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Definition of 'Pose'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) pose
to assume or hold a physical position or attitude, as for an artistic purpose:
to pose for a painter.

2.  pose
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.  pose
to behave in an affected manner.

4. (v.t.) pose
to place in a suitable position or attitude for a picture, tableau, etc:
to pose a group for a photograph.

5.  pose
to assert, state, or put forward; present:
That poses a problem.

6.  pose
to put or place.

7. (n.) pose
a bodily attitude or posture, esp. one assumed deliberately, as for an artistic purpose.

8.  pose
a mental attitude or posture, esp. one that is studied or assumed for effect; affectation:
His liberalism is merely a pose.

9.  pose
the act or period of posing, as for a picture.

10. (v.t.) pose
to embarrass or baffle, as by a difficult question or problem.

Etymology: (1520–30; aph. var. of obs. appose, var. of oppose , used in sense of L appōnere to put to)

Definition of 'Pose'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) airs, pose
affected manners intended to impress others
"don't put on airs with me"

2. (noun) pose
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

3. (verb) affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

4. (verb) present, pose
introduce
"This poses an interesting question"

5. (verb) model, pose, sit, posture
assume a posture as for artistic purposes
"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

6. (verb) pose, impersonate, personate
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
"She posed as the Czar's daughter"

7. (verb) pose, posture
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"

8. (verb) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
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"

9. (verb) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
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"

Definition of 'Pose'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) pose
to hold your body in a position in order to have your photograph taken, to be painted, etc.
to pose for the camera

2. pose
to present or create sth dangerous or difficult
criminals who no longer pose a threat to society; pesticides that may pose a health risk

3. pose
show off
Stop posing!

Definition of 'Pose'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Pose
standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast

2. (noun) Pose
a cold in the head; catarrh

3. (verb) Pose
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

4. (verb) Pose
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

5. (verb) Pose
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

6. (verb) Pose
to interrogate; to question

7. (verb) Pose
to question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand

Translation of 'Pose'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a position or attitude of the body a relaxed pose.
Afrikaans: postuur	Arabic: وِضْعِيَّه، وِقْفَه	Bulgarian: поза
Brazilian: postura	Czech: poloha, postoj	German: die Pose
Danish: stilling; positur	Greek: στάση του σώματος	Spanish: postura, pose
Estonian: hoiak	Farsi: طرز قرارگیری؛ ژست	Finnish: asento
French: pose	Hebrew: תְּנוּחָה	Hindi: मुद्रा
Croatian: stav	Hungarian: testtartás	Indonesian: sikap tubuh
Icelandic: staða, stelling	Italian: posa	Japanese: 姿勢
Korean: 어떤 자세	Lithuanian: laikysena, poza	Latvian: poza; stāvoklis
Malay: gaya	Dutch: houding	Norwegian: stilling, positur
Polish: poza	Persian: طرز قرارگیری؛ نشستن	Pashto: كيناستل، ځان تكيه كول
Portuguese: postura	Romanian: poziţie	Russian: поза
Slovak: poloha	Slovenian: drža	Serbian: poza
Swedish: pose, ställning	Thai: ท่าทาง	Turkish: poz, duruş
Taiwanese: 姿勢，姿態	Ukrainian: поза	Urdu: انداز
Vietnamese: tư thế	Chinese: 姿势，姿态
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