Synonym: bearing, carriage, position, posture, pretense. Similar words: expose, impose, suppose, compose, oppose, opposed, propose, proposed. Meaning: [pəʊz] n. 1. affected manners intended to impress others 2. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes 3. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display. v. 1. introduce 2. assume a posture as for artistic purposes 3. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions 4. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others 5. put into a certain place or abstract location 6. be a mystery or bewildering to.
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121, The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
122, When they were all lined up, they held that pose for a moment.
123, Indeed, it does pose with him in the Tassaert engraving.
124, In other words, modular structures do not pose any major threat to subject competence or academic rigour if developed carefully.
125, This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism.
126, But the relatively new drug nelfinavir may pose a challenge.
127, The photographer asked all the guests to stand still and pose for the wedding photograph.
128, This does not mean that the younger members of the underclass pose no threat to public order.
129, Arguments that balconies and swimming pools pose dangers for children are unlikely to get very far.
130, Retrospective conversions and new resources offer opportunities for scholars, but they do pose problems for librarians.
131, In Anton he saw a wary young man who was afraid of dropping the cool pose he had carried until now.
132, When their businesses were booming, they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies.
133, The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages.
134, Before tests can begin, the Food and Drug Administration must decide if the potatoes are likely to pose major safety hazards.
135, When operated in wide expanses of water, away from other people, jet skis pose no hazard.
136, This put paid to Baldwin's attempt to pose as a champion of collective security.
137, The build-up of ice on roofs is also creating leaks that threaten internal wiring and pose a fire hazard.
138, She said Smith paid her to pose naked and talk dirty to him.
139, And she has tried to defuse the threat which science undoubtedly can pose against creative writing.
140, Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classic pose of grief.
141, We were promised a front cover with International Musician and they wanted the band just to pose with their instruments.
142, We can now pose the choice between efficiency and equity in a stark form.
143, For now, regulators suspect current credit problems pose a threat largely to bank earnings,[sentencedict.com/pose.html] rather than their survival.
144, Those who are directing the ballpark construction say the lift technology is tested and will pose little danger to workers.
145, She was aware that, because of their circumscribed and antisocial existence, the question of godparents would probably pose yet another problem.
146, The very low abundances of volatiles and especially the low nitrogen abundance all pose special problems.
147, In convex economies these features do not pose existence problems.
148, For that reason, transfer stations operated by other municipalities or private companies pose competitive risks to the county.
149, Regulators say that although the erosion does not pose an immediate risk, they are concerned about its long-term safety implications.
150, Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.