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Spanish: planteando, posando.

Definition: posing

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To pose or posture. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To locate, put, insert, serve or invest. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To install, fix or settle. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To achieve, make or perform. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To build or construct. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To act or play. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To assemble or tuck. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To cause, get or secure. [Eve - graph theoretic]
9. To poke or shove.[Eve - graph theoretic]
10. Present participle conjugation of the verb pose.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(pose)		 1. Introduce; "This poses an interesting question".[Wordnet].
2. Assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often".[Wordnet].
3. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter".[Wordnet].
4. Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.[Wordnet].
5. Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point".[Wordnet].
6. Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me".[Wordnet].
7. To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.[Websters].
8. To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.[Websters].
9. To interrogate; to question.[Websters].
10. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.[Websters].
11. Base verb from the following inflections: posing, posed, poses, poser, posers, posingly and posedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun 1. (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait).[Wordnet].

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"Posing" is a common misspelling or typo for: losing, posting, poising, prosing, possing.

Date "Posing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1612. (references)

Specialty Definition: posing

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Puzzling; putting to a stand; questioning closely.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Sports & Leisure Technique of arranging people to be photographed in characteristic or pleasing attitudes. Source: European Union. (references)
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of pose. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Topics by Level of Interest: posing

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Posing as a Victim 12     Posing as a Victim 12
Posing as People 10     Posing as People 10

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: posing
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 masquerading, impersonating, placing, fixing, personating, presenting, acquainting, adapting, adjusting, aiming, arranging, assigning, awarding, basing, committing, confronting, congealing, couching, delivering, demoing, demonstrating, determining, directing, estimating, exhibiting, facing, framing, gifting, identifying, introducing, investing, jelling, localising, localizing, locating, marking, nonplussing, personifying, pointing, portraying, preparing, readying, reenacting, saluting, specifying, targeting.
Consider also: poising, installing, depositing, acting, positing, preferring, pretending, reposing, simulating, displaying, interspersing.

Noun

 positioning, modeling, modelling, coiffuring, dressing, grading, moulding, ordering, patterning, planting, rating, rigging, seance, session.
Consider also: airing, seating, pretense, affectation, airs, motion, movement, posturing, pretension, pretentiousness, conduct, assembly, meeting, conference.

Adjective

 perplexing, amazing, baffling, bewildering, complicating, mystifying, stupefying, vexing.
Consider also: embarrassing, feigning, puzzling, parallelizing.

Other

 attitudinizing, coiffing, dumbfounding, fructifying, graveling, molding, redacting, sitting, positting, docketing, ensconcing, pose, move, bear, behave, carry, comport, comprise, constitute, deceive, deport.
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Computed Synonyms: posing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   48.3096   posing     acting     act, actioning, achieving, perform, operate   
 2   42.3194   posing     performing     appearing, presenting, emerging, introducing, perform   
 3   37.3497   posing     positing     locating, proposing, fixing, acting, inserting   
 4   33.3194   posing     presenting     gifting, performing, tendering, producing, rendering   
 5   33.3093   posing     developing     extending, activating, cultivating, develop, causing   
 6   32.3096   posing     fixing     fix, fixed, assigning, composing, settle   
 7   30.3095   posing     locating     allocating, inserting, calling, seating, detecting   
 8   30.3094   posing     appointing     inserting, securing, constructing, accepting, engaging   
 9   29.3195   posing     producing     displaying, producting, carrying, presenting, acting   
 10   29.3094   posing     offering     offer, present, proffer, sacrifice, performing   
 11   28.3092   posing     introducing     initiating, starting, performing, acting, opening   
 12   28.0396   posing     pose     posture, put, set, lay, attitude   
 13   27.3092   posing     constructing     arranging, fixing, appointing, preparing, assembling   
 14   25.3193   posing     pretending     venturing, asserting, shaming, favouring, dramatizing   
 15   25.3095   posing     serving     attending, acting, delivering, using, providing   
--------------------     1037 synonyms ranked from 16 to 1052 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: posing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   21.0494   posing     to posit     posit, put, put down   
 2   21.0094   posing     to lay     lay, lay down, throw   
 3   20.3091   posing     bring down     pull down, put down, drop   
 4   20.0185   posing     place carefully     lay, put, set   
 5   20.0090   posing     carry out     perform, do, achieve   
 6   20.0090   posing     attach to     fasten, fix, join   
 7   20.0089   posing     stick down     fix, attach to, embed   
 8   8.0193   posing     pull on     put on, lay, get on   
 9   8.0093   posing     get on     get, set up, set   
 10   5.0093   posing     to invest     invest, put down, positioning   
 11   4.0085   posing     show to a chair     to invest, placer deposit, put out   
 12   2.3095   posing     to bring     bring, fetch, to fetch   
 13   2.0294   posing     pony up     pay, to pay, defray   
 14   2.0190   posing     bed plants     raised, to plant, planting   
 15   2.0091   posing     enrol for     present, declare, proffer   
--------------------     26 synonyms ranked from 16 to 41 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: posing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.6689   posing a risk to health     dangerous to health     harmful   
 2   1.6688   posing for effect     posing     acting, performing   
 3   1.6398   pre posing     pre-posing         
 4   1.6298   re posing     re-posing     rest, Reposing   
 5   1.6298   re posing     Reposing     peacing, resting   
 6   1.4194   re posing     pausing     resting, recessing   
 7   1.3193   posing as     putting     put, setting   
 8   1.3093   re posing     moulting     mewing, changing   
 9   1.1294   re posing     respite     reprieve, delay   
 10   1.1091   re posing     absence     lack, deficiency   
 11   1.0386   posing for effect     pose     posture, put   
 12   1.0383   posing for effect     a meditative pose     pose, posing   
 13   1.0293   re posing     Restily     restively, holiday   
 14   1.0292   re posing     Restiness     restfulness, recess   
 15   1.0292   re posing     at rest     quiescent, inactive   
--------------------     16 expressions ranked from 16 to 31 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonyms: posing
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 concealing.

