Posture vs False - What's the difference?
posture | false |
The way a person holds and positions their body.
* 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
* 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
* 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
A situation or condition.
* 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
* 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
* 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
* 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
(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
to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun posture
is the way a person holds and positions their body.As a verb posture
is to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.posture
English
Noun
(en noun)- As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture .
- ...walking in a most dejected posture , without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
- Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture . It is most indecorous.
- 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...
- Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
- ...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.
- 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.
- The Moon beheld in any posture , in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
Verb
(postur)- If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
- The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
- to posture''' oneself; to '''posture a model
- (Howell)
Anagrams
* ----false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}