Pose vs Induce - What's the difference?
pose | induce |
(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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=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,
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).
To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To cause, bring about, lead to.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
(logic) To infer by induction.
(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.
As an adjective pose
is (heraldry|of a beast) standing still, with all the feet on the ground.As a verb induce is
to lead by persuasion or influence; incite.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.
Derived terms
* poserExternal links
* * *induce
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Verb
(induc)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), passage=A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy. }}
