pose
nounEtymology
From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from *pus- (“to blow, breathe hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”).
Definitions
Common cold, head cold
Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
- Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.
- Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.
- The Ague, Cough, the Pyony, the Pose. Aches within, and accidents without, [...]
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- To pose a model for a picture.
To ask
To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
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To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.
- Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
- The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad.
To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of…
To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
To assume or maintain a pose
To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- He […] posed before her as a hero.
To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
To interrogate
To interrogate; to question.
- She pretended to […] pose him and sift him.
To question with a view to puzzling
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 or puzzle him.
- The Doctor […] had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips.
Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
- Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
Affectation.
To ask (someone) questions
To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
- And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.
- 'Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection.
to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
To perplex or confuse (someone).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pose. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pose. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at pose
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA