swedish: sätta på sig
- Thai: ใส่ (th) (sài), สวมใส่ (sǔuam-sài), สวม (th) (sǔuam), ครอง (th) (krɔɔng)
- Tocharian B: wäs-
- Turkish: giymek (tr)
- Ukrainian: надіва́ти impf (nadiváty), надяга́ти impf (nadjaháty), наді́ти pf (nadíty), вдяга́ти (uk) impf (vdjaháty), одягти́ pf (odjahtý)
- Urdu: پہننا (pahannā)
- Vietnamese: mặc vào, (spectacles, earrings, etc.) đeo vào, (shoes) đi vào (vi)
- Walloon: mete (wa)
- Yiddish: אָנטאָן (onton)
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to behave in a particular way as a pretense
to play recorded music
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 放 (fong3)
- Dutch: opzetten (nl)
- Finnish: soittaa (fi), laittaa soimaan, panna soimaan, pistää soimaan
- Hungarian: (music, especially LP, occasionally CD) feltesz (hu), (something to be inserted, e.g. VCR cassette, CD, DVD) betesz (hu), berak (hu)
- Russian: ста́вить (ru) impf (stávitʹ), поста́вить (ru) pf (postávitʹ)
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to initiate cooking or warming
to hurry up; to move swiftly forward
See also
References
- “put on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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