Posenoun 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
airs with me" [syn:
airs]
2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic
purposes
3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn:
affectation,
mannerism,
affectedness]
verb 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn:
present]
2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know
the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn:
model,
sit,
posture]
3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn:
impersonate,
personate]
4: 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" [syn:
posture]
5: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your
things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the
scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a
certain point" [syn:
put,
set,
place,
position,
lay]
6: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn:
perplex,
vex,
stick,
get,
puzzle,
mystify,
baffle,
beat,
bewilder,
flummox,
stupefy,
nonplus,
gravel,
amaze,
dumbfound]
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