Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausare, from Late Latin, to stop, rest, pause, from Latin pausa pause
Pronunciation : pOz
Function : verb
Date : 14th century
1. position, posture, stance. stand in a posture; raise, put forth (a question); impersonate; display, present. pose\pose\ , n. [as. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. w. pas a cough, skr. kās to cough, and e. wheeze.] a cold in the head; catarrh. [obs.]pose \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.pose \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.pose \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.pose \pose\, v. t. [shortened from appose, for oppose. see:
2d appose, oppose.].
2. to interrogate; to question. [obs.] "she posed him and sifted him.".
3. 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.pose n.
4. affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" [syn: airs].
5. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation, mannerism] v 1: introduce; "this poses an interesting question" [syn: present] 2: as for artistic purposes; "we don't know the woman who posed for leonardo so often" [syn: model, sit, posture].
6. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "she posed as the czar's daughter" [syn: impersonate, personate].
7. behave affectedly in order to impress others; "don't pay any attention to hime is always posing to impress his peers!".
8. 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" [syn: put, set, place, position, lay].
9. A cold in the head; catarrh.
10. 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.
11. To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
12. 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.
13. To interrogate; to question.
14. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" 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".
15. 1. If something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger. This could pose a threat to jobs in the coal industry His ill health poses serious problems for the future.
16. If you pose a question, you ask it. If you pose an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue. When I finally posed the question, `Why?' he merely shrugged. the moral issues posed by new technologies.
17. If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people. The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
18. If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you. Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs.
19. disapproval You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people. He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.
20. A pose is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted. We have had several preliminary sittings in various poses. To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.
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