put sth on
(OPERATE)
A2 to make a device operate, or to cause a device to play something, such as a CD or DVD, by pressing a switch:
More examples
- I put the radio on while I prepared the meal.
- I put the oven on to heat up while I prepared the mixture.
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Electrical switches & connections
- connector
- cord
- cordless
- dimmer
- dimmer switch
- dip switch
- docking station
- electrical outlet
- ground
- jack
- plug (sth) in/plug (sth) into sth
- put sth out 1
- remote control
- shaver point
- socket
- switch
- switchboard
- travel plug
- wiring
- zapper
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(COVER BODY)
A2 to cover part of the body with clothes, shoes, make-up, or something similar:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting clothes on
- arrayed
- bundle
- bundle (sb) up
- doll
- doll yourself up
- dolled up
- dress
- fitting
- fling sth on/off
- get yourself/sb up
- glam
- glam (yourself) up
- put
- rig
- rig sb out
- slip
- slip into sth
- throw
- throw sth on
- try sth on
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(PRETEND)
to pretend to have a particular feeling or way of behaving that is not real or natural to you:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- quack
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(PRODUCE)
mainly UK to produce or provide something, especially for the good of other people or for a special purpose:
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- deliver
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- stake sb to sth
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
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(GET HEAVIER)
B1 If people or animals put weight on, they become heavier:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming bigger
- accrue
- augment
- billow
- bloat
- broaden
- engorged
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extend
- extension
- grow
- oak
- puff up
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- scaleable
- shoot
- stretch
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