Definition: pose

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

pose
     n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
          airs with me" [syn: airs]
     2: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation,
         mannerism]
     v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present]
     2: as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed
        for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, sit, posture]
     3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
        intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: impersonate,
         personate]
     4: behave affectedly in order to impress others; "Don't pay any
        attention to him--he is always posing to impress his
        peers!"
     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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Pose \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.     --Thackeray.
Pose \Pose\, v. t. [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d
   Appose, Oppose.]
   1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] ``She . . . posed him
      and sifted him.'' --Bacon.

   2. 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.                  --Barrow.
Pos'e \Po`s['e]"\, a. [F., placed, posed.] (Her.)
   Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of
   the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
Pose \Pose\, n. [AS. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. W. pas a
   cough, Skr. k[=a]s to cough, and E. wheeze.]
   A cold in the head; catarrh. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Pose \Pose\, n. [F. pose, fr. poser. See Pose, v. t.]
   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.
Pose \Pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Posing.] [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause,
   in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. ?, fr.
   ? to make to cease, prob. akin to E. few. In compounds, this
   word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place, the
   substitution in French having been probably due to confusion
   of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere. See Few,
   and cf. Appose, Dispose, Oppose, Pause, Repose,
   Position.]
   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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

POSE

   <language A query language written in 1967.

   ["POSE: A Language for Posing Problems to Computers",
   S. Schlesinger et al, CACM 10:279-285, May 1967].

   (1996-12-09)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

POSE
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