Posing

Definition: Posing

Posing

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "posing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Fine Arts

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Synonym: Posing

Crosswords: Posing

She's a predator posing as a house pet. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

And yet, we've discovered another talent - posing as a girlfriend for homosexuals (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Ever done any posing before (Ladies of Leisure; writing credit: David Belasco; Milton Herbert Gropper)

I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now, and all I have to do is get my posing routine down more perfect, which is almost impossible to do, you know (Pumping Iron; writing credit: George Butler; Charles Gaines)

Well, don't start posing for it now. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

Poster girl posing in a fashion mag (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

A Living Picture Model Posing Before a Mirror (1898)

Just Posing (1978)

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Books

• What's Your Problem?: Posing and Solving Mathematical Problems, K-2 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shore camp crew posing on coral rock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Adelie penguin posing in front of the National Science Foundation Research Ice Breaker NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A student posing with planting equipment. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A brand new Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship MILLER FREEMAN posing for the camera on Lake Erie prior to heading down the St. Lawrence River. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Professor Hentschel posing with a large piece of kelp. Plate 46. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Desert Bighorn Sheep posing for the camera. Credit: Unknown.

Boys posing with fish, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

Caption: Miller Reese Hutchison {And Family?} Posing Before Painted Backdrop of Venice; Unknown Date; {10.138/14} (jpg).

Caption: Group Posing with Phonograph and Cylinder Records; Unknown Date; {29.700/5} (jpg).

Great Britain, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital, Newton-Abbot, England. : Group of patients posing as football players. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

Health

This behavior may persist over time and prove very difficult to change, posing a tremendous challenge to those who must live with, treat, and teach these individuals. (references)

Children

Greece

Someone posing as their guardian or parent brings them to Greece. (references)

Civil Liberties

United Arab Emirates

Official permission must be obtained to use the cremation facilities in every instance, posing a hardship for the large Hindu community. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The law includes provisions that allow a male spouse of a non-Jewish citizen to acquire citizenship and enter the country after the spouse passes a 41/2 year, multistage period of adaptation, except in cases in which the man has a criminal record or is suspected of posing a threat to security. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

It participates in the CIS peacekeeping force in Tajikistan and in UN-organized groups to help resolve the Tajik and Afghan conflicts, both of which it sees as posing threats to its own stability. (references)

Honduras

The import of U.S. made vehicles has also increased significantly over the last two years, posing greater opportunities for American exporters. (references)

Hungary

There are thousands of such small retail outlets across the country, posing logistical challenges for distributors. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

Prison guards and state security officials subjected human rights and prodemocracy activists to threats of physical violence, to systematic psychological intimidation, and to detention or imprisonment in cells with common and violent criminals, sexually aggressive inmates, or state security agents posing as prisoners. (references)

Congo

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that armed bands of Rwandan Hutus posing as Interahamwe fighters committed abuses. (references)

Indigenous People

Cameroon

Others alleged that they have been swindled of their compensation by persons posing as Pygmy representatives. (references)

Political Economy

Rwanda

In May renewed fighting began in the northwest following an infiltration of rebels from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that armed bands of Rwandan Hutus posing as Interahamwe fighters committed abuses in the DRC. In previous years, the Rwandan army allegedly recruited these groups in order ostensibly to demonstrate the need for a continued Rwandan military presence in the areas they controlled. (references)

Congo

There were no reports that armed bands of Rwandan Hutus posing as Interahamwe fighters committed abuses. (references)

Trade

Maldives

Goods considered to be luxury items (cars) or those posing environmental dangers (cars, large motorcycles, plastic bags) are subject to very high duties, as much as 200%. (references)

Travel

Spain

The American Embassy also frequently receives reports of roadside thieves posing as "good Samaritans" to persons experiencing car problems. (references)

Uk

Unlicensed taxis or private cars posing as taxis may offer low fares, but are often uninsured and may have unlicensed drivers. (references)

Romania

Some of the scams are rather sophisticated, involving individuals posing as policemen. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

An estimated 30,000 aliens transit the country annually, generally posing as tourists. (references)

India

Girls rescued from brothels are treated as criminals and often are abused sexually by their police rescuers or by the staff of government remand centers, where they are housed temporarily before being brought back to the brothels as a result of the bribes paid by brothel operators, or legally released into the custody of traffickers and madams posing as relatives. (references)

Pakistan

The boys generally are sent to the Gulf countries under the passports of women posing as their mothers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "posing": posing-pouch.

Ending with "posing": pre-posing, problem-posing, question-posing, re-posing.

Chinese 

摆在 (Posed). (various references)

French

pose (pose, position, posture), posant. (various references)

German

posierend (attitudinizing, posturing), aufwerfend. (various references)

Indonesian

pengancaman (posing a threat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

護摩の灰 (thief posing as fellow traveller), 思い入れ (a meditative pose, posing for effect). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもいいれ (a meditative pose, posing for effect), ごまのはい (thief posing as fellow traveller). (various references)

Korean 

자세를 취함 (Poising). (various references)

Pig Latin

osingpay.(various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "posing": posingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "posing": apposing, composing, counterposing, decomposing, deposing, discomposing, disposing, exposing, imposing, indisposing, interposing, juxtaposing, opposing, overexposing, photocomposing, predisposing, presupposing, proposing, purposing, recomposing, redisposing, reexposing, reimposing, reopposing, reposing, superimposing, superposing, supposing, transposing, underexposing, unimposing. (additional references)

Words containing "posing": imposingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Posing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aposing, opsin, osing, Pessin, Pissings, poing, Ponsyn, pooing, posin, posino, Possagno, possing, Pozemni, puing, Pusiano, Pusina. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gipons, pingos.

-1 letter: gipon, oping, opsin, pingo, pings, pions, pongs.

-2 letters: gins, gips, ions, nips, nogs, pigs, ping, pins, pion, piso, pois, pong, pons, sign, sing, snip, snog, song, spin.

-3 letters: gin, gip, gos, ins, ion, nip, nog, nos, ons, ops, pig, pin, pis, poi, psi, sin, sip, son, sop.

-4 letters: go, in, is, no, on, op.

+1 letter: copings, epigons, pigeons, pingoes, poising, pongids, posting, prosing, scoping, sloping, soaping, sopping, souping, spoking, spongin, sporing, stoping.

+2 letters: apposing, deposing, epigones, epigonus, exposing, hoppings, imposing, ingroups, kingpost, longship, openings, opposing, perigons, pignolis, pogonias, pogonips, posingly, positing, postings, reposing, scooping, shopping, signpost, slopping, snooping, sopiting, spoiling, spongier, spongily, sponging, spongins, spoofing, spooking, spooling, spooning, spooring, sporting, spotting, spousing, spouting, stomping, stooping, stopping, swooping, swopping, toppings, woopsing.