Posture vs. Position
Posturenoun
The way a person holds and positions their body.
Posturenoun
A situation or condition.
Posturenoun
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
Posturenoun
(rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
Postureverb
(intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
Postureverb
(intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
Postureverb
(transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
Posturenoun
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.
Posturenoun
Place; position; situation.
Posturenoun
State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
Postureverb
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.
Postureverb
To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
Postureverb
Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Posturenoun
position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
Posturenoun
characteristic way of bearing one's body;
Posturenoun
a rationalized mental attitude
Posturenoun
capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;
Postureverb
behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;
Postureverb
assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
Positionnoun
A place or location.
Positionnoun
A post of employment; a job.
Positionnoun
A status or rank.
Positionnoun
An opinion, stand, or stance.
Positionnoun
A posture.
Positionnoun
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Positionnoun
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
Positionnoun
(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.Position (finance)
Positionnoun
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
Positionnoun
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Positionverb
To put into place.
Positionnoun
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
Positionnoun
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Positionnoun
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Positionnoun
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
Positionnoun
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.
Positionverb
To indicate the position of; to place.
Positionnoun
the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
Positionnoun
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Positionnoun
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Positionnoun
position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
Positionnoun
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
Positionnoun
a job in an organization;
Positionnoun
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
Positionnoun
the appropriate or customary location;
Positionnoun
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
Positionnoun
the act of putting something in a certain place or location
Positionnoun
a condition or position in which you find yourself;
Positionnoun
an item on a list or in a sequence;
Positionnoun
a rationalized mental attitude
Positionnoun
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
Positionnoun
the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
Positionnoun
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Positionverb
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Positionverb
put into a certain place or abstract location;
