posture
姿态,姿势,态势,态度
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Definitions
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- : the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- : the position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole: poor posture; a sitting posture.
- : an affected or unnatural attitude: He struck a comic posture.
- : a mental or spiritual attitude: His ideas reveal a defensive posture.
- : one's image or policy as perceived by the public, other nations, etc.: The company wants to develop a more aggressive marketing posture.
- : position, condition, or state, as of affairs.
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pos·tured, pos·tur·ing.
- : to place in a particular posture or attitude.
- : to position, especially strategically: to posture troops along a border.
- : to develop a policy or stance for: The White House postured itself for dealing with the fuel crisis.
- : to adopt an attitude or take an official position on: The company postured that the court's ruling could be interpreted as being in its favor.
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pos·tured, pos·tur·ing.
- : to assume a particular posture.
- : to assume affected or unnatural postures, as by bending or contorting the body.
- : to act in an affected or artificial manner, as to create a certain impression.
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Examples
It’s nice that I can customize the fit to help my posture as much as possible—without breaking the bank.
She argued that it was most valuable instead to approach art by imagining a zone “staked out for a variety of ideas and postures to flex and interact.”
MTS is also pursuing an outside, third-party review of the agency’s policies and practices that could reshape its enforcement posture.
“We want to give away everything we’ve learned, just give it away so other universities can improve their posture with respect to leader development,” he says.
So they were in this posture, which we’ve come to call hide-and-bide.
He throws every fiber of his being into each performance, altering his posture, elocution, temperament, and more.
Some immediately treated the young rapper as a punchline, turning his awkward posture in the photo into a meme.
After the last magnet was retrieved, she assumed slave posture and waited for Couple to unclasp the clamps.
She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.
After tightening her collar, Stella assumed slave posture: on her knees, legs slightly spread, palm resting face-up on her thighs.
Sympathising with its desires, Benjy changed his posture, and managed just to touch the nose of his enemy.
He was told that a son must not play in his father's presence, nor assume free or easy posture before him.
The animal maintains a fairly upright posture, but walks with a waddling motion, its body rocking from side to side.
None of the other anthropoid apes ever walk erect, though they assume at times the upright posture.
Their attitude is in all cases an approach toward the erect one, which posture is attained by the gibbon.