Poor posture can lead to muscular problems.posture nounposture verb
posturepos‧ture /ˈpɒstʃə $ ˈpɑːstʃər/ ●○○ noun 
WORD ORIGINposture
Origin:
1500-1600 French, Italian positura, from Latin positus; ➔ POSITION1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Kerry has really good posture.
- The North has maintained a hostile military posture for 40 years.
- As with all displays, the unusual movements and postures are the result of a state of conflict.
- At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
- At the extreme edge of the picture, a fourth black woman sits on the rocks in a posture of abject humiliation.
- Do the postures continuously, in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading into the next.
- During that initial visit, the team found undernourished children whose slumped posture made it difficult for them to eat.
- Most of all, it requires laying aside the guilt, uncoiling the defensive posture and dealing with the facts.
- Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy.
- She assumed the posture of coolness, confidence and self-assuredness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Poor posture can lead to muscular problems. her upright posture He tends to adopt a defensive posture towards new ideas.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable, uncountable] the way you position your body when sitting or standinggood/bad etc posture Poor posture can lead to muscular problems. her upright posture He tends to adopt a defensive posture towards new ideas. (=a straight body position)· He appears big because of his powerful shoulders and upright posture.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· For similar reasons bad posture can be to blame for congestion and erratic circulation in the lower part of the body.· Her brother, meanwhile, brought home these drab little women with bad posture.· Other physical problems, such as clumsiness or bad posture, will slowly start to improve with time.· Midlife is a time when the results of bad posture can cause trouble.· Weak muscles will give you a flabby shape and bad posture.· This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes.
· It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures.· Most of all, it requires laying aside the guilt, uncoiling the defensive posture and dealing with the facts.· You find yourself in defensive postures rather than fighting back.· Management was always in a defensive posture.· The enterprise then assumes a defensive posture that offers little true protection and scant opportunity for improvement and growth.· Feeling at once enervated and threatened, the enterprise collectively hunkers into a defensive, self-protective posture.
· Her baby was wide awake, watchful, sitting by the road with that insolently erect posture little ones have.
· It is worth persevering with this very good posture habit.· The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.· An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture, whether standing, sitting or walking.· An aggressive posture isn't a good posture and I don't like to go into it.· They encourage better posture and promote a sense of well-being.· This is also good for posture.· Try to walk into the room with good posture, though not like a guardsman on parade.
· Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures, so stiff and tense their buds won't open.· An upright posture in bed or chair also aids lung expansion.· The upright posture of the owl is very different from the gull.· She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.
NOUN· Facial expressions and body posture can show a speaker that you are listening.· One has to do with learning to read body posture, facial expressions, and the like.· The stance incorporates body alignment and body posture.· The seated position corresponds more readily to our body posture during the day when stress develops.· Once you have established your body posture, remember to rotate the head to see the target.· Frailty can interfere with body posture and gesture and therefore with body language.· The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration.
VERB· The bird adopts a characteristic squatting posture with its wings thrust forward to allow the ants access to the important feather tracts.· Weld has adopted an unusually low-key posture at this meeting in contrast to the high-profile figure he has cut in the past.· It was this factor more than any other which caused officials and Ministers alike to adopt such defensive postures.· Try to adopt this new posture whenever possible throughout the day.· Do most members want the Institute to adopt politically controversial postures?· The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
· It was the price of maintaining Britain's posture as a supposedly independent nuclear power, under Labour as under the Tories.· Through it all, Tatum maintained his posture of mover and shaker, champion of democracy, doer of good deeds.· She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.
Poor posture can lead to muscular problems. her upright posture2[singular] the way you behave or think in a particular situationposture towards He tends to adopt a defensive posture towards new ideas.posture nounposture verb
posturingpos‧tur‧ing /ˈpɒstʃərɪŋ $ ˈpɑːs-/ noun [countable, uncountable] formal EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He dismissed the Senator's comments as "political posturing."
- Ken's muscular posturing in front of the mirror is making me sick.
- But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing.
- Janir chose skiing, which like so many sports was laced with posturing and attitude and ostentatious display.
- Jeffries had turned City into a symbol of racial posturing.
- Now take such ritual posturing and stage it nation-wide.
- Political posturing has encouraged a degeneration into the politicization of social issues.
- The male courts the female by singing and posturing, often with a small twig or leaf in his bill.
- There was much aggressive posturing, bowing, beating of half-open wings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He dismissed the Senator’s comments as ‘political posturing’.
1when someone pretends to have a particular opinion or attitude: He dismissed the Senator’s comments as ‘political posturing’. He dismissed the Senator’s comments as ‘political posturing’.2when someone stands or moves in a way that they hope will make other people notice and admire them—posture verb [intransitive]