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单词 put sth on
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put sth on

phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put

(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:

Could you put the light on?
Do you mind if I put the television/some music on?
Don't forget to put the brake on.

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:

Put your shoes on - we're going out.
He put on his jacket.
She puts face cream on every night.

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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:

Why are you putting on that silly voice?
There's no need to put on that injured expression - you know you're in the wrong.
I can't tell whether he's really upset, or if he's just putting it on.

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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:

She put on a wonderful meal for us.
They've put on a late-night bus service for students.

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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:

I'd expected to put weight on when I gave up smoking, but I didn't.
He's put on ten pounds in the last month.

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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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