Word Meanings - POSTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action

Additional info about word: POSTURE

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 , 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. Milton. His 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POSTURE)

• Attitude
• Posture
• position
• situation
• standing
• composition
• collocation
• aspect
• pose
• lie

Related words: (words related to POSTURE)

• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• COLLOCATION
  The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
• ASPECT RATIO
  The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.
• STANDAGE
  A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
• STANDER-BY
  One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
• STANDERGRASS
  A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
• STAND
  OS. standan, stan, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. stha. *163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder,
• POSTURE
  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 , the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action
• STANDISH
  A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.
• ASPECTED
  Having an aspect. B. Jonson.
• ATTITUDE
  The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue. 2. The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude;
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• ASPECTION
  The act of viewing; a look.
• POSITION
  A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
• ASPECTANT
  Facing each other.
• STANDARDIZE
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• POSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
• STANDARD-BRED
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• SEPOSITION
  The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• ANTEPOSITION
  The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• UNCIRCUMSTANDTIAL
  1. Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars. 2. Not important; not pertinent; trivial.
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.