Noun

 humility, simplicity, holiness, modesty, devotion, honesty, lowliness, godliness, fealty, subservience, demureness, plainness, frugality, cordiality, diffidence, submission.
Consider also: candor, innocence, chastity, adoration, allegiance, decency, fairness, integrity, justice, reserve, attachment, bashfulness, candidness, dedication, devoutness, humbleness, loyalty, passion, simpleness, duty.
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Translations: posing

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya جِلْسَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), قِعْدَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), وَقْفَة (posture, attitude, attitudes, ceasing, cessation), وَضْعِيَّة (attitude, attitudes, circumstance, circumstanced, circumstances), إثارة (provocation, irritation, agitation, arousal, excitation). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha جِلْسَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), قِعْدَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), وَقْفَة (posture, attitude, attitudes, ceasing, cessation), وَضْعِيَّة (attitude, attitudes, circumstance, circumstanced, circumstances), إثارة (provocation, irritation, agitation, arousal, excitation). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic جِلْسَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), قِعْدَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), وَقْفَة (posture, attitude, attitudes, ceasing, cessation), وَضْعِيَّة (attitude, attitudes, circumstance, circumstanced, circumstances), إثارة (provocation, irritation, agitation, arousal, excitation). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Bahasa Indonesia pengancaman (posing a threat). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian pózování (posing, posturing). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese posando (posing), aventando (posing, suggesting), posing (posing). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Capeverdian poi (install, put, to install, to put, pursue). Additional references: Capeverdian, France, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina pózování (posing, posturing). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 矫柔造作 (posing), 形成 (formation, to form, to take shape, form, forming). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 矯柔造作 (posing). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse pone (apply, to apply, bring, put, sow), incurdassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dipone (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi pone (apply, to apply, bring, put, sow), incurdassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dipone (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican pone (apply, to apply, bring, put, sow), incurdassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dipone (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso pone (apply, to apply, bring, put, sow), incurdassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dipone (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu pone (apply, to apply, bring, put, sow), incurdassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dipone (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), dassi (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech pózování (posing, posturing). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Posierend (posing, attitudinizing, posturing), Aufwerfend (posing, ascending, proposing), Modellpositionierung (posing), Aufstellend (embattling, situating, arranging, marshalling, perking), affektierend (posing), gesundheitsgefährdend (dangerous to health, harmful, posing a risk to health). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Forézien boutâ (give, to give, put, to put, pose), bettâ (give, to give, put, to put, pose). Additional references: Forézien, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Français posant (posing, laying, positting), paradant (posing, sauntering, showing), la pose (posing), poser (pose, lay, put, place, to pose), pose (laying, pose, lay, poses, lays). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
French posant (posing, laying, positting), paradant (posing, sauntering, showing), la pose (posing), poser (pose, lay, put, place, to pose), pose (laying, pose, lay, poses, lays). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
German Posierend (posing, attitudinizing, posturing), Aufwerfend (posing, ascending, proposing), Modellpositionierung (posing), Aufstellend (embattling, situating, arranging, marshalling, perking), affektierend (posing), gesundheitsgefährdend (dangerous to health, harmful, posing a risk to health). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic جِلْسَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), قِعْدَة (pose, posed, poses, posing, posture), وَقْفَة (posture, attitude, attitudes, ceasing, cessation), وَضْعِيَّة (attitude, attitudes, circumstance, circumstanced, circumstances), إثارة (provocation, irritation, agitation, arousal, excitation). