posture

Etymology
, from, from. .

Noun

 * 1) The way a person holds and positions their body.
 * 2) A situation or condition.
 * 3) One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
 * 4) * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
 * ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
 * 1) * 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
 * But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
 * 1)  The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
 * But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
 * 1)  The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
 * 2) * 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.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: duruş
 * Belarusian: паста́ва
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese: ,
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 * Danish: holdning, positur
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 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: držanje
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 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: поста́ва, стату́ра, оса́нка

Verb

 * 1)  to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
 * 2)  to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
 * 3)  To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
 * 1)  To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
 * 1)  To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

Translations

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Noun

 * , attitude
 * 1) conduct, comportment