pose 1 (p z)v. posed, pos·ing, pos·es v.intr. 1. To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait. 2. To affect a particular mental attitude. 3. To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is. v.tr. 1. To place (a model, for example) in a specific position. 2. To set forth in words; propound: pose a question. 3. To put forward; present: pose a threat. See Synonyms at propose. n. 1. A bodily attitude or position, especially one assumed for an artist or a photographer. See Synonyms at posture. 2. A studied attitude assumed for effect. See Synonyms at affectation. [Middle English posen, to place, from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin *paus  re, from Late Latin pausre, to rest, from Latin pausa, pause; see pause.]pos  a·ble adj. |
| pose 2 (pz) tr.v. posed, pos·ing, pos·es To puzzle, confuse, or baffle. [Short for appose, to examine closely (from Middle English apposen, alteration of opposen; see oppose) and from French poser, to assume (obsolete) (from Old French; see pose1).] |
pose1
vb
1. to assume or cause to assume a physical attitude, as for a photograph or painting
2. (intr; often foll by as) to pretend to be or present oneself (as something one is not)
3. (intr) to affect an attitude or play a part in order to impress others
4. (tr) to put forward, ask, or assert to pose a question
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a physical attitude, esp one deliberately adopted for or represented by an artist or photographer
2. a mode of behaviour that is adopted for effect
[from Old French poser to set in place, from Late Latin pausāre to cease, put down (influenced by Latin pōnere to place)]
pose2
vb (tr)
1. Rare to puzzle or baffle
2. Archaic to question closely
[from obsolete appose, from Latin appōnere to put to, set against; see oppose]
Pose a hoard or secret store.
Examples: pose of English nobles (coins), 1549; of silver and treasure, 1816; of treasure, 1637.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  pose - affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"affectedness - the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) |
| 2. | pose - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | |
| 3. | pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display pretending, pretense, feigning, simulation, pretence - the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" attitude - a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude" radical chic - an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them | |
| Verb | 1. | pose - introduce; "This poses an interesting question" constitute, make up, comprise, be, represent - form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" |
| 2. | pose - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" display, exhibit, expose - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" ramp - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction" | |
| 3. | pose - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" masquerade - pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as an expert on the internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty" deceive, lead astray, betray - cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" | |
| 4. | pose - 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" deport, comport, acquit, behave, conduct, bear, carry - behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" attitudinise, attitudinize - assume certain affected attitudes | |
| 5. | pose - 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" docket - place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried" cock - set the trigger of a firearm back for firing postpose - place after another constituent in the sentence; "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them" prepose - place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them" step - place (a ship's mast) in its step put back, replace - put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" stratify - form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses" plant - place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment" intersperse - place at intervals in or among; "intersperse exclamation marks in the text" pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" superpose - place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide park - place temporarily; "park the car in the yard"; "park the children with the in-laws"; "park your bag in this locker" dispose - place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed" emplace - put into place or position; "the box with the ancestors' ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar" emplace - provide a new emplacement for guns ship - place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel" underlay - put (something) under or beneath; "They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper" trench - set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables" pigeonhole - place into a small compartment shelve - place on a shelf; "shelve books" jar - place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam" repose - to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King" sign - place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed" middle - put in the middle parallelize - place parallel to one another butt - place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints" recess - put into a recess; "recess lights" reposition - place into another position throw, thrust - place or put with great energy; "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar" rack up - place in a rack; "rack pool balls" coffin - place into a coffin; "her body was coffined" bed - put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" appose - place side by side or in close proximity place down, put down, set down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here" misplace - place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers" juxtapose - place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors" set down - put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley" bottle - put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water" | |
| 6. |  pose - 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"bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, baffle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, amaze, gravel, vex, stick, beat, get befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, bedevil, fuddle, throw - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" riddle - set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" |
pose
verb
1. present, cause, produce, create, lead to, result in, constitute, give rise to His ill health poses serious problems.
2. ask, state, advance, put, set, submit, put forward, posit, propound When I posed the question `Why?', he merely shrugged.
3. position yourself, sit, model, strike a pose, arrange yourself The six foreign ministers posed for photographs.
4. put on airs, affect, posture, show off (informal), showboat, strike an attitude, attitudinize He criticized them for posing pretentiously.
noun
1. posture, position, bearing, attitude, stance, mien (literary) We have had several sittings in various poses.
2. act, role, façade, air, front, posturing, pretence, masquerade, mannerism, affectation, attitudinizing In many writers modesty is a pose, but in him it seems to be genuine.
