pose

pose
[[t]po͟ʊz[/t]]
♦♦♦
poses, posing, posed
1) VERB If something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.

[V n] This could pose a threat to jobs in the coal industry...

[V n] His ill health poses serious problems for the future.

2) VERB If you pose a question, you ask it. If you pose an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue. [FORMAL]

[V n] When I finally posed the question, `Why?' he merely shrugged.

[V-ed] ...the moral issues posed by new technologies.

Syn:
3) VERB If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.

[V as n] The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.

4) VERB If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.

Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs.

5) VERB: usu cont (disapproval) You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people.

He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.

6) N-COUNT A pose is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted.

We have had several preliminary sittings in various poses.

7) N-COUNT (disapproval) A pose is an insincere or exaggerated way of behaving that is intended to make a particular impression on other people.

In many writers modesty is a pose, but in Ford it seems to have been genuine.


English dictionary. 2008.

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