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Pose vs. Repose — What's the Difference?

Pose vs. Repose — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pose and Repose

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Pose

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

Repose

A state of rest, sleep, or tranquillity
In repose her face looked relaxed

Pose

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

Repose

Be situated or kept in a particular place
The diamond now reposes in the Louvre

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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Repose

Place something, especially one's confidence or trust, in
We have never betrayed the trust that you have reposed in us

Pose

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

Repose

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Pose

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

Repose

Freedom from worry; peace of mind.

Pose

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

Repose

Calmness; tranquility.

Pose

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

Repose

To lay (oneself) down.

Pose

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

Repose

To rest or relax (oneself).

Pose

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

Repose

To lie at rest.

Pose

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

Repose

To lie dead
Repose in a grave.

Pose

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

Repose

To lie while being supported by something.

Pose

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

Repose

To place (trust, for example)
Reposed all his hopes in the new cure.

Pose

To puzzle, confuse, or baffle.

Repose

(dated) Rest; sleep.

Pose

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

Repose

Quietness; ease; peace; calmness.

Pose

In yoga, an asana.

Repose

(geology) The period between eruptions of a volcano.

Pose

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

Repose

(art) A form of visual harmony that gives rest to the eye.

Pose

(archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Repose

(intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.

Pose

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

Repose

(intransitive) To lie; to be supported.
Trap reposing on sand

Pose

Affectation.

Repose

(transitive) To lay, to set down.

Pose

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

Repose

(transitive) To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.

Pose

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

Repose

(transitive) To compose; to make tranquil.

Pose

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

Repose

(intransitive) To reside in something.

Pose

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

Repose

To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

Pose

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

Repose

To die, especially of a saint.
Simon reposed in the year 1287.

Pose

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

Repose

(transitive) To pose again.

Pose

To interrogate; to question.

Repose

To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.
But these thy fortunes let us straight reposeIn this divine cave's bosom.
Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind.

Pose

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

Repose

To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, - often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.
All being settled and reposed, the lord archbishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons.
After the toil of battle to reposeYour wearied virtue.

Pose

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

Repose

To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust.
The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

Pose

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

Repose

To lie at rest; to rest.
Within a thicket I reposed.

Pose

To perplex or confuse (someone).

Repose

Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
It is upon these that the soul may repose.

Pose

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

Repose

To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.

Pose

A cold in the head; catarrh.

Repose

A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.

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.

Repose

Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.

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.

Repose

A rest; a pause.

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.

Repose

That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; - opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose.

Pose

To interrogate; to question.

Repose

Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
Took his repose by the swimming pool

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.

Repose

The absence of mental stress or anxiety

Pose

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

Repose

A disposition free from stress or emotion

Pose

A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

Repose

Put or confide something in a person or thing;
These philosophers reposed the law in the people

Pose

A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Repose

Be inherent or innate in;

Pose

Introduce;
This poses an interesting question

Repose

Lie when dead;
Mao reposes in his mausoleum

Pose

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

Repose

Lean in a comfortable resting position;
He was reposing on the couch

Pose

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

Repose

Put in a horizontal position;
Lay the books on the table
Lay the patient carefully onto the bed

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

Repose

To put something (eg trust) in something;
The nation reposed its confidence in the King

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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