Noun | 1. | pose - affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" |
| 2. | pose - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes |
| 3. | pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
Verb | 1. | pose - introduce; "This poses an interesting question" |
| 2. | pose - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" |
| 3. | pose - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" |
| 4. | pose - 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" |
| 5. | pose - 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" |
| 6. | pose - 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"Synonyms: bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, baffle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, amaze, gravel, vex, stick, beat, get |