pose
♦ pose /p'oʊz/ (poses posing posed)
1 [VERB] V n, V n
If something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.
This could pose a threat to jobs in the coal industry...
His ill health poses serious problems for the future.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If you pose a question, you ask it. If you pose an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue. (FORMAL)
When I finally posed the question, `Why?' he merely shrugged.
...the moral issues posed by new technologies.
3 [VERB] V as n
If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.
The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
4 [VERB] V for n
If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.
Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs.
5 [VERB] usu cont, V
You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people.
He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.
6 [N-COUNT]
A pose is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted.
We have had several preliminary sittings in various poses.
1 [VERB] V n, V n
If something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.
This could pose a threat to jobs in the coal industry...
His ill health poses serious problems for the future.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If you pose a question, you ask it. If you pose an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue. (FORMAL)
When I finally posed the question, `Why?' he merely shrugged.
...the moral issues posed by new technologies.
3 [VERB] V as n
If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.
The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
4 [VERB] V for n
If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.
Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs.
5 [VERB] usu cont, V
You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people.
He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.
6 [N-COUNT]
A pose is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted.
We have had several preliminary sittings in various poses.