pose as something or someone impersonate, pretend to be, sham, feign, profess to be, masquerade as, pass yourself off as The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
Translations
pose [pəʊz]
A. N
B. VT
1. (= position) → hacer posar
he posed the model in the position he wanted → hizo que la modelo posara como él quería
he posed the model in the position he wanted → hizo que la modelo posara como él quería
2. [+ problem, question, difficulty] → plantear; [+ threat] → representar, encerrar
pose [ˈpəʊz]
vi → poser
to pose for sth [+ painting, photograph] → poser pour qch
to pose for sth [+ painting, photograph] → poser pour qch
(= pretend) to pose as sb → se faire passer pour qn
pose
n
(= position, attitude) → Haltung f; (of model, also pej) → Pose f, → Haltung f; to take up a pose (model) → eine Pose or Haltung einnehmen; to hold a pose → eine Pose or Haltung beibehalten; to strike a (dramatic) pose → sich (dramatisch) in Positur werfen; she’s always striking poses → sie benimmt sich immer so theatralisch
vt
(= position) model → aufstellen
(= put forward) question, problem → vortragen; the question posed by his speech → die in seiner Rede aufgeworfene Frage
(= formulate) question, problem → formulieren
(= constitute, present) difficulties, problem → aufwerfen; threat → darstellen; this could pose a health risk → das könnte eine Gesundheitsgefährdung darstellen
pose [pəʊz]
pose [pəʊz]
2. vt
a. (person) → mettere in posa
3. vi (for artist, also) (fig) (attitudinize) → posare; (pretend to be) to pose as → atteggiarsi a, posare a
to pose as a policeman → farsi passare per un poliziotto
to pose as a policeman → farsi passare per un poliziotto
pose [pəʊz]
2. vt
a. (person) → mettere in posa
3. vi (for artist, also) (fig) (attitudinize) → posare; (pretend to be) to pose as → atteggiarsi a, posare a
to pose as a policeman → farsi passare per un poliziotto
to pose as a policeman → farsi passare per un poliziotto
n pose [pəuz]
1 a position or attitude of the body a relaxed pose. postuur وِضْعِيَّه، وِقْفَه поза poloha, postoj stilling; positur die Pose στάση του σώματος postura, pose hoiak طرز قرارگیری؛ ژست asento pose תְּנוּחָה मुद्रा stav testtartás sikap tubuh staða, stelling posa 姿勢 어떤 자세 laikysena, poza poza; stāvoklis gaya houding stilling, positur poza postura poziţie поза poloha drža poza pose, ställning ท่าทาง poz, duruş 姿勢，姿態 поза انداز tư thế 姿势，姿态
2 a false manner or way of behaving assumed in order to impress others; a pretence His indignation was only a pose. blufspul, verbluffing تَظاهُر، وَضْع مُتَكَلَّف преструвка póza facade; påtagethed die Verstellung υποκριτική συμπεριφορά, πόζα pose, afectación tehtud hoiak, poos تظاهر teeskentely affectation הַעֲמָדַת פָּנִים ढोंग आडम्बर držanje,nenaravo držanje póz(olás) kepura-puraan uppgerð posa, affettazione 見せかけ 억지로 꾸민 태도 poza poza dibuat-buat pose påtatt spill poza pose poză поза, притворство póza poza poziranje pose การวางท่า poz, sahte tavır 裝腔作勢 поза دکھاوا điệu bộ giả tạo 装腔作势
v
1 to position oneself eg for a photograph to be taken She posed in the doorway. plaas, posisioneer, modelleer يَجْلِس إلى رَسّام، يَقِف لاتخاذ صورَه позирам zaujmout pozici posere; stille sig op sich in Positur stellen ποζάρω posar poseerima قرار گرفتن poseerata poser לְדַגמֵן, לְהִתייָצֵב לְצִילוּם प्रस्तुत करना postaviti u neki stav modellt áll v. ül berpose stilla sér upp mettersi in posa ポーズをとる 포즈를 취하다 pozuoti pozēt menggayakan poseren posere, stå modell pozować posar a poza позировать zaujať postoj; pózovať pozirati pozirati posera วางท่า poz vermek 擺好姿勢 ставати в позу, позувати تصوير کھنچوانے کے ليے خاص انداز اختيار کرنا tạo dáng 摆好姿势
2 (withas) to pretend to be He posed as a doctor. voorgee om te wees يَتَظاهَر، يَدَّعي أنه представям се за vydávat se (za) udgive sig for sich ausgeben παριστάνω hacerse pasar por teesklema (kedagi) وانمود کردن tekeytyä joksikin se faire passer pour לְהִתחָזוֹת प्रस्तुत करना, सामने रखना pretvarati se színlel berpura-pura þykjast vera farsi passare per 見せかける (~)인 체하다 apsimesti, dėtis uzdoties (par kādu) menyamar zich uitgeven voor utgi seg for, late som om udawać fazer-se passar por a face pe выдавать себя за vydávať sa (za) izdajati se za pretvarati se ge sig ut för att vara เสแสร้ง kendine... süsü vermek 假裝 видавати себе за مصنوعي انداز اختيار کرنا làm ra vẻ 假装
pose2
v pose [pəuz]
to set or offer (a question or problem) for answering or solving He posed a difficult question; This poses a problem. vra, veroorsaak يَطْرَحُ سؤالا поставям položit, nastolit stille; udgøre aufwerfen θέτω (πρόβλημα, ερώτηση) plantear, presentar esitama, tekitama مطرح کردن ottaa esiin poser לְהַעֲלוֹת चकरा देना, घबरा देना postaviti nekomu pitanje feltesz, felvet (kérdést) mengajukan leggja fyrir porre 出す 내다 pateikti, iškelti izvirzīt/uzdot (jautājumu) menimbulkan stellen sette fram, reise postawić, stanowić apresentar a pune предлагать, ставить položiť, nastoliť postaviti postaviti lägga fram, utgöra, innebära ทำให้เกิด yaratmak, çıkarmak 提出 формулювати; ставити سوال اٹھانا đưa ra câu hỏi 提出
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