What is the meaning of pose?

noun

• Affected manners intended to impress others.
  • usage: "don't put on airs with me"
  • synonyms: airs
• A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes.
• A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.
  • synonyms: affectation, mannerism, affectedness

verb

• Introduce.
  • usage: "This poses an interesting question"
  • synonyms: present
• Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
  • usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  • synonyms: model, sit, posture
• Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.
  • usage: "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
  • synonyms: impersonate, personate
• Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.
  • usage: "Don't pay any attention to him-he is always posing to impress his peers"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
  • synonyms: posture
• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: put, set, place, position, lay
• Be a mystery or bewildering to.
  • usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
  • synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound