Carriage vs Pose - What's the difference?
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The act of conveying; carrying.
Means of conveyance.
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
(British) A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
(US, New England) A shopping cart.
(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward'', when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and ''carriage paid ).
Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage -horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(obsolete) common cold, head cold; catarrh
* 1586 , W. Harrison
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
* 2010 , Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat , Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
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Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
* Barrow
Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
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Affectation.
(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:
to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
To perplex or confuse (someone).
Carriage is a related term of pose.
As adjectives the difference between carriage and pose
is that carriage is related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power while pose is (heraldry|of a beast) standing still, with all the feet on the ground.As a noun carriage
is the act of conveying; carrying.carriage
English
Noun
(en noun)- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
Hyponyms
* araba * barouche * Berlin * brougham * booby * brake * cab * calash * caravan * carriole * carryall * cart * Catherine * chaise * clarence * coach * coachee * Coburg * coup * croydon * curricle * dennet * devil-carriage * dobbin * dormeuse * double * droshky * family * fiacre * fly * four-wheeler * gharry * gig * Gladstone * hackery * hackney * hansom * hearse * horse-box * horse-fly * hutch * jaun * Jersey * landau * noddy * phaeton * Pilentum * post-chariot * Rockaway * rumbelow * shigram * sledge * sociable * solo * sulky * surrey * tarantass * unicorn * vettura * Victoria * vinaigrette (person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn) * * voiturin * volante * wagonette * walnut-shell * whirlicote * whiskyAdjective
(-)See also
* *pose
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pose, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Now have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) posen, from (etyl) ; influenced by (etyl) ponere.Verb
(pos)- To pose a model for a picture.
- Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.
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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.
- He posed before her as a hero.
- She posed him and sifted him.
- A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* posableEtymology 3
From (etyl) posen, a combination of aphetic forms of (etyl) aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(pos)- 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.