To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand
If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you. Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers posed for photographs
disapproval You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people. He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously
a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
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"