pose

• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”).

pose (plural poses)

1. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
   • 1586, William Harrison, Description of England:

     Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.

   • 1825, Robert Herrick, The poetical works of Robert Herrick:

     Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.

   • 1903, Thomas Heywood, Lucian (of Samosata.), Desiderius Erasmus, Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's:

     The Ague, Cough, the Pyony, the Pose. Aches within, and accidents without, [...]

   • 2009, Eucharius Rösslin, Thomas Raynalde, Elaine Hobby, The Birth of Mankind:

     And whereas some say, that they which use oft washing of their heads shall be very prone to headache, that is not true, but only in such that, after they have been washed, roll up their hair (being yet wet) about their heads; the cold whereof is dangerous to bring them to catarrhs and poses, with other inconveniences.

From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause.

pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)

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

   To pose a model for a picture.

2. (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
3. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
   • 2010, Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian threat”, in Z Magazine, volume 23, number 7:

     Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.

   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.

   • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

     The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad.

4. (transitive, in the phrase "to pose as") To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
5. (intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
   • 1840, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Shabby Genteel Story”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume IV, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     He […] posed before her as a hero.

6. (intransitive) To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
   • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:

     dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

7. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     She pretended to […] pose him and sift him.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of the Love of God”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose or puzzle him.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The Doctor […] had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips.

pose (plural poses)

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

   Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, […] .

2. Affectation.

From Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.

• poze

pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)

1. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke ij:

     And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.

   • 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 9, page 16:

     'Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection.

2. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
3. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

• poser

• “pose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “pose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• opes, ESOP, peso, epos, EOPs, poës, Poes, poes, OPEs, Epos, POEs, EPOs, peos, PEOs, sope

Borrowed from English pussy.

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [póˑzɪ]
• Hyphenation: po‧se

pose

1. cat

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 100
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 310

From Old Norse posi, from Proto-Germanic *pusô.

IPA^(key): [ˈpʰoːsə]

pose

1. bag

A pose is a simple, flexible one-room container open or openable in the top. Do not confuse with taske.

• “pose” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French pose.

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Hyphenation: po‧se

pose f (plural posen or poses, diminutive posetje n)

1. stance or pose

• epos, poes, soep

From Swedish bås.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpose/, [ˈpo̞s̠e̞]
• Rhymes: -ose
• Hyphenation^(key): po‧se

pose (slang, Helsinki slang)

1. jail

   Alternative form: bose

• “pose”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• peso

Derived from the verb poser. Compare also Italian posa, Latin pausa.

pose f (plural poses)

1. installation

• prendre la pose

pose m (plural poses)

1. extension (in telecommunications)

• → Portuguese: pose
• → Romanian: poză
• → Turkish: poz

pose

1. inflection of poser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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pose

1. inflection of posen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

pose

1. afterwards

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ze/, (traditional) /ˈpɔ.se/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔze, (traditional) -ɔse
• Hyphenation: pò‧se

pose m pl

1. plural of posa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ze/, (traditional) /ˈpo.se/^[1]
• Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
• Hyphenation: pó‧se

pose

1. third-person singular past historic of porre

• epos, peso, pesò

From Danish pose, from Old Norse posi.

pose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural poser, definite plural posene)

1. bag, sack

• “pose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• påså, pøse (dialectal)

Inherited from Old Norse posi.

• IPA^(key): /²puːsə/

pose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural posar, definite plural posane)

1. a bag or sack

• papirpose
• plastpose
• sovepose
• spypose
• søppelpose
• tepose

• “pose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

pose

1. inflection of posa (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Borrowed from French pose.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: po‧se

pose f (plural poses)

1. pose (position, arrangement (especially of the human body))

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: po‧se

pose

1. inflection of posar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpose/ [ˈpo.se]
• Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification: po‧se

Borrowed from French pose.

pose f (plural poses)

1. pose (unnatural posture)

pose

1. inflection of posar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “pose”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28