
pose
n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
airs with me" [syn: {airs}]
2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic
purposes
3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: {affectation},
{mannerism}, {affectedness}]
v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: {present}]
2: assume a posture 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 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" [syn: {posture}]
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}]
6: 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" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick},
{get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {bewilder},
{flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
POSE
Palm Operating System Emulator (Palm)
Source: Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms