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Definition pose
Etymology 1
From Middle English pose, from Old English ?eposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English ?epos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pus? (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pus?n?, *pusjan? (“to snort, blow”), 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”).
Noun
pose (plural poses)
- (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
Etymology 2
From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin paus?re (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (paûsis); influenced by Latin p?nere.
Verb
pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)
- (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
- (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
- (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
- (intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
- (intransitive) To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
- (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
- (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
Noun
pose (plural poses)
- Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
- Affectation.
Etymology 3
From Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.
Verb
pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)
- (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
- (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
- (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).
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