Dictionary Definition
pose
Noun
1 affected manners intended to impress others;
"don't put on airs with me" [syn: airs]
2 a posture assumed by models for photographic or
artistic purposes
Verb
1 introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
[syn: present]
2 assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We
don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn:
model, sit, posture]
3 pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes
with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
[syn: impersonate,
personate]
4 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" [syn: posture]
5 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]
6 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" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /pəʊz/, /p@Uz/
Verb
- set in place, arrange
- ask, set (a test or quiz)
- assume or maintain a pose
Translations
ask, set (a test or quiz)
- German: stellen
assume or maintain a pose
- German: posieren
Noun
- position, arrangement (especially of the human body)
- affectation
Derived terms
Translations
position, arrangement (especially of the human
body)
- German: Pose
affectation
French
Noun
pose fpose m
- extension (in telecommunications)
Verb form
pose- first-, third-person singular indicative preseent of poser
- first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of poser
- second-person singular imperative of poser
Italian
Pronunciation
póse, /ˈpose/, /"pose/
Verb form
poseNorwegian
Extensive Definition
"Pose" ("Pose" in Spanish),
is the third single by Daddy Yankee
released for promotion of the 2008 film
Talento
de Barrio.
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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