POSE
\pˈə͡ʊz], \pˈəʊz], \p_ˈəʊ_z]\
Definitions of POSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
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affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
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pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
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introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
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a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
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assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
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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"
By Princeton University
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a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
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affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
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pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
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introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
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behave affectedly in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A cold in the head; catarrh.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To interrogate; to question.
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To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
By Oddity Software
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Attitude or position; often, a manner put on for the sake of effect.
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To assume an attitude; to put on a certain manner for effect.
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To place in an attitude; to puzzle or perplex.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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To assume an attitude.
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Said of a lion or beast, standing still with all its feet on the ground.
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Position; posture; attitude.
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To puzzle; to bring to a stand.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To put into or take an attitude, as for a portrait.
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To state as a proposition.
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An attitude or posture to be copied in a portrait or statue.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To put or bring to a stand by a question or by questions; to puzzle; to perplex by asking questions difficult to answer.
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In paint, and sculp., the attitude which the character represented is considered to have taken naturally; a position formally assumed for the sake of effect.
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In her., standing still with all his feet on the ground, as the attitude of a lion or other beast.
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An old medical term for a stuffing in the head from cold; a catarrh. Note.-Hooper suggests that this may be thereal origin of pose, to puzzle, meaning in the firstinstance "to stupefy.".
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
