1.  pose(n = noun.attribute) airs - affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
is a kind of affectedness
Derived form verb pose₄

2.  pose(n = noun.attribute) - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes;
is a kind of attitude, position, posture
Derived form verb pose₂

3.  pose(n = noun.act) affectation, affectedness, mannerism - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display;
is a kind of feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
has particulars: attitude, radical chic
Derived form verb pose₄

1.  pose(v = verb.stative) present - introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
is one way to be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

2.  pose(v = verb.perception) model, posture, sit - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
is one way to display, exhibit, expose
Derived forms noun pose₂, noun poser₂, noun posing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

3.  pose(v = verb.communication) impersonate, personate - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
is one way to betray, deceive, lead astray
Derived form noun poser₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP

4.  pose(v = verb.social) posture - 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"
is one way to acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport
Derived forms noun pose₃, noun pose₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

5.  pose(v = verb.contact) lay, place, position, put, set - 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"
is one way to displace, move
Sample sentences: They pose the bags on the table

6.  pose(v = verb.cognition) amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex - 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"
is one way to bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
Derived form noun poser₃
Sample sentences: Something ----s somebody

   A cold in the head; catarrh. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

   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 an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue. [1913 Webster]

   To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait. [1913 Webster]

   To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude. [1913 Webster]
"He . . . posed before her as a hero." [1913 Webster]

1.  To interrogate; to question. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

2.  To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. [1913 Webster]
"A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him." [1913 Webster]

pose, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. assume a certain attitude of body, esp. when being photographed or being painted for a portrait.
2 intr. (foll. by as) set oneself up as or pretend to be (another person etc.) (posing as a celebrity).
3 intr. behave affectedly in order to impress others.
4 tr. put forward or present (a question etc.).
5 tr. place (an artist's model etc.) in a certain attitude or position.
--n.
1 an attitude of body or mind.
2 an attitude or pretence, esp. one assumed for effect (his generosity is a mere pose).

pose, v.tr. puzzle (a person) with a question or problem.

Etymology:
obs. appose f. OF aposer var. of oposer OPPOSE

VB  be difficult, run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out, put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end, go hard with one, try one, pose, perplex, bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock, be impossible, be in the way of, meet with difficulties, labor under difficulties, get into difficulties, plunge into difficulties, struggle with difficulties, contend with difficulties, grapple with difficulties, labor under a disadvantage, be in difficulty, fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles, Have much ado with, have a hard time of it, come to the push, come to the pinch, bear the brunt, grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among eggs, get into a scrape, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears, be put to one's shifts, flounder, boggle, struggle, not know which way to turn, perdre son Latin, stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast, come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock, hold the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail, render difficult, enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle, put a spoke in the wheel, lead a pretty dance.

N  situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.

VB  affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs, boast, coquet, simper, mince, attitudinize, pose, flirt a fan, overact, overdo.

N  form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

VB  be uncertain, wonder whether, lose the clue, lose the clew, scent, miss one's way, not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's, float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder, lose oneself, lose one's head, muddle one's brains, render uncertain, put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass, confuse, confound, bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces, keep in suspense, doubt, hang in the balance, tremble in the balance, depend.

pose as