English to English
noun
- affected manners intended to impress others
Don't put on airs with me.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
source: WordNet 3.0
- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
source: WordNet 3.0
- A cold in the head; catarrh.
source: Webster 1913
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- introduce
This poses an interesting question.
source: WordNet 3.0
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often.
source: WordNet 3.0
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
She posed as the Czar's daughter.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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: Webster 1913
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- To interrogate; to question.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [pos] Lumitó; tumulig; tumanong
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
