Fake vs. Pose — What's the Difference?

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit

Present or constitute (a problem or danger)

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham

Assume a particular position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn

Variant spelling of flake

Pretend to be (someone or something)

Forge or counterfeit (something)

Behave affectedly in order to impress others

Variant spelling of flake

Puzzle or perplex (someone) with a question or problem

Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

A way of standing or sitting, especially in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn

One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.

A particular way of behaving adopted in order to impress or to give a false impression

(Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.

To set forth in words for consideration; propound

One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.

To present or constitute

To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit

To place (a model, for example) in a specific position.

To simulate; feign

To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait.

(Music) To improvise (a passage).

To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is

(Sports) To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.

To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.

To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.

A bodily attitude or position, such as one assumed for an artist or a photographer.

(Sports) To perform a fake.

In yoga, an asana.

To coil (a rope or cable).

A studied or artificial manner or attitude, often assumed in an attempt to impress or deceive others.

Not real; false, fraudulent

(archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

(of people) Insincere

Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

Affectation.

(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

(archaic) A trick; a swindle

(transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

(transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.

(transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

(intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.

(archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

(intransitive) To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.

(archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

To interrogate; to question.

To improvise, in jazz.

To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

To puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.

A trick; a swindle.

To perplex or confuse (someone).

To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; - said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

A cold in the head; catarrh.

To make; to construct; to do.

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.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

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.

Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

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.

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

To interrogate; to question.

(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

Make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Affected manners intended to impress others;

Fake or falsify;

A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

Talk through one's hat;

A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Introduce;

Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;

Assume a posture as for artistic purposes;

Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions;

Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;

Put into a certain place or abstract location;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;