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verb

Pose v. t. (past & past part. posed; pres. part. posing) 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.

Pose v. t.

To interrogate; to question. (Obs.) "She... posed him and sifted him."

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."

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."

noun

Pose n. A cold in the head; catarrh. (Obs.)

Pose n. 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.

adjective

Pose adj. (Her.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Etymology of 'Pose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pose" Quotes from Famous Books

... were the whole task, the entire end of existence. Anderson slumped lower and lower. Each time he blinked his lids opened a fraction less, while the time his eyes stayed closed became a fraction of a second longer. The cabin waited as tensely as the taut pose of the rigid ...

— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn

... givin' us?" responded the suspicious Sam. "D'yous s'pose I b'lieve all that gag about yer comin' here to he'p we'uns? Wot would a guy like yous wid all dem togs an' all dem fine looks want wid us? Yous has got above us. Yous ain't no good to us ...

— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill

... the children of different lands are full of insight, human and fresh experience; and Mr. Menpes's 100 pictures ... are above all remarkable for their extraordinary variety of treatment, both in colour scheme and in the pose and surroundings ...

— Rembrandt • Mortimer Menpes

... give a burlesque portrait of a man-statue on the stage, we again have spiritual labour and artistic intuition. Finally, if photography have anything in it of artistic, it will be to the extent that it transmits the intuition of the photographer, his point of view, the pose and the grouping which he has striven to attain. And if it be not altogether art, that is precisely because the element of nature in it remains more or less insubordinate and ineradicable. Do we ever, indeed, feel complete satisfaction before even the ...

— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce

... "No, I s'pose not. Nor damn nor devil, either. But, of course, I know 'em. Those are the only three I know. I guess they're about the worst, though," she added with pardonable pride. "My cousin, the Captain, knows some more. He's twelve ...

— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

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