noun. affected manners intended to impress others don't put on airs with me |
noun. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes |
noun. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
verb. introduce This poses an interesting question |
verb. assume a posture as for artistic purposes We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often |
verb. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions She posed as the Czar's daughter |
verb. 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 |
verb. 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 |
verb. 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 Synonym: nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex, mystify, gravel, get, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox |
