[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
posed posing few appose dispose oppose 
pause repose position 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

posing
     n : photography the act of assuming a certain position as for
         a photograph or portrait; "he wanted his portrait
         painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting" syn: sitting
see also:
sitting 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

78 moby thesaurus words for "posing":
   acting, affectation, aping, appearance, attitudinarianism,
   attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, characterization, cheating, color,
   coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling,
   dissimulation, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, facade,
   face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity,
   feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, humbug,
   humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, incarnation,
   masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming,
   ostentation, outward show, pantomime, pantomiming, peacockery,
   peacockishness, performance, performing, personation,
   personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posture,
   posturing, pretense, pretension, pretext, representation, seeming,
   semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness,
   varnish, window dressing

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