posture
/ˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/noun, verb2 syllables
Posture means: capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war.
Synonyms for posture12
noun, as in capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
verb, as in behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
What does posture mean?6
noun
capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war“we faced an army of great strength”
the arrangement of the body and its limbs“he assumed an attitude of surrender”
characteristic way of bearing one's body“stood with good posture”
a rationalized mental attitude
verb
assume a posture as for artistic purposes“We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often”
behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others“Don't pay any attention to him — he is always posing to impress his peers!”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Posture in a sentence
- If you keep using that posture, you'll become a hunchback.fpp
- Fyodor noticed a security guard standing there, his posture rigid and intense.Amastan
- A lot of back problems can be attributed to poor sitting posture.patgfisher
- Proper posture is necessary to maintain good health.mailohilohi
- Algeria needs to take a more assertive posture in the region.Amastan
- Your posture makes you look shorter than you actually are.DJ_Saidez
- Your posture makes you look shorter than you really are.CK
- Our cats have the posture of a tiger or a lion.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of posture
as a noun
- plural
- postures
as a verb
- past tense
- postured
- present participle
- posturing
- third-person singular
- postures
- past participle
- postured