POSTURE

carriage, bearing, posture

(noun) characteristic way of bearing one’s body; “stood with good posture”

position, posture, attitude

(noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs; “he assumed an attitude of surrender”

position, stance, posture

(noun) a rationalized mental attitude

model, pose, sit, posture

(verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes; “We don’t know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often”

pose, posture

(verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; “Don’t pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!”; “She postured and made a total fool of herself”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

posture (countable and uncountable, plural postures)

The way a person holds and positions their body.

A situation or condition.

One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

(rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.

Verb

posture (third-person singular simple present postures, present participle posturing, simple past and past participle postured)

(intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired

(intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction

(transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

Anagrams

• -pterous, Proteus, Puertos, Stroupe, Troupes, petrous, pourest, pouters, proteus, spouter, store up, troupes

Source: Wiktionary

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Pos"ture, n. Etym: [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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postured; p. pr. & vb. n. Posturing.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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