Definition of "pose" []

• To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait. (verb-intransitive)
• To affect a particular mental attitude. (verb-intransitive)
• To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is. (verb-intransitive)
• To place (a model, for example) in a specific position. (verb-transitive)
• To set forth in words; propound: pose a question. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Liverpool Street, you pose -- yes, _pose_, Jack -- as the urbane man,"
• "The anti-Israel, anti-Jew pose is usually found among Dems these days."
• "The pose is dynamic, showing Ollie in action, having just loosed one of his arrows and with his bow still held aloft."