German

Noun

Pose f ‎(genitive Pose, plural Posen)

1. (human body) pose

Related terms

• posieren

English

Noun

pose ‎(plural poses)

1. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
   • 1586, W. Harrison

     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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English posen, a borrowing 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 ponere.

Verb

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

A family posing for a photo

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

   To pose a model for a picture.

2. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
3. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
   • 2010, Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat, Z Magazine, vol 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:

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

     The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

4. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
   • Thackeray

     He […] posed before her as a hero.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • Francis Bacon

     She […] posed him and sifted him.

6. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
   • Barrow

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

Translations

Noun

pose ‎(plural poses)

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

   Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

Derived terms

• posable

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

• poze

Verb

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, trans. Bible, Luke II:

     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.

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

Derived terms

• poser

Anagrams

• opes, peso, poes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: po‧se

Etymology

Borrowing from French pose.

Noun

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

1. stance or pose

Anagrams

• epos, poes, soep

Finnish

Noun

pose

1. (slang) jail

Declension

French

Etymology

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

Noun

pose f ‎(plural poses)

1. installation

Noun

pose m ‎(plural poses)

1. extension (in telecommunications)

Verb

pose

1. first-person singular present indicative of poser
2. third-person singular present indicative of poser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of poser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of poser
5. second-person singular imperative of poser

Ido

Adverb

pose

1. afterwards

Italian

Pronunciation

• póse, IPA^(key): /ˈpose/

Verb

pose

1. third-person singular past historic of porre

Anagrams

• peso, pesò

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse posi

Noun

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

1. bag, sack

Derived terms

• plastpose
• poser under øynene
• sovepose
• tepose

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse posi.

Noun

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

1. a bag or sack

Derived terms

• plastpose
• sovepose
• tepose

Spanish

Verb

pose

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of posar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of posar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of posar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of posar.