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Posierend (posing, attitudinizing, posturing), Aufwerfend (posing, ascending, proposing), Modellpositionierung (posing), Aufstellend (embattling, situating, arranging, marshalling, perking), affektierend (posing), gesundheitsgefährdend (dangerous to health, harmful, posing a risk to health). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Posierend (posing, attitudinizing, posturing), Aufwerfend (posing, ascending, proposing), Modellpositionierung (posing), Aufstellend (embattling, situating, arranging, marshalling, perking), affektierend (posing), gesundheitsgefährdend (dangerous to health, harmful, posing a risk to health). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Indonesian pengancaman (posing a threat). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian posando (posing, laying, reclining), atteggiando (affecting, assuming, posing), ponendo (putting, laying, posing as). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ポーズをとり (posing), 思い入れ (a meditative pose, posing for effect, pose, posing), 護摩の灰 (thief posing as fellow traveller), 問題提起 (posing a problem, raising a question, setting a hare running), ごまのはい (thief posing as fellow traveller), おもいいれ (a meditative pose, posing for effect), もんだいていき (posing a problem, raising a question, setting a hare running), 休み (recess, rest, holiday, vacation, respite), 前もってポーズをとり (pre posing, pre-posing). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Kanuri yakkeskin (put, to put, pose, to pose, lay), tigeskin (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), genaneskin (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Kanuri, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Lyonnais poner (pay, to pay, put, to put, pose), pauner (pay, to pay, put, to put, pose). Additional references: Lyonnais, France, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Oppstiller (posing). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Ouolof teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Ouolof, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese aventando (posing, suggesting), posando (posing), posing (posing). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish posando (alighting, posing), planteando (posing), colocar (put, lay, place, to put, collocate), haciéndose pasar como (posing as), alguien que se hace pasar por beneficiario (an individual posing as a beneficiary). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish fiyaka (splash, swank, showing off, air, airs). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Vivaro-Alpine Occitan pausar (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Vivaro-Alpine Occitan, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Volof teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Volof, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Walaf teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Walaf, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Waro-Waro teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Waro-Waro, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
West Indies French tendre (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: West Indies French, Caribbean, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Wolof teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Wolof, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
Yallof teg (bet, pose, to pose, lay, put). Additional references: Yallof, Senegal, Mauritania, posing. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: posing

Language Translations for “posing” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag pathagosathaging (posing). Additional references: Athag, posing. (volunteer)
Double Dutch pagosaging (posing). Additional references: Double Dutch, posing. (volunteer)
Leet |º0§!|\|9 (posing). Additional references: Leet, posing. (volunteer)
Oppish poposoping (posing). Additional references: Oppish, posing. (volunteer)
Pig Latin osingpay (posing). Additional references: Pig Latin, posing. (volunteer)
Terran A gying ba (act haughty, be poised, crouching, look down upon, majestic air). Additional references: Terran A, posing. (volunteer)
Terran B poseneo (posing). Additional references: Terran B, posing. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi pubosubing (posing). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, posing. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: posing

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Gaulish 400 - 500 leg (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay). Additional references: Gaulish, posing. (volunteer)
Old French 900 - 1400 clore (pose, to pose, lay, put, to lay), adeser (attain, reach, to attain, pose, to pose). Additional references: Old French, posing. (volunteer)
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Adjacent words:

Posession     Posidonius     Positing
Poset     Posie     Positingly
Poseur     Posied     Position
Poseurs     Posiedly     Position Effect
Poseuse     Posies     Position Finder
Posey     Posing     Position Paper
Posford     Posingly     Positionable
Posh     Posit     Positionably
Poshepny     Positas     Positional
Poshly     Posited     Positional Notation
Posho     Positif     Positional Representation System


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