Noun
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capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
"we faced an army of great strength"
"politicians have neglected our military posture"
- military capability - military strength - military posture -
a rationalized mental attitude
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characteristic way of bearing one's body
"stood with good posture"
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the arrangement of the body and its limbs
"he assumed an attitude of surrender"
Verb
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assume a posture as for artistic purposes
"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
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behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
"Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
"She postured and made a total fool of herself"