posture
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Is posture a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of posture?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.Examples: "1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear."; "As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road […]"countablerareuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admiredExamples: "If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?"intransitive
2. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a convictionExamples: "The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media."; "But these plays allow us to look beyond the posturing, punditry and angry speechifying, to really feel the painful, inescapable hardships of daily life as it is lived by increasing numbers of Americans."; "Belarusian officials continue to posture military strength amid the ongoing Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast, Russia."intransitive
3. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.Examples: "to posture oneself; to posture a model"; "As pointed Diamonds being set, Cast greater lustre out of Jet, Those peeces we esteem most rare, Which in night shadows postur'd are."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary