posture

suomi-englanti sanakirja

posture englannista suomeksi

  1. asenne

  2. poseerata

  3. ryhti

  4. asento, asema

  1. Substantiivi

  2. asento, ryhti

  3. Verbi

posture englanniksi

  1. The way a person holds and positions their body.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=a. 1689|author=Aphra Behn|title=Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

  4. (RQ:Wilde Importance)

  5. A situation or condition.

  6. (quote-text)

  7. (quote-book)

  8. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

  9. 1651, Thomas Hobbes, ''Leviathan''

  10. ...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.
  11. 1912, G.K. Chesterton, ''A Miscellany of Men''

  12. 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.
  13. The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.

  14. 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), ''Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World''

  15. The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
  16. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

  17. to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired

  18. (ux)

  19. to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction

  20. To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

  21. (RQ:Howell Epistolae)

  22. (l), attitude

  23. conduct, comportment

  24. (monikko) it|postura