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1. Introduce
   "This poses an interesting question"
   - present
    
2. Assume a posture as for artistic purposes
   "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
   - model, sit, posture
    
3. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
   "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
   - 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!"
   - posture
    
5. Put into a certain place or abstract location
   - put, set, place, position, lay
    
6. Be a mystery or bewildering to
   - perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

1. Affected manners intended to impress others
   - airs
    
2. A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
    
3. A deliberate pretence or exaggerated display
   - affectation, mannerism, affectedness

Derived forms: posed, posing, poses

See also: posed, poser, posing, unposed

Type of: acquit, affectedness, attitude, be, bear, bedevil, befuddle, behave, betray, carry, comport, comprise, conduct, confound, confuse, constitute, deceive, deport, discombobulate, displace, display, effeteness, exhibit, expose, feigning, fox, fuddle, lead astray, make up, move, position, posture, pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretending, pretense [N. Amer], represent, simulation, throw

Encyclopedia: Pose