To question with a view to puzzling to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny to bring to a standĮtymology: 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 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 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 Standing still, with all the feet on the ground - said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast Webster Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: "This beats me!" "Got me-I don't know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" Perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound verb
"Put your things here" "Set the tray down" "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" "Place emphasis on a certain point" Put into a certain place or abstract location Put, set, place, pose, position, lay verb "Don't pay any attention to him-he is always posing to impress his peers!" "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
Pretend to be someone you are not sometimes with fraudulent intentionsīehave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Īffected manners intended to impress othersĪ posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposesĪffectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness verbĪ deliberate pretense or exaggerated displayĪssume a posture as for artistic purposes
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