pose
1. affected manners intended to impress others (Freq. 1)
- don't put on airs with me
• Syn:
airs
• Hypernyms:
affectedness
2. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
• Hypernyms:
position, posture, attitude
3. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
• Syn:
affectation, mannerism, affectedness
• Hypernyms:
pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
• Hyponyms:
attitude, radical chic
1. introduce (Freq. 7)
- This poses an interesting question
• Syn:
present
• Hypernyms:
constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. assume a posture as for artistic purposes (Freq. 4)
- We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
• Syn:
model, sit, posture
• Derivationally related forms:
posture (for: posture), sitter (for: sit), sitting (for: sit), poser, posing, model (for: model)
• Topics:
art, artistic creation, artistic production
• Hypernyms:
expose, exhibit, display
• Hyponyms:
ramp
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. pretend to be someone you are not;
sometimes with fraudulent intentions (Freq. 1)
- She posed as the Czar's daughter
• Syn:
impersonate, personate
• Derivationally related forms:
personation (for: personate), impersonation (for: impersonate), impersonator (for: impersonate), poser
• Hypernyms:
deceive, betray, lead astray
• Hyponyms:
masquerade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP
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:
posture
• Hypernyms:
behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct,
comport, carry
• Hyponyms:
attitudinize, attitudinise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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, position, lay
• See Also:
lay out (for: lay), set down (for: set), set back (for: set), set up (for: set), set out (for: set), put over (for: put), put back (for: put), put off (for: put), put down (for: put), put away (for: put), put together (for: put), put on (for: put), put up (for: put), put across (for: put)
• Derivationally related forms:
position (for: position), positioner (for: position), place (for: place), placement (for: place), set (for: set), setting (for: set)
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in,
introduce, docket, cock, postpose, prepose, step,
replace, put back, stratify, plant, intersperse, nestle,
snuggle, pile, arrange, set up, superimpose, superpose,
lay over, park, ensconce, settle, dispose, emplace,
ship, underlay, trench, pigeonhole, shelve, jar,
repose, sign, middle, parallelize, butt, recess,
reposition, throw, thrust, tee, tee up, rack up,
coffin, bed, appose, set down, put down, place down,
sow, seed, misplace, juxtapose, bottle, bucket,
barrel, ground, pillow, rest, mislay, lose,
upend, seat, sit, sit down, lay, stand,
stand up, place upright, recline, set, install, instal,
situate, fix, posit, deposit, ladle, poise,
lean, clap, perch, load, cram, siphon,
siphon, glycerolize, glycerolise, space, marshal,
settle down, imbricate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
- They pose the bags on the table
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, bewilder, flummox, stupefy,
nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
• See Also:
puzzle over (for: puzzle), puzzle out (for: puzzle)
• Derivationally related forms:
stupefaction (for: stupefy), bewilderment (for: bewilder), poser, bafflement (for: baffle), mystification (for: mystify), mystifier (for: mystify), mystery (for: mystify), puzzle (for: puzzle), puzzlement (for: puzzle), puzzler (for: puzzle)
• Hypernyms:
confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle,
bedevil, confound, discombobulate
• Hyponyms:
stump, mix up, riddle, elude, escape
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
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