postureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒstʃə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/

名詞

posture (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 postures)

1. The way a person holds and positions their body.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.

   • a. 1689, 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 […] , [Act I]:

     Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's 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.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. / In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road […]

動詞

posture (三人称単数 現在形 postures, 現在分詞 posturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 postured)

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

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

2. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction

   The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.

3. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

   to posture oneself; to posture a model

   • 1655, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     As pointed Diamonds being set, Cast greater lustre out of Jet, Those peeces we esteem most rare, Which in night shadows postur'd are.

アナグラム

• -pterous, Proteus, Puertos, Stroupe, Troupes, petrous, pourest, pouters, proteus, septuor, spouter, store up, troupes