POSING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Posing

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pˈoʊzɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Pose v. t. (past & past part. posed; pres. part. posing) 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 v. t.

To interrogate; to question. (Obs.) "She... posed him and sifted him."

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 v. i. 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."

See images of 'Posing'

Etymology of 'Posing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Posing" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the limits of science, we have no lack of instances of scientific men posing as authorities on subjects on which they had no real right to be heard, and, what is worse, being accepted as such by the uninstructed crowd. Thus Professor Huxley, who, as some one once said, "made science respectable," was wont to utter pontifical ...

— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

... tradition that will survive from generation unto generation; a tradition of delusion so long as the glamour of poetry, romance, and adventure hang around the mysteriously attractive personality of a Bohemian. Ever since then New York has had, and always will have, the posing Bohemian and his worshippers. ...

— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner

... sheet that had a round hole cut in it, bravely negotiating his head and face as a target; he was working for a man who was running one of those games known as: 'Every-time-you-hit-the-nigger's-head-you-get-a-fine-cigar!' (Uproarious laughter.) There I found him fourteen years ago, posing as a target, and for the magnificent sum of five cents anybody could have secured the privilege of throwing three balls at his face. (Prolonged laughter and applause as Mr. Anderson stepped forward and was introduced to Hon. John Wanamaker, who warmly shook his hand.) To-day this young man ...

— Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization • Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe

... quite a crowd around the camels watching them peacefully chew their cuds, as they do at evening on the dessert, and the Arabs who had charge of the camels were standing around, posing as though they were the whole thing, when the old black, double-hump camel got his quart of horseradish down into one of his stomachs, as he was kneeling down on all fours. He yelled: "O, mamma," and got up on all his feet, and kicked ...

— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck

... a revolt from the (on the whole preferable) extreme opposite of the mincing, patterned manners of which Margaret herself was a-weary. "But he isn't indifferent at all," she now felt. "He's simply posing. His rudenesses are deliberate where they are not sheer ignorance. His manner in court showed that he knows ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

More quotes...