n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

n. affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"

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. direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"

v. place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa"

v. introduce; "This poses an interesting question"

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

v. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"

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 quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

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

n. the trait of being unduly vain and conceited

n. (humility)

v. call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness"

v. cause to spread

v. wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"

v. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

v. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"

v. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

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

v. take part in a masquerade

v. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

v. create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

v. assign to a station

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

v. build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"

v. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

v. cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"

v. fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

v. fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

v. feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary"

v. put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

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 on the back of; "mount a horse"

v. fake or falsify; "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; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"

v. hand over formally

v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something

v. present for acceptance or rejection; "She offered us all a cold drink"

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 (something) 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. lay on

v. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

v. arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"

v. take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

v. go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"

v. create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

v. cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"

v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

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

v. apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"

v. put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump"

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

v. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"

v. cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

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

v. keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"

v. take and lift upward

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