pose

Speech parts

1. pose - Noun

2. pose - Adjective

3. pose - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

position present model posture set place show put front mannerism beat attitude sit stick puzzle
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

show move describe brief explain tell
Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

fox position move bear carry display

Hyponyms

park nestle marshal riddle set position

Phrases with the word

pose a threat pose a risk pose a threat to pose question pose a danger pose threats

Derivatives

posed posing

Anagrams

epos peso sope ESOP peos poes oesp

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

posavirus POSB posca pose a danger pose a hazard pose a risk