posture > define

noun

• The arrangement of the body and its limbs.
  • usage: "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
  • synonyms: position, attitude
• Characteristic way of bearing one's body.
  • usage: "stood with good posture"
  • synonyms: carriage, bearing
• A rationalized mental attitude.
  • synonyms: position, stance
• Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war.
  • usage: "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture"
  • synonyms: military capability, military strength, strength, military posture

verb

• Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.
  • usage: "Don't pay any attention to him-he is always posing to impress his peers"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
  • synonyms: pose
• Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
  • usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  • synonyms: model, pose, sit

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) Place; position; situation.
• (v.i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
• (v.i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.