pose as someone
pose
noun
uk /pəʊz/ us /poʊz/

posenoun (POSITION)

[ C ]
a particular position in which a person stands, sits, etc. in order to be photographed, painted, etc.: （为拍照、画像等摆出的）样子，姿势
He adopted/assumed/struck(= moved into) an elegant pose.他摆出一副优雅的姿势。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Posture
attitude
bearing
body mechanics
carriage
carry
crossed
deportment
orthostatic
position
postural
posture
power pose
power posing
slump
soldierly
strike
strike an attitudeidiom
suck
suck something in

posenoun (PRETENDING)

[ Cusually singular ]
an occasion when someone pretends to have qualities that they do not have: 装腔作势
She likes to appear as if she knows all about the latest films and art exhibitions, but it's all a pose (= she's pretending and it's not true).她喜欢摆出一副对最新电影和艺术展无所不知的样子，但不过是装腔作势而已。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
faker
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
out-bluff
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
professed
purport
quackery

pose | American Dictionary

pose
verb
us/poʊz/

poseverb (CAUSE)

[ T ]
to cause something, esp. a problem or difficulty:
Does this defendant really pose a threat to the community?
[ T ]
To pose a question is to bring attention to a problem, often in the form of a question:
Joanna poses the question, "How do we accomplish these goals?"

poseverb (POSITION)

[ I ]
to move into and stay in a particular position, usually so that you can be photographed or have your picture drawn or painted:
We all posed for our photographs in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

poseverb (PRETEND)

[ I ]
to pretend to be someone else in order to deceive others:
The detective posed as a sailor to try to catch the smugglers.
pose
noun[ C ]
us/poʊz/

posenoun[C] (POSITION)

the position in which someone stands or sits when posing:
Can you hold that pose?

Examples of pose

pose
The prediction is that (6a) should be easiest to process, whereas (6f) should pose the most problems.
In the remainder of this paper, we refer to a stable part pose simply as a pose.
The global pose tracking problem has been widely investigated by fusing various external sensors and odometric measurements.
In such a scenario, the robot has to be able to detect and recognize objects as well as estimate their pose.
Thus, the interpretation of economic evidence from another setting can pose difficulties.
There is considerable awareness that these developments pose challenges in every dimension (ethical, political, economic, and clinical) of the health-care environment.
The specific pose subjects used in this study required them to position their fingers accurately along the edges of the coin.
The processes that pose the greatest risk to the embryo are photothermal and photochemical in nature.
Consider a real-life case that seems to pose problems for the interest theory of value.
His intent focus on the singer's offstage poise suggests how much he has yet to learn about striking a pose and deflecting the gaze.
Competitive veto players pose more intricate problems because we need to know under which conditions the vote orientation of competitive veto players prevails.
The pose of mutuality is compelling enough to conceal these differences.
With partial pose measurements, the experimental procedure is simpler but some of the parameters may not be identified.
The first five types of transformations do not pose any particular problems for identifying and isolating the object.
From the pose error the linear and angular velocities are computed and provide the motion control level.
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