Dictionary Entry
pose
pose is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
- 2noun
A cold in the head; catarrh.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
To interrogate; to question.
- 7transitive verb
To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
- 8noun
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
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- 9noun
affected manners intended to impress others
"don't put on airs with me"
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- 10noun
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
- 11verb
be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- 12verb
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
"She posed as the Czar's daughter"
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- 13verb
put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"
"Set the tray down"
- 14verb
assume a posture as for artistic purposes
"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- 15verb
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"
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- 16verb
introduce
"This poses an interesting question"
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