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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈpɒstʃə/
  • GenAm:
    • IPA: /ˈpɑːstʃɚ/

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  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. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.

Verbit

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

Esimerkit

  • As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.
  • ...walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
  • Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
  • Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs...
  • Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
  • ...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.
  • 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.
  • The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
  • If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
  • The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
  • to posture oneself; to posture a model

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