1. pose - Noun
2. pose - Adjective
3. pose - Verb
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
A cold in the head; catarrh.
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.
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.
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.
To interrogate; to question.
To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Margaret Atwood
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. Oscar Wilde
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. Karl Popper
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance. Christopher Hitchens
Having no ointment and box why do you pose as hairdresser. Hungarian Proverb
A man can pose as a wise when searching for wisdom, but if he believes to have find it, is a fool. Persian Proverb