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Meaning of pose

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  pose
      n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
           airs with me" [syn: {airs}, {pose}]
      2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic
         purposes
      3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn:
         {affectation}, {mannerism}, {pose}, {affectedness}]
      v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn:
           {present}, {pose}]
      2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the
         woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: {model}, {pose},
         {sit}, {posture}]
      3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
         intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: {pose},
         {impersonate}, {personate}]
      4: 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" [syn: {pose}, {posture}]
      5: 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"
         [syn: {put}, {set}, {place}, {pose}, {position}, {lay}]
      6: 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" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick}, {get},
         {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {pose}, {bewilder},
         {flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze},
         {dumbfound}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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