Posture ¹

Definition: 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 (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.

Posture ²

Definition: Place; position; situation.

Posture ³

Definition: State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.

Posture ⁴

Definition: To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

Posture ⁵

Definition: Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.

posture ⁶

Definition: characteristic way of bearing one''s body; "stood with good posture"

posture ⁷

Definition: position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"

posture ⁸

Definition: 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"

posture ⁹

Definition: a rationalized mental attitude

posture ¹⁰

Definition: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don''t know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

posture ¹¹

Definition: 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"