Posturize vs Posterize - What's the difference?
posturize | posterize |
To posture.
* 1869 , F. W. Hawkins, The Life of Edmund Kean
* 1875 , Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles
To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
(basketball, slang): To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.
As verbs the difference between posturize and posterize
is that posturize is to posture while posterize is to reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.posturize
English
Verb
(en-verb)- He did not destroy the reality by the exhibition of more energy than belongs to the exhausted powers of a dying man; he did not caricature and posturize in the representation of this awful close of human life.
- Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.