(a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
(n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.
(v. t.) The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
(v. t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
(v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
(v. t.) To interrogate; to question.
(v. t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(2) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(3) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(4) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(5) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(6) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(7) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(8) Providing services to pregnant adolescents poses a unique challenge for health professionals.
(9) In fact the very seriousness of the threat terrorism poses and this suggested response demands a full discussion.
(10) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
(11) The central nervous system proximity poses a difficult problem and speaks for an early mutilating surgery.
(12) The diet of seven professional hockey players was studied for one week during the playing season to determine whether food selection could pose a problem for hockey performance.
(13) Respondents did not deal with the simulated ethical problems in a uniform manner and often tended to respond more to specific details of a case rather than the overall ethical dilemma posed.
(14) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(15) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
(16) We have to balance the risk posed to the environment by DDT with the terrible impact this virus is having on the unborn.” Britain is unlikely to be affected because Aedes aegypti cannot survive the cold of UK winters.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) If we accept that al-Qaida continues to pose a deadly threat to the UK, and if we know that it is capable of changing the locations of its bases and modifying its attack plans, we must accept that we have a duty to question the wisdom of prioritising, in terms of government spending on counter-terrorism, the deployment of our forces to Afghanistan.
(19) Climate change poses the single biggest threat to the health of humanity over the next few decades,” said Dr David McCoy, director of Medact and a former NHS director of public health.
(20) Dominick and Elliot pose looking at the camera, in a photograph taken by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1979.
Sticker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
(n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
(n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
(n.) Same as Paster, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(2) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(3) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(4) Following that, they were given a sticker and told that a bigger selection was on its way.
(5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
(6) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(7) Various methods of capturing charges for supplies stocked on nursing units have been devised, such as stickers and charge slips attached to the items.
(8) Today, under ice and snow and behind the crowds of shoppers and tourists, little evidence remains of the terror – though on a metal railing on the pavement outside the Forum, a sticker shows a yellow and blue ribbon – the colors of the marathon finish line – and the post-attack slogan “ Boston Strong ”.
(9) Living well with dementia means more than signs and stickers and a memory clinic,” Ward says.
(10) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
(11) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(12) The album comes with a starter pack of 31 stickers, but I usually top it up straight away with an extra five or six packs to stop it looking too empty.
(13) Stickers and posters then began to appear around the New York suburb of Astoria before the organisation opened a branch there.
(14) They have decorated a box with stickers of sunflowers and, as part of Islam’s therapy, they are placing their mother’s possessions in it.
(15) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(16) Others break up bits of old computers and DVD players for recycling, fitting together U-bends, applying stickers on radiator caps, and building bird tables, bug hotels and hedgehog boxes for sale.
(17) That campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged the rest of the country to follow their initiative, prompting "I'm backing Britain" stickers and badges across the country in a post World Cup wave of patriotism.
(18) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
(19) Open 10am-11pm, but closed for refurbishment until July 2012 Purikura no Mecca Photograph: Alamy Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, sticker photo machines, aka purikura or "print club", are now a cultural mainstay – whether on a date or with friends, Japanese teens have become obsessed with posing for snaps in these increasingly ubiquitous booths.
(20) Someone has already put a sticker on the road sign at the entrance of the village celebrating it as Mladic's last home before he was found.