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 keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
To stay back.
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.