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Put On

Definition: Put On

Put On

Adjective

1. Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty".

Verb

1. Put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "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; "She put on a sun room".

3. Put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!".

4. Carry out, as of performances: "They turned in a splendid effort"; 'They turned in top jobs for the second straight gaem".

5. Add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip".

6. Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack'; "mount a play".

7. Apply to a surface: "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!".

8. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

9. Increase (one's body weight).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Put On

Synonyms: assumed (adj), false (adj), fictitious (adj), fictive (adj), pretended (adj), sham (adj), apply (v), assume (v), befool (v), cod (v), don (v), dupe (v), fool (v), gain (v), get into (v), gull (v), mount (v), put one across (v), put one over (v), slang (v), take in (v), turn in (v), wear (v). (additional references)
Antonym: reduce (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Put On

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Clothing

Wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Haste

Quicken; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.

Punishment

Torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.

Velocity

Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Put On

English words defined with "put on": act, adjudicate, admonish, airs, alert, allowance, assume, Assument, attireback burner, blacklistcaution, change, Clubhaul, creamday, deck out, deck up, Dight, Don, dress, dress down, dress upfancy up, fatigue, fatigue duty, fig out, fig up, finish coat, finishing coat, Flatting coatget dressed, get into, get up, gussy uphad better, haticejudgeLacquering, languidly, Loricationmanifest, mean solar day, monishnaumachia, naumachyought, overdresspose, prink, pullover, put inqui viveReland, Reship, revenue stamp, rig out, Ritz, Robing roomshoeshine, should, slip on, slipover, solar day, spectacular, stress incontinence, submitTaled, To back a rope, To draw to memory, To gird on, To put on, To slip on, To try on, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up, try, try on, twenty-four hoursunderdress, UnderglazeWar paint, wearYule block, Yule log. (references)
Specialty definitions using "put on": Barataria, Bartholomew's problemCALENDER-ROLL PRESS OPERATOR, CHILD-CARE ATTENDANT, SCHOOL, Clear-coat, Container on FlatcarDying SayingsFine WritingGuineapigHatches, Haul over the Coals, HEMPlocality markmaster sheetPericles' Boast, Phryne, pull-onquick-donning maskrespiratory device, respiratory protective deviceScornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings, Singing Apple, SKIRTLIKE UPPER, STEENKIRK, storm ladder, story. (references)
Etymologies containing "put on": Sleeve. (references)

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Modern Usage: Put On

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Put on your Sunday best, kids, we're going to Sears! (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner)

Virgins, put on your no entry signs. (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny? (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner)

I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew - and cover it up with a backwards cap and we're supposed to swoon? (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.)

And I think I've finally found what I was put on this earth to do (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Lyrics

Feelin' kinda better, put on your sweater (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

If you had let me know, I wouldn't have put on my clothes (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Put on a little makeup makeup (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant)

Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I won't put on cologne (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon)

Clever

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? (references; author: unknown)

A sweater is usually put on a child when the parent feels chilly. (references; author: unknown)

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Put on the Spout (1931)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Put On

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Put on a Great Conference: A Straightforward, Friendly and Practical Guide (reference)

  • Let's Put on a Musical!: How to Choose the Right Show for Your Theater (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Biography - Dick Van Dyke: Put on a Happy Face (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Put On

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Put On

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Who stole the tarts?] Here the Queen put on her spectacles and began staring at the Hatter .. Credit: Library of Congress.

Columbia (to the three territories) - Your stars shall be put on the flag just as soon as those politicians in Congress will let me / Keppler ; J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. On this assembly line, final touches are put on nearly-completed bomb shack. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to put on the uniform of the U.S. Army, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, is shown how to buckle on his ammunition belt. Doing the showing is Sergeant John H. Chynowe. Credit: Library of Congress.

A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an automobile plant and put on war Production. When workmen have finished their conversion job, the big fellow began shaping crankshafts for defense. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jim Fletcher stopping to put on chains while crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee during a snow storm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Group of Portuguese who put on a one-hour program daily over station KROW. Oakland, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

A singer, who with the symphony orchestra, helped put on a radio broadcast for the local people. Palermo, Sicily. Credit: Library of Congress.

