noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an upright posture/stance (= a straight body position )
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He appears big because of his powerful shoulders and upright posture.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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For similar reasons bad posture can be to blame for congestion and erratic circulation in the lower part of the body.
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Her brother, meanwhile, brought home these drab little women with bad posture .
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Other physical problems, such as clumsiness or bad posture , will slowly start to improve with time.
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Midlife is a time when the results of bad posture can cause trouble.
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Weak muscles will give you a flabby shape and bad posture .
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This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes.
defensive
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It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures .
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Most of all, it requires laying aside the guilt, uncoiling the defensive posture and dealing with the facts.
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You find yourself in defensive postures rather than fighting back.
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Management was always in a defensive posture .
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The enterprise then assumes a defensive posture that offers little true protection and scant opportunity for improvement and growth.
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Feeling at once enervated and threatened, the enterprise collectively hunkers into a defensive , self-protective posture .
erect
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Her baby was wide awake, watchful, sitting by the road with that insolently erect posture little ones have.
good
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It is worth persevering with this very good posture habit.
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The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture , considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.
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An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing, sitting or walking.
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An aggressive posture isn't a good posture and I don't like to go into it.
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They encourage better posture and promote a sense of well-being.
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This is also good for posture .
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Try to walk into the room with good posture , though not like a guardsman on parade.
upright
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Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures , so stiff and tense their buds won't open.
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An upright posture in bed or chair also aids lung expansion.
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The upright posture of the owl is very different from the gull.
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She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.
■ NOUN
body
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Facial expressions and body posture can show a speaker that you are listening.
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One has to do with learning to read body posture , facial expressions, and the like.
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The stance incorporates body alignment and body posture .
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The seated position corresponds more readily to our body posture during the day when stress develops.
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Once you have established your body posture , remember to rotate the head to see the target.
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Frailty can interfere with body posture and gesture and therefore with body language.
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The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration.
■ VERB
adopt
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The bird adopts a characteristic squatting posture with its wings thrust forward to allow the ants access to the important feather tracts.
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Weld has adopted an unusually low-key posture at this meeting in contrast to the high-profile figure he has cut in the past.
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It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures .
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Try to adopt this new posture whenever possible throughout the day.
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Do most members want the Institute to adopt politically controversial postures ?
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The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
maintain
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It was the price of maintaining Britain's posture as a supposedly independent nuclear power, under Labour as under the Tories.
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Through it all, Tatum maintained his posture of mover and shaker, champion of democracy, doer of good deeds.
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She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kerry has really good posture .
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The North has maintained a hostile military posture for 40 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As with all displays, the unusual movements and postures are the result of a state of conflict.
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At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
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At the extreme edge of the picture, a fourth black woman sits on the rocks in a posture of abject humiliation.
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Do the postures continuously, in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading into the next.
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During that initial visit, the team found undernourished children whose slumped posture made it difficult for them to eat.
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Most of all, it requires laying aside the guilt, uncoiling the defensive posture and dealing with the facts.
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Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy.
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She assumed the posture of coolness, confidence and self-assuredness.