Search Dictionary:  

pose

Pronunciation:  powz

 Sponsored Links: 
 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  2. [n]  affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
  3. [v]  be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"
  4. [v]  pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
  5. [v]  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"
  6. [v]  as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  7. [v]  behave affectedly in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
  8. [v]  introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
 
 Synonyms: affectation, airs, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, impersonate, lay, mannerism, model, mystify, nonplus, perplex, personate, place, position, posture, present, put, puzzle, set, sit, stupefy, vex
 
 See Also: acquit, affectedness, apply, appose, arrange, array, assemble, attitude, attitudinise, attitudinize, barrel, be, bear, bed, bedevil, befuddle, behave, betray, bottle, bring down, bucket, butt, carry, clap, cock, coffin, communicate, comport, comprise, conduct, confound, confuse, constitute, cram, debark, deceive, defer, deport, deposit, discharge, discombobulate, disembark, displace, display, docket, drop, elude, ensconce, ensnare, entrap, erect, escape, exhibit, expose, feigning, figure out, fix, fox, frame, fuddle, gaol, glycerolise, glycerolize, ground, hold over, imbricate, immure, imprison, incarcerate, instal, install, intersperse, jail, jar, jug, juxtapose, knock back, ladle, lag, land, lay out, lay over, lead astray, lean, lick, load, lose, make up, marshal, masquerade, middle, mislay, misplace, mix up, move, parallelize, park, pass, pass on, perch, piece, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, pitch, place down, place upright, plant, poise, posit, post, postpone, postpose, prepose, pretence, pretending, pretense, prorogue, put across, put away, put back, put behind bars, put down, put forward, put in, put off, put on, put over, put together, put up, puzzle out, puzzle over, rack up, raise, ramp, range, rear, recess, remand, remit, replace, repose, reposition, represent, rest, riddle, rig, seat, seed, set back, set down, set out, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, sign, simulation, siphon, sit, sit down, situate, solve, sough, sow, space, stagger, stand, stand up, stick, stratify, stump, superimpose, superpose, table, tack, tack together, tee, tee up, throw, throw, trench, underlay, unload, upend, work, work out

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.


  2. \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.


  3. \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.


  4. \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.

      He . . . posed before her as a hero.     --Thackeray.


  5. \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.

2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by
   questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

         A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to
         pose and puzzle him.                  --Barrow.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

<language A query language written in 1967.

["POSE: A Language for Posing Problems to Computers", S. Schlesinger et al, CACM 10:279-285, May 1967].

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2009 HYPERDICTIONARY.COM HYPERDICTIONARY.COM