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Posture Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Posture?
[n] characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"
[n] position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [n] capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture" [n] a rationalized mental attitude [v] as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" Synonyms | Synonyms for Posture: attitude | bearing | carriage | military capability | military posture | military strength | model | pose | position | position | sit | stance | strength Related Terms | Find terms related to Posture: acting | action | actions | activity | acts | address | affect | affectation | affectivity | air | appearance | arrangement | array | assumption | attitude | attitudinize | attitudinizing | bearing | bearings | beck | beckon | behavior | behavior pattern | behavioral norm | behavioral science | bluff | bluffing | body language | brow | carriage | case | cast | cast of countenance | charade | cheating | chironomy | circumstance | climate of opinion | color | coloring | common belief | community sentiment | complexion | comportment | conceit | concept | conception | conclusion | condition | conduct | consensus gentium | consideration | countenance | culture pattern | custom | dactylology | deaf-and-dumb alphabet | deception | delusion | demeanor | deportment | disguise | disposition | dissemblance | dissembling | dissimulation | doing | doings | dumb show | emotion | emotivity | estate | estimate | estimation | ethos | eye | facade | face | facial appearance | fakery | faking | false air | false front | false show | falsity | favor | feature | features | feeling | feeling tone | feigning | feint | fix | folkway | footing | format | four-flushing | frame of mind | fraud | front | garb | general belief | gesticulation | gesture | gesture language | gestures | gilt | gloss | goings-on | guise | hand signal | humbug | humbuggery | idea | imposture | impression | jam | judgment | kinesics | layout | lights | lineaments | lines | location | looks | lot | maintien | manner | manners | masquerade | mental attitude | meretriciousness | method | methodology | methods | mien | mind | modality | mode | modus vivendi | mood | motion | motions | movement | movements | moves | mystique | notion | observable behavior | observation | opinion | organization | orientation | ostentation | outlook | outward show | pantomime | pass | pass for | pass off | pattern | peacock | personal judgment | physiognomy | pickle | place | playacting | plight | point of view | poise | popular belief | port | pose | pose for effect | posing | position | practice | praxis | predicament | presence | presumption | pretense | pretension | pretext | prevailing belief | procedure | proceeding | promptness | psychology | public belief | public opinion | quickness | rank | reaction | readiness | representation | seeming | semblance | sentiment | sham | show | show off | shrug | sight | sign language | simulacrum | simulation | sit | situation | social science | speciousness | spot | stance | standing | state | station | status | strike a pose | strike an attitude | style | tactics | theory | thinking | thought | tone | traits | turn | varnish | view | viewpoint | visage | way | way of life | way of thinking | ways | window dressing See Also | asana | attitude | awkwardness | ballet position | bodily property | capability | capableness | clumsiness | decubitus | display | ectopia | eversion | exhibit | expose | firepower | gracefulness | guard | hard line | lithotomy position | lotus position | manner of walking | mental attitude | missionary position | order arms | presentation | ramp | sea power | slouch | sprawl | sprawling | stance | walk Posture In Webster's Dictionary \Pos"ture\ (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. positura, fr.
ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}.]
1. The position of the body; the situation or disposition of
the several parts of the body with respect to each other,
or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the
position of a figure with regard to the several principal
members by which action is expressed; attitude.
Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively
expressed . . . one would have sworn the very
picture had run. --Sir P.
Sidney.
In most strange postures We have seen him set
himself. --Shak.
The posture of a poetic figure is a description of
his heroes in the performance of such or such an
action. --Dryden.
2. Place; position; situation. [Obs.] --Milton.
His [man's] noblest posture and station in this
world. --Sir M. Hale.
3. State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or
of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a
posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
The several postures of his devout soul.
--Atterbury.
Syn: Attitude; position. See {Attitude}.
\Pos"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posturing}.] To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model. --Howell. \Pos"ture\, v. i. 1. To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose. 2. Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint. |
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