(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.
Superpose
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
(v. t.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is demonstrated that this method is very efficient for finding the correct superposing mode in such systems where hydrogen bonds play important roles.
(2) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(3) On the other hand, counterparts of the C spikes were initial depolarization with a superposed spike burst followed by relatively shorter lasting hyperpolarization which seemed to indicate an enhancement of excitation during the kindling process.
(4) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
(5) In the 3 cases, plain chest X-ray showed regular homogeneous radiolucency superposed on cardiac shadow.
(6) Lineweaver-Burk plots for insulin as varied substrate were linear, whereas those for the thiol substrates were nonlinears: the plots for low molecular weight monothiols (GSH and mercaptoethanol) were parabolic; those for low molecular weight dithiols (dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoic acid, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol) were apparently linear modified by substrate inhibition; and the plots for protein polythiols (reduced insulin A and B chains and reduced ribonuclease) were parabolic with superposed substrate inhibition.
(7) In 15-21-day-old rats subjected to pilocarpine-induced convulsions high voltage fast activity superposed over hippocampal theta-rhythm, progressed into high voltage spiking and spread to cortical records.
(8) delta-activity is no contra-indication, when faster activity is superposed.
(9) The observation was confirmed by a reclassification through nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis of K(1) and K(2) which revealed a correct classification in the pathological range for all factor deficiencies investigated with the exception of factors VIII and IX, the distribution patterns of which were superposed within the limits of distribution.
(10) The accuracy and reproducibility for superposing myocardial images by this digital technique are found to be well within the spatial resolution (FWHM) of the imaging system of the Tl-201 tracer studied.
(11) The main features of this model consist in a subdividing of the whole process in growth parts with a biological meaning, and in a mathematical description of these parts which are mutually independent but superposing one with another.
(12) If the best 203 alpha-carbon atoms are superposed, then an rms deviation of 0.05 nm is obtained (Gros et al.
(13) A consistent interpretation is possible if the linearly superposed displays are assumed to indicate the state of an autonomous optimizer with n linearly independent subfunctionals.
(14) A method is discussed for finding the transformations that mutually superpose an arbitrary number of structures in the least-squares sense given specified atom-to-atom correspondence.
(15) The basic mechanism is connected with the presence of vascular congenital malformation (a. trigemini primitiva persistens), second mechanism is associated with immunologic events (leucopenia-dyshematopoiesis) in which central nervous system is secondarily involved with headaches partly superposed and personality features mildly neurotic, which would represent the third etiologic factor.
(16) The alterations caused by exogenous catecholamines are superposed by alterations caused by emotional stress (injection, tooth extraction).
(17) The markers of the 16-week tracing were superposed on the markers of the 6-week tracing.
(18) The time course of this audiospinal facilitation was superposed over the EMG events during hopping to a simplified musical stimulus.
(19) by superposing in flash on a step of light which was strong enough to saturate the L.R.P.
(20) Incremental flashes superposed on a steady light of increasing intensity evoked responses that had a progressively shorter time-to-peak and faster relaxation, another sign of light adaptation.