United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth snapped on the Capitol steps today, as they watched the Indians from Arizona put on their snake dance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Put On

AuthorQuotation

Akhenaton

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Herbert Spencer

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Jean De La Bruyere

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

Samuel Johnson

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Shakespeare

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks.

William Shakespeare

For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Put On

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man nine tenths are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and cast up the several expences about them, what in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The Allied and Associated Powers will address a request to the Government of the Netherlands for the surrender to them of the ex-Emperor in order that he may be put on trial. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Put On

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

I must put on a few ornaments now, because it is expected of me.

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring hard at the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Sombre as it was, it put on the kindest of its moods to welcome her.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

She put on a little round cap which concealed her shorn head, and with that she was still pretty.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His mother put on the oilsheet.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Then he put on the cap, and by pulling started the future ruin of the visor.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

He desired to see no more, and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Put On

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Put on clean clothes. (references)

I've put on weight, especially around my waist. (references)

Getting sealants put on is simple and painless. (references)

Business

Chileans learn quickly and are easy to train, but emphasis must be put on this issue and on the post-sales support. (references)

The case was put on hold in the fall of 1996, following the German cabinet's approval of a proposal to reform German procurement law. (references)

Increasing importance is being put on funding exercises that include more involvement by Czech organizations within the existing EU power-related programs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

In addition, the Government stipulated that no markers be put on individual graves and that no mortuary facilities be built on the site, making it impossible to perform a proper burial. (references)

Hong Kong

During this time period the Hong Kong Catholic Church reportedly had many contacts and exchanges with its counterparts in the mainland's official church put on hold. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

Most capital outlays were put on hold, and companies have taken drastic cost-cutting measures. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Some cases were put on the Court's calendar for fuller consideration, but because of the extreme complexity of the procedure, and because the Government has failed to reply expeditiously or at all to the initial complaints accepted by the ECHR, no cases have yet been heard on their merits. (references)

East Timor

In November the leader of the group, Jacobus Bere, was put on trial in Jakarta, Indonesia for first- and second-degree murder following a joint Government of Indonesia-UNTAET investigation of the incident. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

Legislative sessions may be put on hold until a new assembly has been elected. (references)

Trade

Czech Rep

Czech labeling requirements are in the process of harmonizing with EU norms; the process should be finished in 2002. Czech importers and distributors are responsible for the correct labeling of products that are put on the Czech market and can typically advise the U.S. exporter of specific requirements regarding labeling and marking. (references)

Thailand

The Government plans to establish a special economic zone with duty-free zone status to facilitate export-based industries in the Southern Seaboard Area . The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has conducted a study of this project funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) . In addition, on June 2, 1997, the NESDB hired a U.S.-led consortium under the sponsorship of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) to undertake a feasibility study on the development of a Southern Seaboard Ports and Industrial Complex development project . However, because of the economic crisis, the project has been put on hold. (references)

Croatia

All information must be in Croatian and affixed to (or accompanying) each product before it is put on the market. (references)

Women

Korea

Authorities can order offenders to stay away from victims for up to 6 months and to be put on probation or to see court-designated counselors. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Put On

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Catherine Zeta-Jones

It's hard and Rob Marshall, his brilliance along with Bill Kander found the missing link that were put on screen.

Mike Medavoy

The director. And most of the work that we did, we put on the director. You know, we basically backed filmmakers, and we backed people.

Robert Novak

Mr. Commissioner, just before the Fourth of July holiday began, your boss, Mayor Bloomberg, made a comment that I'd like to put on the air for the viewers to listen to.

Rush Limbaugh

In Hollywood, many times decisions on what programs to put on the air and what people to hire come down to one question.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Put On

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Negotiations are going on to put on a permanent basis the liberal system of commerce now carried on between us and the Empire of Russia.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989I have spoken of our domestic goals and the limitations which we should put on our National Government.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001You made a good start by passing that law which applies to Congress all the laws you put on the private sector, and I was proud to sign it yesterday.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Put On

