pose

pose
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v
1. affect, attitudinize, act, play to, make a show of; assume, put on airs, Sl. put on the dog, profess; feign, pretend, fake, sham, go through the motions; bluff, deceive, dissemble, posture; show off, swank, be vain, talk big, boast.
2. model, sit, sit for, serve as a model or example.
3. place, arrange, put, position, locate; situate, seat, assign, allocate, dispose; set, lay, park, fix, establish, base; group, order, array, range, distribute; line up, align, file, space.
4. assert, propound, allege, postulate, predicate, posit; state, declare, say, pronounce; present, submit, broach, advance; aver, asseverate, affirm, avouch.
n
5. posture, stance, set, position, stand; bearing, poise, presence, carriage, demeanor, port; mien, look, face, visage, countenance; cast, attitude, air.
6. affectation, pretense, airs, airs and graces, Sl. dog, mannerism, artifice; hypocrisy, crocodile tears, playacting; theatricality, histrionics, melodramatics; pretentiousness, artificiality, affectedness, tushery, magniloquence, preciosity, euphuism; ostentation, display, parade, pomp, pomposity, fanfaronade, exaggeration, Inf. front; foppery, peacockery, coxcombry, dandyism; modesty, mock modesty, prudery, sanctimony, demureness; quackery, charlatanism, humbug.
II
v
baffle, stump, puzzle, confound, perplex, mystify; embarrass, nonplus, put out, bother, disconcert, discombobulate; confuse, dumfound, stagger; bewilder, muddle, addle the wits, Inf. flummox.

A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.

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  • posé — pose [ poz ] n. f. • 1694; de poser 1 ♦ Action de poser, mise en place. La pose d une moquette, de rideaux, d une serrure... par un ouvrier. Pose d un vernis à ongles. Cérémonie de la pose de la première pierre (d un bâtiment). Pose d un rail, d… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • Pose — Pose, n. [F. pose, fr. poser. See {Pose}, v. t.] 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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