Posture vs Tone - What's the difference?
posture | tone | Synonyms |
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.
(music) A specific pitch.
(music) (in the diatonic scale ) An interval of a major second.
(music) (in a Gregorian chant ) A recitational melody.
The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
General character, mood, or trend.
(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
* W. C. Bryant
(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
* Bolingbroke
The shade or quality of a colour.
The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus
(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
to give a particular tone to
to change the colour of
to make (something) firmer
to harmonize, especially in colour
To utter with an affected tone.
The one (of two).
*, Bk.X, Ch.lxiij:
*:So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake
In lang=en terms the difference between posture and tone
is that posture is the position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation while tone is a whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.In intransitive terms the difference between posture and tone
is that posture is to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction while tone is to harmonize, especially in colour.In transitive terms the difference between posture and tone
is that posture is to place in a particular position or attitude; to pose while tone is to utter with an affected tone.As a pronoun tone is
the one (of two).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
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English
(wikipedia tone)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ton, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.
- Children often read with a tone .
- Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.
- The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.
- This picture has tone .