| 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” |
| verb | introduce “This poses an interesting question” |
| verb | assume a posture as for artistic purposes “We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often” |
| verb | pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions “She posed as the Czar's daughter” |
| verb | behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others “Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!” |
| verb | put into a certain place or abstract location “Put your things here” |
| verb | be a mystery or bewildering to “This beats me!” |
| sit | verb | assume a posture as for artistic purposes |
| pose | verb | assume a posture as for artistic purposes |
| model | noun | a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor |
| pose | noun | a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes |
| poser | noun | a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor |
| posing | noun | (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) |
| sitter | noun | a person who poses for a painter or sculptor |
| sitting | noun | (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) |
| posture | noun | the arrangement of the body and its limbs |
| impersonation | noun | pretending to be another person |
| impersonator | noun | someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another |
| personation | noun | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture |
| set | noun | the act of putting something in position |
| setting | noun | the physical position of something |
| place | noun | a blank area |
| placement | noun | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed |
| position | noun | the act of putting something in a certain place |
| positioner | noun | (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track |
| puzzle | noun | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution |
| puzzlement | noun | confusion resulting from failure to understand |
| puzzler | noun | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution |
| mystification | noun | something designed to mystify or bewilder |
| mystifier | noun | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution |
| mystery | noun | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained |
| bafflement | noun | confusion resulting from failure to understand |
| bewilderment | noun | confusion resulting from failure to understand |
| stupefaction | noun | a feeling of stupefied astonishment |