 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
posture
noun
1: position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he
assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: {position}, {attitude}]
2: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good
posture" [syn: {carriage}, {bearing}]
3: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: {position}, {stance}]
4: 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" [syn: {military capability}, {military strength},
{strength}, {military posture}]
verb
1: 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" [syn: {pose}]
2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know
the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: {model},
{pose}, {sit}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Posture \Pos"ture\ (?; 135), verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Posture \Pos"ture\ (?; 135), noun [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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Posture \Pos"ture\, verb (used without an object)
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
236 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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