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pose

(p/oU/z )

noun (n)

affected manners intended to impress others(noun.attribute)

Synonym:
airs

source: wordnet30
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes(noun.attribute)

source: wordnet30
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display(noun.act)

Synonym:
affectation, affectedness, mannerism

source: wordnet30
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

verb (v)

introduce(verb.stative)

Example:
This poses an interesting question.

Synonym:
enclose, inclose, insert, interpose, introduce, present, put in, stick in

source: wordnet30
assume a posture as for artistic purposes(verb.perception)

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

Synonym:
model, posture, sit

source: wordnet30
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions(verb.communication)

Example:
She posed as the Czar's daughter.

Synonym:
impersonate, personate

source: wordnet30
behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others(verb.social)

Synonym:
posture

source: wordnet30
put into a certain place or abstract location(verb.contact)

Synonym:
lay, place, position, put, set

source: wordnet30
be a mystery or bewildering to(verb.cognition)

Synonym:
amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex

source: wordnet30
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

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