pose

(noun, verb)

noun

1. affected manners intended to impress others

Similar word(s): airs

Definition categories: attribute, affectedness

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

Definition categories: attribute, attitude, position, posture

3. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Similar word(s): affectation, affectedness, mannerism

Definition categories: act, feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation

Sentences with pose as a noun:

- Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.

verb

1. introduce

- This poses an interesting question

Similar word(s): present

Definition categories: stative, be, comprise, constitute, represent

2. assume a posture as for artistic purposes

- We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often

Similar word(s): model, posture, sit

Definition categories: perception, display, exhibit, expose

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

- She posed as the Czar's daughter

Similar word(s): impersonate, personate

Definition categories: communication, betray, deceive

4. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

Similar word(s): posture

Definition categories: social, acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport

5. put into a certain place or abstract location

Similar word(s): lay, place, position, put, set

Definition categories: contact, displace, move

6. be a mystery or bewildering to

Similar word(s): amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex

Definition categories: cognition, bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw

Sentences with pose as a verb:

- To pose a model for a picture.