Pose \Pose\, n. [F. pose, fr. poser. See Pose, v. t.]
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.
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Posing.] [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause,
in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. ?, fr.
? to make to cease, prob. akin to E. few. In compounds, this
word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place, the
substitution in French having been probably due to confusion
of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere. See Few,
and cf. Appose, Dispose, Oppose, Pause, Repose,
Position.]
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.
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Pos'e \Po`s['e]"\, a. [F., placed, posed.] (Her.)
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of
the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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Pose \Pose\, n. [AS. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. W. pas a
cough, Skr. k[=a]s to cough, and E. wheeze.]
A cold in the head; catarrh. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Pose \Pose\, v. i.
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.
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He . . . posed before her as a hero. --Thackeray.
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d
Appose, Oppose.]
1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] "She . . . posed him
and sifted him." --Bacon.
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2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by
questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
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A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to
pose and puzzle him. --Barrow.
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pose
n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
airs with me" [syn: airs]
2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic
purposes
3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation,
mannerism, affectedness]
v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present]
2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know
the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model,
sit, posture]
3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: impersonate,
personate]
4: 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" [syn: posture]
5: 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" [syn: put, set, place, position, lay]
6: 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" [syn: perplex, vex, stick,
get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder,
flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
WordNet (r) 2.0
224 Moby Thesaurus words for "pose":
act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advance,
affectation, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, arrange, ask,
assert, attitude, attitudinarianism, attitudinize, attitudinizing,
bearing, beck, beckon, befog, behavior, behavior pattern,
behavioral norm, behavioral science, bewilder, bluff, bluffing,
body language, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, cap,
carriage, charade, cheating, chironomy, color, coloring,
commend to attention, comportment, conduct, confound, confuse,
culture pattern, custom, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
deception, delusion, demeanor, deportment, disguise, display,
dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dog, doing, doings,
dumb show, extend, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air,
false front, false show, falsity, feign, feigning, feint, folkway,
four-flushing, fraud, front, gesticulation, gesture,
gesture language, gestures, gilt, give, gloss, goings-on,
grandstand, guise, hand signal, hold out, humbug, humbuggery,
imitate, impersonate, imposture, introduce, kinesics, launch, lay,
lay before, lay down, lugs, maintien, make a motion, manner,
mannerism, manners, masquerade, masquerade as, meretriciousness,
method, methodology, methods, mien, mimic, model, modus vivendi,
moot, motion, motions, move, movement, movements, moves,
observable behavior, offer a resolution, open up, ostentation,
outward show, pantomime, park, pass as, pass for, pass off,
pattern, peacock, peacockery, peacockishness, perplex, place,
playacting, poise, port, portray, pose as, pose for effect, posing,
posit, position, post, postulate, posture, posturing, practice,
praxis, predicate, prefer, presence, present, pretend,
pretend to be, pretense, pretension, pretext, prettiness,
procedure, proceeding, profess, proffer, propose, proposition,
propound, purport, put, put forth, put forward, put it to,
put on airs, puzzle, query, question, recommend, represent,
representation, seat, seeming, semblance, set, set before,
set forth, set up, sham, show, show off, shrug, sign language,
simulacrum, simulation, sit, social science, speciousness, stance,
start, station, stick, strike a pose, strike an attitude, strut,
stumble, style, submit, suggest, tactics, tender, tone, varnish,
way, way of life, ways, window dressing
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