pose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pose	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for pose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pose n affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" Synonym(s): airs, pose a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display Synonym(s): affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness v introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present, pose] assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" Synonym(s): model, pose, sit, posture pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" Synonym(s): pose, impersonate, personate 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" Synonym(s): pose, posture 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" Synonym(s): put, set, place, pose, position, lay 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" Synonym(s): perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pose \Pose\, n. [AS. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. W. pas a cough, Skr. k[be]s to cough, and E. wheeze.] A cold in the head; catarrh. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. He . . . posed before her as a hero. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pose \Pose\, v. t. [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d {Appose}, {Oppose}.] 1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] [bd]She . . . posed him and sifted him.[b8] --Bacon. 2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. --Barrow.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
POSE ["POSE: A Language for Posing Problems to Computers", S. Schlesinger et al, CACM 10:279-285, May 1967]. (1996-12-09)