Pose

a.	1.	(Her.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; - said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
n.	1.	A cold in the head; catarrh.
	1.	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.
v. t.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Posed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Posing.]
v. i.	1.	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.
v. t.	1.	To interrogate; to question.
	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.

Noun	1.	pose - affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" Synonyms: airs
	2.	pose - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
	3.	pose - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism
Verb	1.	pose - introduce; "This poses an interesting question" Synonyms: present
	2.	pose - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" Synonyms: posture, model, sit
	3.	pose - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" Synonyms: personate, impersonate
	4.	pose - 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" Synonyms: posture
	5.	pose - 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" Synonyms: lay, place, put, set, position
	6.	pose - 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" Synonyms: bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, baffle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, amaze, gravel, vex, stick, beat, get

(language)

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

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