Posture is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSTURE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to assume a particular position
• behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead
• adopt (a particular attitude) so as to impress or mislead
• place (someone) in a particular attitude or pose
• To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one\'s self; to posture a model.
• To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
• Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
• behave in an exaggerated way to get attention
NOUN:
• the position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting
• a particular pose adopted by a bird or other animal, interpreted as a signal of a specific pattern of behaviour
• a particular approach or attitude
• a way of behaving that is intended to convey a false impression; a pose
• position or way in which someone stands, walks, etc
• 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.
• Place; position; situation.
• 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 arrangement of the body and its limbs
• characteristic way of bearing one\'s body
• a rationalized mental attitude
• capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

Words related to POSTURE

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Words that contain POSTURE

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How to use POSTURE in a sentence

• Such a posture could not be preserved for any considerable period without shifting side for side.
• This posture, on either side, of inactivity, ill-will, and irritation, could not last long.
• We moved along a very narrow ledge in a sitting posture, and then, when we had gone as far as we could in this way, and there was nothing beyond to sit upon, we made a spring.
• Beaver has thrown down his pipe, and declares what measures the allies must enter into upon this new posture of affairs.
• He waited till Burns had thrown himself down on the couch again in a sitting posture, both arms stretched along the back.
• When the Vizier assumes this energetic posture he is commonly either introducing prisoners or bringing in spoil to the king.
• Ellen fell back in a sitting posture and looked for Richard, whom she had forgotten, and who was now standing at the end of the bed.
• That is no folly which keeps down, in the even posture of humility, the spirit which circumstances would only bind and crush in every effort to rise.
• Howland straightened to a dignified and commanding posture.
• His daughter had risen from her half-recumbent posture, and now bent her graceful head over the leaves.
• For two weeks once I was obliged to sleep nights in a sitting posture as the result of a shock of this kind, and it was months before I recovered entirely from its effects.
• Special thought and study, therefore, should be given the question of the sitting posture.
• She caught a glimpse of the unsteady hand that held a cup of water, and she struggled to a sitting posture with a shudder.
• There were twitching movements in his feet, and he shifted his arms this way and that as if no restful posture could he found for them.
• The village was in full posture of defense, all were inside the walls and every man had gone to his post.
• Thou wilt see the ashes thus aloft dispersed exhibiting thy wife in a fine posture.
• But if she cannot do this, then also the woman must rock herself until the child is in a more convenient posture for delivery.
• The pirates were among them, and had opportunities of sounding the men, and knowing in what posture the ship lay.
• During her seclusion she may neither move nor lie down, but must always sit in a squatting posture.
• The posture which, from some considerable experience, I would recommend at this exercise, is sitting with the head reclined upon the desk.
• Not a bad posture, either, for certain reptile souls.
• Through the day, through the long, light, cold evening, the posture of the weather changes not.
• Jocelyn instantly sprang to his feet, drew his sword, and put himself in a posture of defence.
• The posture causes the figure to sway slightly to one side, describing a fine curved line.
• Swann jerked as violently out of his stiffened posture as he had frozen into it.
• Already has John managed to gain a sitting posture, as the fellow at the other end of the rope forgets to pull steadily upon it in his alarm at the new phase of affairs.
• Bressant said no more, but, with an effort that forced a groan, he rolled over on his face, and thence raised himself to a kneeling posture.
• He felt stiff from having been in one posture so long.

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