pose \pose\, n. f. pose, fr. poser. see pose, v. t.
   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.
   1913 webster
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pose 

pose \pose\, v. t. imp.  p. p. posed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   posing. f. poser to place, to put, l. pausare to pause,
   in ll. also, to place, put, fr. l. pausa a pause, gr. ?, fr.
   ? to make to cease, prob. akin to e. few. in compounds, this
   word appears corresponding to l. ponere to put, place, the
   substitution in french having been probably due to confusion
   of this word with l. positio position, fr. ponere. see few,
   and cf. appose, dispose, oppose, pause, repose,
   position.
   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.
   1913 webster
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posed posing few appose dispose oppose 
pause repose position 

pos'e \po`s'e"\, a. f., placed, posed. her.
   standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of
   the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
   1913 webster

pose \pose\, n. as. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. w. pas a
   cough, skr. k=as to cough, and e. wheeze.
   a cold in the head; catarrh. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

pose \pose\, v. i.
   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.
   1913 webster

         he . . . posed before her as a hero.     --thackeray.
   1913 webster

pose \pose\, v. t. shortened from appose, for oppose. see 2d
   appose, oppose.
   1. to interrogate; to question. obs. "she . . . posed him
      and sifted him." --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. to question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by
      questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
      1913 webster

            a question wherewith a learned pharisee thought to
            pose and puzzle him.                  --barrow.
      1913 webster
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appose oppose 

pose
     n 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
     v 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
see also:
airs affectation mannerism affectedness present model 
sit posture impersonate personate put 
set place position lay perplex 
vex stick get puzzle mystify 
baffle beat bewilder flummox stupefy 
nonplus gravel amaze dumbfound 

224 moby thesaurus words for "pose":
   act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advance,
   affectation, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, arrange, ask,
   assert, attitude, attitudinarianism, attitudinize, attitudinizing,
   bearing, beck, beckon, befog, behavior, behavior pattern,
   behavioral norm, behavioral science, bewilder, bluff, bluffing,
   body language, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, cap,
   carriage, charade, cheating, chironomy, color, coloring,
   commend to attention, comportment, conduct, confound, confuse,
   culture pattern, custom, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
   deception, delusion, demeanor, deportment, disguise, display,
   dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dog, doing, doings,
   dumb show, extend, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air,
   false front, false show, falsity, feign, feigning, feint, folkway,
   four-flushing, fraud, front, gesticulation, gesture,
   gesture language, gestures, gilt, give, gloss, goings-on,
   grandstand, guise, hand signal, hold out, humbug, humbuggery,
   imitate, impersonate, imposture, introduce, kinesics, launch, lay,
   lay before, lay down, lugs, maintien, make a motion, manner,
   mannerism, manners, masquerade, masquerade as, meretriciousness,
   method, methodology, methods, mien, mimic, model, modus vivendi,
   moot, motion, motions, move, movement, movements, moves,
   observable behavior, offer a resolution, open up, ostentation,
   outward show, pantomime, park, pass as, pass for, pass off,
   pattern, peacock, peacockery, peacockishness, perplex, place,
   playacting, poise, port, portray, pose as, pose for effect, posing,
   posit, position, post, postulate, posture, posturing, practice,
   praxis, predicate, prefer, presence, present, pretend,
   pretend to be, pretense, pretension, pretext, prettiness,
   procedure, proceeding, profess, proffer, propose, proposition,
   propound, purport, put, put forth, put forward, put it to,
   put on airs, puzzle, query, question, recommend, represent,
   representation, seat, seeming, semblance, set, set before,
   set forth, set up, sham, show, show off, shrug, sign language,
   simulacrum, simulation, sit, social science, speciousness, stance,
   start, station, stick, strike a pose, strike an attitude, strut,
   stumble, style, submit, suggest, tactics, tender, tone, varnish,
   way, way of life, ways, window dressing

pose
     palm operating system emulator palm
     
     

pose
     
        query language written in 1967.
     
        "pose: a language for posing problems to computers",
        s. schlesinger et al, cacm 10:279-285, may 1967.
     
        1996-12-09
     
     
see also:
query language