Expressions using "put on": piece put on put on a coat put on a hat put on a lot of weight put on a mask put on a new scent put on a par put on a pedestal put on a proud performance put on a stopper put on a sulky expression put on airs put on an act put on an appearance of surprise put on diet put on display put on dog put on end put on flesh put on frill put on full steam put on more butter put on one side put on one's best bib and tucker put on one's clothes put on one's coat put on one's glad rags put on one's guard put on one's hat put on one's mettle put on one's shoes put on one's thinking cap put on paper put on record put on scent put on shoes put on short allowance put on show put on side put on socks put on speed put on style put on the bill put on the brake put on the brakes put on the buskin put on the clock put on the dogs put on the light put on the line put on the map put on the market put on the ropes put on the scent put on the shelf put on the slate put on the sock put on the spot put on the stage put on the table put on to put on trial put on underneath put on weigh put on weight To put on To put on one's trumps. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Put On

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

put on a condom

148

put on make up

127

put on a tie

38

put on weight

32

put on a happy face

20

put on eye make up

12

put on your dancing shoes

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Put On

Language Translations for "put on"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

opsit (put), omsit (put), aantrek (put), aanskakel (put, start, switch, switch on, turn on), aansit (draw up to the table, put, sit down to table). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), shfaq (bear, display, evince, exert, exhibit, flash, indicate, manifest, outspeak, pour out, present, proclaim, profess, read off, show, testify), organizoj (call, organize, plan), marr pamjen, aktivizoj (activate, Energize, start, swotch on, turn on), aktivizohem (activate, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متكلف (affected, artificial, assumed, constrained, factitious, faked, false, feigned, forced, mannered, overacted, sham, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏إصطنع (constrain), ‏إرتدى (don, dress, pop on, shove on, wear), ‏أدى (bring, bring about, conduct, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, perform, result). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

майтапя (spoof), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), извозвам (haul), искам много висока цена (overcharge, put it on), пародия (burlesque, mimicry, mock, parody, rib, send up, skit, take off, travesty), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate, stage), придавам си, прибавям към цената на, привиден (colorable, colourable, factitious, fictitious, formal, left handed, ostensible, ostentatious, outward, phantom, seeming, superficial, token), правя се на (act, personate, play, seem, simulate), превземка (affectation, grimace), престорен (affected, bogus, factitious, feigned, mimic, phoney, pretended, sham, simulated, synthetic), използувам (apply, embrace, employ, exploit, impose, impress, milk, play on, put upon, seize, take advantage of, use, utilize), бележа (earmark, notch up), свързвам с (relate to), мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, sell, send, shaft, shoot, sling, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), напълнявам (flesh, gain weight), налагам върху, обличам (accouter, accoutre, attire, clothe, coat, deck, dress, dress up, endue, garb, garment, get on, gird, habit, invest, pull on, pull over, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), обувам (pull on, put on shoes, roll on, shoe, step in), отбелязвам (commemorate, make, make notes, margin, notch up, note, notice, observe, plot, record, register, remark, set down, signalize, tag, write down), организирам (get together, mastermind, orchestrate, organize, promote, regiment, set on foot, sponsor, stage, stage-manage), възлагам (allocate, allot, apportion, assign, commission, depute, detail, endue, entrust, indue, rest, set), турям (put, set, stick), слагам (apply, deposit, fit in, fix, ground, implant, impose, lay, lay down, pass, pitch, place, plank down, pop, posit, position, pull on, put, put down, put in, put to, rest, run, set, sew on, ship, stand, stick, stick down, vat), слагам напред, слагам върху (superpose, throw on), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

穿 (pass through, penetrate, perforate, pierce, to bore through, to dress, to put on, to thread, to wear), 化妝 (to put on make-up), "' (exercise, practice, to act, to put on a play), (to bear, to put on, to respect, to support, wear), 剎車 (put on the brakes), 展覽 (exhibition, show, to exhibit, to put on display), 展出 (to be on show, to exhibit, to put on display), 備案 (enterin the records, put on record), 列入 (put on a list). (various references)

   

