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Pose vs. Poze — What's the Difference?

Pose vs. Poze — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pose and Poze

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Pose

Present or constitute (a problem or danger)
The sheer number of visitors is posing a threat to the area

Poze

Obsolete form of pose

Pose

Assume a particular position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn
The prime minister posed for photographers

Poze

Obsolete form of pose

Pose

Pretend to be (someone or something)
An armed gang posed as policemen to ambush a postman
A literary novel posing as a spy thriller
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Poze

See 5th Pose.

Pose

Behave affectedly in order to impress others
Some people like to drive kit cars, but most just like to pose in them

Pose

Puzzle or perplex (someone) with a question or problem
We have thus posed the mathematician and the historian

Pose

A way of standing or sitting, especially in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn
Photographs of boxers in ferocious poses

Pose

A particular way of behaving adopted in order to impress or to give a false impression
The man dropped his pose of amiability

Pose

To set forth in words for consideration; propound
Pose a question.

Pose

To present or constitute
A crisis that posed a threat to the country's stability.

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is
Conmen posing as police officers.

Pose

To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.

Pose

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

Pose

In yoga, an asana.

Pose

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

Pose

(archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Pose

Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.

Pose

Affectation.

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

To interrogate; to question.

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

To perplex or confuse (someone).

Pose

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

Pose

A cold in the head; catarrh.

Pose

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.

Pose

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.

Pose

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.
He . . . posed before her as a hero.

Pose

To interrogate; to question.

Pose

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

Pose

Affected manners intended to impress others;
Don't put on airs with me

Pose

A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

Pose

A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Pose

Introduce;
This poses an interesting question

Pose

Assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often

Pose

Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions;
She posed as the Czar's daughter

Pose

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

Pose

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

Pose

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

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