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HAVE ON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be dressed in
Example:
She was wearing yellow that day
Synonyms:
have on; wear
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
"Have on" entails doing...:
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Now she seemed to have on the Professor's mental or moral spectacles also, for the faults of these poor stories glared at her dreadfully and filled her with dismay.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We have on our side power of combination—a power denied to the vampire kind; we have sources of science; we are free to act and think; and the hours of the day and the night are ours equally.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Culturing could allow for screening of a large number of drugs to speed up identification of new treatments for Pneumocystis pneumonia, and potentially allow for genetic manipulation to modify individual genes and see what impact they have on organism growth and on its harmful impact to the host.
(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)
And what possible claim could the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“You shall make us a glass of your own punch, Mr. Micawber,” said I, “and forget whatever you have on your mind, in pleasanter reminiscences.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Tell me what business St. John and you have on hands.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you had a health difficulty this year, keep in mind that Jupiter is the planet of health, healing, and even miracles, the very best planet to have on your side when you are going through an ordeal.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But I bethought myself that I was in a boat, after all; and that a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Nonsense! and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mercury was retrograde last month, but went direct November 20, so you have an open road now to purchase a new car as well as any electronic items you may have on your list for yourself or gifts for friends or family.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
