pose
Position, posture, arrangementPosition, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
» I didn't pose for any pictures.
Я не позував для жодних фотографій.
Я не позувала для жодних фотографій.
Meaning
3 sensesPosition, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
Pose
по́заpóza
по́заpóza
Affectation.
по́заpóza
(archaic)Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
- a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
- affected manners intended to impress others
- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Examples
131 sentencesI didn't pose for any pictures.
Я не позував для жодних фотографій.
They all posed for a picture.
Вони всі позували для фото.
The couple posed for the photograph.
What kind of threat do terrorists really pose?
deWas für eine Bedrohung stellen Terroristen tatsächlich dar?
Tom and Mary posed for a picture together.
deTom und Maria posierten zusammen für ein Foto.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literalFrom 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 *pus- (“to blow, breathe hard”), 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”).
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.
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Forms
plural: posesSynonyms
4 synonyms- affected manners intended to impress others:airs
- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display:affectationmannerismaffectedness