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Meaning posture meaning

What does posture mean?
Definitions in simple English

posture Noun

— A posture is a position of the body. At the start of a race, the runners crouch down into a starting posture.

posture

— noun (= attitude) the arrangement of the body and its limbs he assumed an attitude of surrender — noun (= bearing) characteristic way of bearing one's body stood with good posture — verb (= pose) 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 — noun (= position) a rationalized mental attitude — verb (= pose) assume a posture as for artistic purposes We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often — noun (= strength, military posture) 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

Synonyms posture synonyms

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posture English » English

pose attitude position stance manner stand carriage bearing gesture physique appearance style situation sit model action strength standing shape place military strength military posture military capability locus form demeanor attitudinize stop still status stature station stasis standstill slant show off shoes set sedition riot revolt rebellion rank put on airs put down put pushback prance policy physical standard

Topics posture topics

What do people use posture to talk about?
Physical actions

Posture
Physical actions Posture

Straight posture

Conjugation posture conjugation

How do you conjugate posture?

posture · verb

Examples posture examples

How do I use posture in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A lot of back problems can be attributed to poor sitting posture.
Poor posture can cause many problems.
Yoga can improve your posture.

Movie subtitles

Your posture is very academic.
I ask you, Nene, be strong and maintain your posture.
Look at your posture.
If you girls only knew how important posture is.
Posture, young ladies!
With proper posture, you should at least hit the target.
Death you see has it's own particular posture and appearance.
In short, our entire military posture.
The point of this treaty, as I've reiterated on a number of occasions is that in every true sense we force ourselves gradually to step away from an offensive posture.
The mechanism is regulated in such a way that. the slightest pressure exerted on it. by an incorrect posture. sets off an alarm signal.
Your eyes, your smile, your posture and even your hair speak Persian.
Fencing tones the muscle, sharpens the eye, improves posture.
In this posture.
Assume basic posture.
For your voice, your posture, and especially your presence.
Those are posture chairs.
I guess they're to improve your posture.
Fencing tones the muscle, sharpens the eye, improves the posture.
That posture suits you best.
Do you think Jarrow will adopt- a more defensive posture- for the first leg of the next tie in Turkey?
All right my posture is bad, all right I slump in my chair.
And that this country be put in an immediate posture of defence.
A good try, though, and very nice posture. Harry bagot, you're from luton?
Posture. Posture!
One, arms out, two, arms down, three, arms up and four, back to posture.
I move that this House demand the control of the militia and that this country be put in an immediate posture of defence.
Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness In the posture of a whore.
It's a loose relaxed posture of a panther ready to attack.
Good stomach, good legs good posture.
I'm always in the ideal posture for seeing it, it's beautiful.
You noticed the posture?
They often take up this weird posture.
Recommend defensive posture, Captain.
Posture upset and tense.
But I must stress the importance of the strong military posture at this moment.

News and current affairs

To this old brew, new ingredients have been added, notably the most rapid change in a nation's fiscal posture the world has probably ever seen.
Despite efforts to downplay the significance of the Nuclear Posture Review since its publication, it remains, in my view, extremely provocative and dangerous.
If the US is not careful, our own new nuclear posture could provoke the very nuclear-proliferation activities we are seeking to prevent.
Even Saddam is smart enough to avoid this trap, so he and Iran's ayatollahs will posture and grandstand and thus move oil prices up a bit.
Against all expectations, it struck a morally advantageous posture by offering to surrender some part of its budget rebate, but only if the rest of the European Union (i.e. France, in particular) would agree to fundamental reforms of EU farm policy.
Sticking to a simple objective in the interests of a quiet life, even if you know it to be imperfect, is an inelegant posture at best.
The revision establishes the future direction of Japan's military posture by delegating greater authority to the commanders of the Self-Defense Forces to initiate defensive actions against immediate threats.
Such a posture would be self-defeating, because it would reinforce the division of the international community that the Bush administration has initiated.
From a narrowly British perspective, this might seem a shrewd and reasonable posture for defending British interests.
A more militant Iranian posture is likely to increase friction with Iraq, as well as inspire more anti-American violence there.
Yet, according to the European Commission and those same finance ministers, Ireland's fiscal posture may generate strong inflationary pressures in an already overheated economy and so merits maximum punishment.
But Japan's government also must stop prevaricating with the Japanese people: it should welcome and encourage debate about Japan's defense posture, without fearing that the US-Japan friendship is so fragile that it will be destroyed.
Only when the West adopts a similar posture will Russia stop being a special case, baffling both experts as well as itself.
We will address shortfalls in our military posture through specific national commitments.
The question now is whether governments will give Judge Goldstone's findings the serious attention they deserve, or instead fall back into an overtly political posture.
Above all, Israel must wonder if the peace treaty with Egypt will hold, and, if not, how to carry out the massive restructuring of its defense posture that will be required.
Indeed, the North Korean threat nowadays derives more from the regime's internal weaknesses than from its aggressive external posture - the latter being the authorities' fearful response to the former.
And in the April 10 release of the Nuclear Posture Review, Obama's administration warned nuclear-armed states and others tempted to violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that they would remain nuclear targets.
To Ortega, such a posture reeks of betrayal, social democratic aberrations and imperialist tendencies.
But the EU's posture as a protector of linguistic diversity cannot hide the stampede toward English that is underway.
Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China's nose is doubtful.

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