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"
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
Definitions of 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
