posture

posture

  1. asento,

  2. ryhti

  3. asenne

  4. tilanne

  5. elehtiminen

  6. asema, sijainti

Liittyvät sanat: carriage

Synonyymisanakirja

posture

  1. pysty, pystysuora, pystyasennossa oleva, pystyasennossa, roikkuva, vaakasuora, jalallevienti, kehon ominaisuus, ryhti, käynti, kävelytyyli, asento.

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Käännökset

englanti

asenne

poseerata

ryhti

asento The way a person holds and positions their body.
1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.
1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
...walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
A situation or condition.
1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
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...
1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
...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.
1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
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.
puhekieltä The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World''
The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
puhekieltä to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired

If youre finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?''

puhekieltä to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction

The politicians couldnt really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.''

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

to posture oneself; to posture a model

(rfquotek)

English posture, attitude
conduct, comportment
(monikko) postura|lang=it

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force majeure, kure, houre, kuumehoure, suure, vakiosuure, satunnaissuure

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postmodernistinen, postpositio, postulaatti, postuloida, postuumi, potaatti

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