To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
To perform for an audience.
To organize a performance for an audience.
To fool, kid, deceive.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
To bet on.
To play (a recording).
To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
To come open by having its buttons unfastened.