Pose vs Mien - What's the difference?
pose | mien | Synonyms |
(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).
(countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
(countable) A specific facial expression
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Pose is a synonym of mien.
As an adjective pose
is (heraldry|of a beast) standing still, with all the feet on the ground.As a proper noun mien is
a group of related languages spoken by the yao people.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
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