Definition of pose

noun (n)

• affected manners intended to impress others (noun.attribute)

  Synonym: airs
  

  source: wordnet30
• a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes (noun.attribute)

  source: wordnet30
• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display (noun.act)

  Synonym: affectation, affectedness, mannerism
  

  source: wordnet30
• A cold in the head; catarrh. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• introduce (verb.stative)

  Synonym: enclose, inclose, insert, interpose, introduce, present, put in, stick in
  

  Example:
  This poses an interesting question.
  

  source: wordnet30
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes (verb.perception)

  Synonym: model, posture, sit
  

  Example:
  We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often.
  

  source: wordnet30
• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions (verb.communication)

  Synonym: impersonate, personate
  

  Example:
  She posed as the Czar's daughter.
  

  source: wordnet30
• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others (verb.social)

  Synonym: posture
  

  source: wordnet30
• put into a certain place or abstract location (verb.contact)

  Synonym: lay, place, position, put, set
  

  source: wordnet30
• be a mystery or bewildering to (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
  

  source: wordnet30
• To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To interrogate; to question. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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