Czech

  

obout se, obout (shoe), obléci (do on, dress, endue, enrobe, get into), nasadit (fix, move in, seed, use). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tuschere (put on a wash, tint, wash), ringformede afstivninger af staal,der skal virke som bulestoppere,indbygges af og til i roerledninger (steel sleeves to serve as buckling(or buckle)arrestors are sometimes put on pipelines), lavere (beat, put on a wash, tint, to tack, wash), kollodium-stoettefilmen paafoeres i en ekssikkator,fyldt med silikagel (the collodion-backing film is put on in a desiccator filled with Silica Gel), evne til muskelansaetning (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity), evne til koedaflejring (ability to put on meat, fleshing ability, meat producing capacity, muscle growth capacity). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opleggen (clear, clear-down, replace the handset), op gang brengen (start, switch on, turn on), activeren (activate, start, swotch on, turn on), aanzetten tot (activate, start, swotch on, turn on), aanzetten (abet, activate, attach, fan, fire, fur, inspire, put onto, sew, sew on, sharpen, start, stimulate, stir up, switch on, swotch on, turn on, urge), aantrekken (attract, draw, draw tighter, tighten), aandoen (activate, affect, agitate, call at, cause, give rise to, move, switch, turn on), aan de praat krijgen (start, switch on), aan de praat krýgen (start, switch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

surmeti, ekfunkciigi (start, switch on, turn on), aktivigi (start, switch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

gera seg upp (attitudinize, pose, put on airs), frímerkja (prepay, put on stamps). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pukea yllensä (dress, get dressed), pukea ylleen, panna ylleen (päähänsä). (various references)

   

French

  

mettre (pull on, put, put away, put down, put in), activer (push along). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oandwaan, aktivearje (activate, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

German

  

anziehen (adjust, allure, apply, attract, be popular, boom, clothe, draw, draw up, dress, get on, hardness, jerk, make the first move, pull, pull in, pull tight, rise, screw up, set out, shove on, start moving, start pulling, tighten, to attract, to dress, to tog, tug, wear), veranstalten (arrange, fix up, hold, lay on, operate, organize, promote, stage, undertake), umlegen (apply, bring down, bump off, change, do in, floor, hit, knock down, put round, re-lay, reorder, screw, split the cost, tilt, transfer, turn down, turn over), umgehängt, aufsetzen (beach, bring down, come down, draft, ground, land, lay, lower, set up, sit up, touch down, touchdown), antun (activate, appeal to, cause, do for, do to, give rise to). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φορώ (get into, try on, wear). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

aktivizoj (activate, start, swotch on, turn on), aktivizohem (activate, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללבוש (clothe, cover, dress, tog, wear), לעטות (dress, mantle), לאזור (gird), לחבוש (bandage, dress, imprison, saddle, swathe), חבוש (imprisoned, prisoner, saddled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tulajdonít (to arrogate, to ascribe, to assign, to blame sg for sg, to impute, to put down, to refer), rátesz (impose, to impose, to put on, to superimpose, to superpose), mozgósít (activate, mobilize, start, swotch on, to mobilize, turn on), felvesz ruhát, felrak (set up, to apply, to lay on, to put on, to set up), aktivizál (activate, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

kveikja á (activate, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tampang (appearance of a person, show off), memberi (afford, impart, let, offer, vest), bubuh. (various references)

   

Italian

  

organizzare (arrange, organise, organize, plan, stage), mettere (cause, charge, get, install, lay down, locate, place, plant, pop, put, put down, put in, set, set up, situate, stand, take, to put, tuck, wear), indicare (be indicative of, betoken, denote, direct, indicate, mean, offers, point, point at, point out, recommend, register, say, show, signal, suggest), calzare (fit, shoe, wear), aumentare (add, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, compound, eke, enhance, escalate, gain, gather, grow, heighten, increase, increments, Mount, put up, raise, rise, step up, swell, to increase), applicare (apply, dab, enforce, practice, stick on), allestire (dress, equip, fit out, organise, prepare, stage), affettare (affect, carve, slice, slice up), accendere (burn, enkindle, illuminate, kindle, light, switch, switch on, turn, turn on). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(wear), (buy, call, catch, drink, eat, ride in, send for, take, wear). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), はい (actor, arrangement, ash, disposition, distribution, lung, wear, worship). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ginsh breag, cur er obbyr (set going), cur er bun (engender, engineer, establish, inaugurate, instigate, launch, open up, organize, stage, start), chionney (clench, cog, erection, fasten, grit, inflate, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, screw up, straighten, strain, tauten, tighten). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

aktivá (activate, advance, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utpay onay

   

