English dictionary

pose

/p/oU/z/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

affected manners intended to impress others

noun.attribute

Synonyms airs

Source: WordNet 3.0
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

noun.attribute

Source: WordNet 3.0
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

noun.act

Synonyms affectation affectedness mannerism

Source: WordNet 3.0
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

introduce

verb.stative

Examples
This poses an interesting question.

Synonyms enclose inclose insert interpose introduce present put in stick in

Source: WordNet 3.0
assume a posture as for artistic purposes

verb.perception

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

Synonyms model posture sit

Source: WordNet 3.0
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

verb.communication

Examples
She posed as the Czar's daughter.

Synonyms impersonate personate

Source: WordNet 3.0
behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

verb.social

Synonyms posture

Source: WordNet 3.0
put into a certain place or abstract location

verb.contact

Synonyms lay place position put set

Source: WordNet 3.0
be a mystery or bewildering to

verb.cognition

Synonyms amaze baffle beat bewilder dumbfound flummox get gravel mystify nonplus perplex puzzle stick stupefy vex

Source: WordNet 3.0
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