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verb-intransitive. To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait.

verb-intransitive. To affect a particular mental attitude.

verb-intransitive. To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is.

v. To place (a model, for example) in a specific position.

v. To set forth in words; propound: pose a question.

v. To put forward; present: pose a threat. See Synonyms at propose.

n. A bodily attitude or position, especially one assumed for an artist or a photographer. See Synonyms at posture.

n. A studied attitude assumed for effect. See Synonyms at affectation.

v. To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.

v. set in place, arrange

v. ask, set (a test or quiz)

v. to constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc...)

v. assume or maintain a pose

v. To interrogate; to question.

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

n. position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body)

n. affectation

v. To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.

v. To perplex or confuse (someone).

n. common cold, head cold

n. A cold in the head; catarrh.

n. 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

v. 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

verb-intransitive. 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.

v. To interrogate; to question.

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

n. A cold in the head; catarrh.

To put; place; set.

To put by way of supposition or hypothesis; suppose.

To lay down as a proposition; state; posit.

To place in suitable or becoming position or posture; cause to assume a suitable or effective attitude: as, to pose a person for a portrait.

To bear; conduct.

To make a supposition; put the case.

To assume a particular attitude or rôle; endeavor to appear or be regarded (as something else); attitudinize, literally or figuratively: as, to pose as a model; to pose as a martyr.

n. Attitude or position, whether taken naturally or assumed for effect: as, the pose of an actor; especially, the attitude in which any character is represented artistically; the position, whether of the whole person or of an individual member of the body: as, the pose of a statue; the pose of the head.

n. A deposit; a secret hoard.

n. Synonyms Position, Attitude, etc. See posture.

To put questions to; interrogate closely; question; examine.

To puzzle, nonplus, or embarrass by a difficult question.

At dominoes, to set (the first domino).

n. affected manners intended to impress others

n. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

v. put into a certain place or abstract location

v. be a mystery or bewildering to

n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

v. introduce

v. assume a posture as for artistic purposes

v. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

v. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

"Liverpool Street, you pose -- yes, _pose_, Jack -- as the urbane man,"

posed    poses    posess    posesses    posing   

affectedness    position    attitude    posture    constitute    makeup    comprise    represent    be   

interchangeably posed   

suppose    dispose    impose    superpose   

posed    posing    poser    posable   

catarrh    attitudinize    interrogate    question    place    posture    posturize    set    peacock    nonplus   

Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows   

posture    gesture    mien    attitude    stance    shrug    poise    stride    affectation    gait