Polish

  

nałożyć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vestir (accoutre, apparel, attire, clothe, costume, cover, don, dress, endue, enrobe, garb, habit, invest, robe, to dress, vesture, wear). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pune în scenã (bring out, stage), pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, cause, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay on, lay up, Mount, place, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put up, repose, set, sow, stick), se încålţa, juca (act, dance, enact, frolic, gamble, gambol, game, hazard, interpret, perform, play, present, produce, sport, stake, trifle, wanton), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down, place, position, put, put down, repose, seat, set, settle, situate, stack, stand, stick, Stow, subside), îmbrãca (accoutre, array, attire, do on, draw on, dress, enclothe, endue, equip, garb, habit, protect, vest, wear, wore). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

накинуть (add, throw on), наложить, надеть, надевать (dress up, get on), передвигать вперед. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

gnoigean (ball of rosin put on horns of vicious cattle), fallaid (dry meal put on cakes). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zadirkivati (badinage, chaff, josh, kid, needle, rag, rib, tease, twit), staviti (apply, bring up, input, insert, lay, park, place, pop, posit, put, set), obuti (shoe), obući (don, dress, enrobe, garb, robe, throw on, tog), nazuti, navući (draw, pull on, pull over, slip, throw on), nametnuti (force upon, intrude, levy, obtrude), namazati (anoint, liquor, oil, spread on), mazati se (smear, smudge), mazati (daub, liquor, lubricate, spread), izigravati (simulate, trick). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ponerse (attitudinize, become, begin, come over, commence, Don, draw on, dress, garb, get, get down, get dressed, get into, get on, go, go down, go in, gown, grow, jump on, live, pose, pull on, put forward, put on airs, put oneself, slip on, start, tag on, throw on, turn, turn about, turn around, up, wax, wear), poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impawn, impose, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ta på sig (Don, face up to, take, take on, undertake). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kandırma (bait, deception, dissuasion, inducement, inveiglement, spoof), üzerine bahse girmek (back), abartmak (aggrandize, balloon, carry things too far, carry to excess, color, colour, dramatize, draw the longbow, drow the long bow, embellish, embroider, enhance, exaggerate, fudge, glorify, heighten, lay it on, lay it on thickly, lay it on with a trowel, magnify, overcharge, overdo, overstate, pile it on, pile on the agony, put it on, put it on thick, shoot off one's mouth, slobber over, stretch), alaya alma (raillery), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), eklemek (add, adjoin, affix, annex, append, attach, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link, link up, piece, put in, put to, run in, slap on, splice, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), giyinmek (dress, groom, tog oneself up), çalıştırmak (actuate, drill, drive, employ, exercise, have smb. on the payroll, make smth. work, make things hum, operate, power, run, set to work, start, start up, switch on, task), ileri almak (advance, put forward, set forward), yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), sahnelemek (enact, grandstand, play to the grandstand, present, produce, put on the stage, show, stage), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), sayı yapmak (convert, knock up, score, score up), takılma (badinage, banter, being attached, hesitation, Josh, persiflage, quiz, raillery, teasing), takınmak (assume, strike, wear), tavır (address, air, aspect, attitude, behavior, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, face, form, manner, mien, port, pose, posture, presence, tone), yakmak (bite, burn, cauterize, fire, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, light up, scathe, scorch, sear, set on fire, turn on), yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), giymek (Don, draw on, dress, robe, slip on, wear). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

dakmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ставити на сцені (enact), удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), облудний (affected, captious, counterfeit, deceitful, fraudulent, illusive), надівати (clasp, get on, robe, settle, tog). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Put On

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

apta, aptari, aptas, aptasti, aptata, aptaverunt, aptavit, aptet, induam, induamini, induamur, induantur, induar, induaris, induebant, induebar, induebatur, induens, induentes, induentur, induere, induerent, induerentur, indueretur, indueris, induerit, induerunt, indues, induet, induetur, indueturque, indui, induimur, induit, induite, induta, induti, indutis, indutum, indutumque, indutus, indutusque, induunt, inice, iniciam, inicient, inicio inieci iniectum, iniecerunt, superindui. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Put On

LanguageDateSourceMark Chapter 7, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai elegen autoiV kalwV aqeteite thn entolhn tou qeou ina thn paradosin umwn thrhshte
Latin405VulgateEt dicebat illis bene irritum facitis praeceptum Dei ut traditionem vestram servetis
Old English990West SaxonÞa sæde he heom. wel ge on ydel dydengodes be-bod. þt ge eower lage healden.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd he seide to hem, Wel ye han maad the maundement of God voide, `to kepe youre tradicioun.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he sayde vnto them: well ye cast asyde the comaundement of God to mayntayne youre owne tradicios.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd he said to them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition,
Basic English1964OgdenAnd he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Put On

