Unscramble posing

Definition of posing

noun:

• (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting". Synonyms: sitting.

verb:

• introduce; "This poses an interesting question". Synonyms: pose, present.
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often". Synonyms: model, pose, posture, sit.
• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter". Synonyms: impersonate, personate, pose.
• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!", "She postured and made a total fool of herself". Synonyms: pose, posture.
• 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". Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, put, set.
• 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". Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex.

Related words

appose, arrange, attitudinise, attitudinize, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, dispose, docket, elude, emplace, enclose, ensconce, escape, fix, glycerolise, glycerolize, ground, imbricate, inclose, insert, instal, install, intersperse, introduce, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lean, load, lose, marshal, masquerade, middle, mislay, misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, plant, poise, posit, position, postpose, prepose, ramp, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, rest, riddle, seat, seed, set, settle, shelve, ship, sign, siphon, sit, situate, snuggle, sow, space, stand, step, stratify, stump, superimpose, superpose, tee, throw, thrust, trench, underlay, upend.

Words nearby

poking, posting.

Rhymes with

closing, composing, enclosing, imposing, opposing.