HAVE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does have on mean? 

• HAVE ON (verb)
  The verb HAVE ON has 1 sense:

1. be dressed in

  Familiarity information: HAVE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAVE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be dressed in

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

have on; wear

Context example:

She was wearing yellow that day

"Have on" entails doing...:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Full moons often bring conclusions, closure, an end to a chapter, but new moon solar eclipses, like what you have on December 25/26, are known to set off new beginnings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The party then gathered round the fire to hear Lady Catherine determine what weather they were to have on the morrow.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By using computer models, they can estimate the effect these particles have on regional climate.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This will help astronomers understand the underlying force of the blast, and what impact such events could have on star formation across the galaxy.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There is no Black Dog here, said the doctor, except what you have on your own back.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This work reveals the unexplored and long-term impacts some nanoparticles have on the living organisms around us.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

Life without Dora's love was not a thing to have on any terms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What a bright spot of colour you have on each cheek! and how strangely your eyes glitter!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I would not have the shadow of a coolness arise, he repeated, his voice sinking a little, between the two dearest objects I have on earth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The new technique shows the dramatic influence that hazy skies could have on our ability to learn about these alien worlds orbiting distant stars.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)