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Pose   /poʊz/   Listen
Pose

verb
(past & past part. posed; pres. part. posing)
1.
Introduce.  Synonym: present.
2.
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.  Synonyms: model, posture, sit.
3.
Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.  Synonyms: impersonate, personate.
4.
Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.  Synonym: posture.  "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
5.
Put into a certain place or abstract location.  Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set.  "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"
6.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"
noun
1.
Affected manners intended to impress others.  Synonym: airs.
2.
A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes.
3.
A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.  Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism.



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"Pose" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind both Tom 'n' me's pretty bad. I s'pose we couldn't 'a 'spected to stay here in peace forever; but the blow's come suddin-like, ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... these ends these clever Hymenoptera employ cunning, and endeavour to pose as workers. They place themselves at the approaches to a hive, and when a worker arrives laden with its burden they advance towards it, caress it with their antennae, take possession of its pollen as if to relieve it of a burden, and then fly away ...
— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay
... you asked me to bring mother's trunks with me," Joan told him. "Aranyi has asked me to pose ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... "S'pose he does!" said the young man addressed as Bobby—otherwise Robert Dickenson, second lieutenant in Her Majesty's —th Mounted Infantry. "Well, that's a cool way of talking. Suppose he does! Why, suppose one of the great magnified ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... Wallie, but he never reverted to the day she had told him of her engagement. Mother and son, she began to feel that only with them could she be herself. For the village, her chin high as Nina had said. At home, assumed cheerfulness. Only at the house on the hill could she drop her pose. ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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