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pose 1
(pōz)v. posed, pos·ing, pos·es
v.tr.
1. To set forth in words for consideration; propound: pose a question. See Synonyms at propose.
2. To present or constitute: a crisis that posed a threat to the country's stability.
3. To place (a model, for example) in a specific position.
v.intr.
1. To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait.
2. To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is: conmen posing as police officers.
n.
1.
a. A bodily attitude or position, such as one assumed for an artist or a photographer. See Synonyms at posture.
b. In yoga, an asana.
2. A studied or artificial manner or attitude, often assumed in an attempt to impress or deceive others. See Synonyms at affectation.
[Middle English posen, to place, from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin *pausāre, from Late Latin pausāre, to rest, from Latin pausa, pause; see pause.]
pos′a·ble adj.
pose 2
(pōz)tr.v. posed, pos·ing, pos·es Archaic
To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.
[Short for appose, to examine closely (from Middle English apposen, alteration of opposen; see oppose) and from French poser, to assume (obsolete) (from Old French; see pose1).]
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pose
(pəʊz)vb
1. to assume or cause to assume a physical attitude, as for a photograph or painting
2. (often foll by: as) to pretend to be or present oneself (as something one is not)
3. (intr) to affect an attitude or play a part in order to impress others
4. (tr) to put forward, ask, or assert: to pose a question.
n
5. (Art Terms) a physical attitude, esp one deliberately adopted for or represented by an artist or photographer
6. a mode of behaviour that is adopted for effect
[C14: from Old French poser to set in place, from Late Latin pausāre to cease, put down (influenced by Latin pōnere to place)]
pose
(pəʊz)vb (tr)
1. rare to puzzle or baffle
2. archaic to question closely
[C16: from obsolete appose, from Latin appōnere to put to, set against; see oppose]
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pose1
(poʊz)v. posed, pos•ing,
n. v.i.
1. to assume or hold a physical position or attitude, as for an artistic purpose: to pose for a painter.
2. to pretend to be what one is not, esp. in order to impress or deceive; assume a false character: to pose as a police officer.
3. to behave in an affected manner.
v.t. 4. to place in a suitable position or attitude for a picture, tableau, etc: to pose a group for a photograph.
5. to assert, state, or put forward; present: That poses a problem.
6. to put or place.
n. 7. a bodily attitude or posture, esp. one assumed deliberately, as for an artistic purpose.
8. a mental attitude or posture, esp. one that is studied or assumed for effect; affectation: His liberalism is merely a pose.
9. the act or period of posing, as for a picture.
[1325–75; Middle English < Middle French poser < Late Latin pausāre to stop, cease, rest, derivative of Latin pausa pause]
pose2
(poʊz)v.t. posed, pos•ing.
to embarrass or baffle, as by a difficult question or problem.
[1520–30; aph. variant of obsolete appose, variant of oppose, used in sense of Latin appōnere to put to]
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Pose
a hoard or secret store.Examples: pose of English nobles (coins), 1549; of silver and treasure, 1816; of treasure, 1637.
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pose
Past participle: posed
Gerund: posing
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| Noun | 1. |  pose - affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"affectedness - the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) |
| 2. | pose - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | |
| 3. |  pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated displaypretending, pretense, feigning, simulation, pretence - the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" attitude - a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude" radical chic - an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them | |
| Verb | 1. | pose - introduce; "This poses an interesting question" constitute, make up, comprise, be, represent - form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" |
| 2. | pose - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" display, exhibit, expose - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" ramp - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction" | |
| 3. | pose - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" masquerade - pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as an expert on the internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty" deceive, lead astray, betray - cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" | |
| 4. | pose - behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" deport, comport, acquit, behave, conduct, bear, carry - behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" attitudinise, attitudinize - assume certain affected attitudes | |
| 5. | pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" docket - place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried" postpose - place after another constituent in the sentence; "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them" prepose - place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them" step - place (a ship's mast) in its step put back, replace - put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" stratify - form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses" plant - place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment" intersperse - place at intervals in or among; "intersperse exclamation marks in the text" pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" superpose - place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide park - place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker" dispose - place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed" emplace - put into place or position; "the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar" emplace - provide a new emplacement for guns ship - place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel" underlay - put (something) under or beneath; "They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper" trench - set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables" pigeonhole - place into a small compartment shelve - place on a shelf; "shelve books" jar - place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam" repose - to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King" sign - place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed" middle - put in the middle parallelize - place parallel to one another recess - put into a recess; "recess lights" reposition - place into another position throw, thrust - place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar" rack up - place in a rack; "rack pool balls" coffin - place into a coffin; "her body was coffined" bed - put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" appose - place side by side or in close proximity place down, put down, set down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here" misplace - place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers" juxtapose - place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors" set down - put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley" bottle - put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water" bucket - put into a bucket barrel - put in barrels ground - place or put on the ground mislay, misplace, lose - place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" upend - set, turn, or stand on end; "upend the box and empty the contents" seat - place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair" | |
| 6. |  pose - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, baffle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, amaze, gravel, vex, stick, beat, get befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, bedevil, fuddle, throw - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" riddle - set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" |
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pose
verb
1. present, cause, produce, create, lead to, result in, constitute, give rise to His ill health poses serious problems.
2. ask, state, advance, put, set, submit, put forward, posit, propound When I posed the question `Why?', he merely shrugged.
3. position yourself, sit, model, strike a pose, arrange yourself The six foreign ministers posed for photographs.
4. put on airs, affect, posture, show off (informal), showboat, strike an attitude, attitudinize He criticized them for posing pretentiously.
noun
1. posture, position, bearing, attitude, stance, mien (literary) We have had several sittings in various poses.
2. act, role, façade, air, front, posturing, pretence, masquerade, mannerism, affectation, attitudinizing In many writers modesty is a pose, but in him it seems to be genuine.
pose as something or someone impersonate, pretend to be, sham, feign, profess to be, masquerade as, pass yourself off as The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
pose
verb2. To assume an exaggerated or unnatural attitude or pose:
Idiom: strike an attitude.
3. To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is:
Idiom: pass oneself off as.
4. To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of:
5. To state, as an idea, for consideration:
3. Artificial behavior adopted to impress others:
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pose
[pəʊz]A. N
B. VT
1. (= position) → hacer posar
he posed the model in the position he wanted → hizo que la modelo posara como él quería
he posed the model in the position he wanted → hizo que la modelo posara como él quería
2. [+ problem, question, difficulty] → plantear; [+ threat] → representar, encerrar
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pose1
(pəuz) noun2. a false manner or way of behaving assumed in order to impress others; a pretence. His indignation was only a pose.pose, afectación
verb1. to position oneself eg for a photograph to be taken. She posed in the doorway.posar
2. (with as) to pretend to be. He posed as a doctor.hacerse pasar por
pose2
(pəuz) verb to set or offer (a question or problem) for answering or solving. He posed a difficult question; This poses a problem.plantear, presentar
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