n. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

v. introduce; "This poses an interesting question"

v. 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"

v. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"

v. assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

v. 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"

n. the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"

n. the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

n. the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

n. (humility)

v. make visible or noticeable; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please"

v. pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as an expert on the internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"

v. throw (a die) out onto a flat surface; "Throw a six"

v. devise or compose; "This designer makes up our Spring collections"

v. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

v. lift or elevate

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

v. engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

v. get up on the back of; "mount a horse"

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

v. ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

v. refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

v. hand over formally

v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"

v. present as an act of worship; "offer prayers to the gods"

v. perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"

v. plan for an activity or event; "I've scheduled a concert next week"

v. put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships

v. enter into a contractual arrangement

v. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"

v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

v. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"

v. 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"

v. lay on

v. put together out of existing material; "compile a list"

v. to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"

v. destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"

v. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"

v. take and lift upward

v. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"