Posing vs Pose - What's the difference?
posing | pose |
The act by which something is posed.
The act of one who poses or postures.
* 1978 , Norman W. Provizer, Analyzing the Third World: Essays from Comparative Politics
(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).
As verbs the difference between posing and pose
is that posing is present participle of lang=en while pose is to place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.As nouns the difference between posing and pose
is that posing is the act by which something is posed while pose is common cold, head cold; catarrh.As an adjective posé is
standing still, with all the feet on the ground.posing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- different posings of what was essentially the same question
- However much the Ghanaian masses warmed to the traditional pomp and circumstance of his occasional public appearances, members of the elite did not take Nkrumah's posings as a national chief seriously.
Anagrams
*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.