LanguageMark Chapter 7, Verse 9
CebuanoUg siya miingon kanila, "Maayo gayud ninyong pagkasalikway sa sugo sa Dios, aron inyong kabantayan ang inyong gikabilinbiling kalagdaan!
CroatianJoš im govoraše: "Lijepo! Dokidate Božju zapovijed da biste saèuvali svoju predaju.
DanishOg han sagde til dem: "Smukt ophæve I Guds Bud, for at I kunne holde eders Overlevering.
DutchEn Hij zeide tot hen: Gij doet zeker Gods gebod wel te niet, opdat gij uw inzettingen zoudt onderhouden.
FinnishJa hän sanoi heille: "Hyvin te kumoatte Jumalan käskyn noudattaaksenne omaa perinnäissääntöänne.
FrenchIl leur dit encore: Vous anéantissez fort bien le commandement de Dieu, pour garder votre tradition.
GaelicIs thuirt e riutha: Is math tha sibh a cur fainte Dhe air chul, gus ur beul-aithris fhein a chumail.
GermanUnd er sprach zu ihnen: Wohl fein habt ihr Gottes Gebote aufgehoben, auf daß ihr eure Aufsätze haltet.
HungarianÉs monda nékik: Az Isten parancsolatját szépen félre teszitek, azért, hogy a magatok rendelését tartsátok meg.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariLalu Yesus berkata lagi, "Kalian pandai sekali menolak perintah Allah supaya dapat mempertahankan ajaran sendiri.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kata-Nya lagi kepada mereka itu, "Sesungguhnya kamu menolakkan hukum Allah, supaya dapat kamu menurut adat istiadat orang tua-tuamu.
ItalianE aggiungeva: «Siete veramente abili nell'eludere il comandamento di Dio, per osservare la vostra tradizione.
MaoriA ka mea ia ki a ratou, Tena ra ta koutou hanga ki te whakakahore i te whakahau a te Atua, kia mau ai koutou ki ta koutou whakarerenga iho.
NorwegianOg han sa til dem: Det er riktig vakkert at I gjør Guds bud til intet for å holde eders vedtekt.
PortugueseDisse-lhes ainda: Bem sabeis rejeitar o mandamento de deus, para guardardes a vossa tradição.   
RumanianEl le -a mai zis: ,,Ayi desfiinyat frumos porunca lui Dumnezeu, ca sq yineyi datina voastrq.
ShuarTúrákrum Yus-Chichamka tsukintiaani ikiusurme Atumí uuntri chichame umirkatai tusarum.
SwahiliYesu akaendelea kusema, "Ninyi mnajua kuepa kwa ujanja sheria ya Mungu kwa ajili ya kufuata mapokeo yenu.
SwedishYtterligare sade han till dem: "Rätt så; I upphäven Guds bud för att hålla edra egna stadgar!
UmaNgkai ree, na'uli' tena-raka Yesus: "Koi' -le, pante lia-koi mpelelii' hawa' Alata'ala bona mpotuku' ada-ni moto.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Put On

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: punto, puton.

Words within the letters "n-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: pout, punt, unto, upon.

-2 letters: not, nut, opt, out, pot, pun, put, ton, top, tun, tup, upo.

-3 letters: no, nu, on, op, to, un, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: pluton, puntos, putons, unstop, uptorn, uptown.

 

+2 letters: opulent, opuntia, outplan, outspan, pantoum, plutons, pouting, putdown, spinout, sunspot, unstops, upfront, uptowns, utopian.

 

+3 letters: eruption, gumption, gunpoint, hornpout, nontrump, occupant, opuntias, outpaint, outplans, outpoint, outpreen, outpunch, outspans, outspend, outspent, pantoums, pleuston, plutonic, postburn, printout, pronotum, punition, punitory, pupation, putdowns, spinouts, spouting, sunspots, trapunto, trouping, unpoetic, unpolite, unposted, unpotted, unspoilt, upthrown, uptowner, utopians.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Bible Trace
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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