Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Postures” is a form of

posture

UK /ˈpɒst͡ʃə/ · US /ˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms postures posturing postured

  1. noun The way a person holds and positions their body.
  2. noun A situation or condition.
  3. noun One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  4. noun (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  5. verb (intransitive) To put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired. “If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?”
  6. verb (intransitive) To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction. “The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.”
  7. verb (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose. “to posture oneself; to posture a model”

Synonyms

position attitude carriage bearing stance military capability military strength strength military posture pose model sit

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
  2. noun Place; position; situation. [Obs.] Milton.
  3. verb To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model. Howell.
  4. verb To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

Etymology [F., fr. L. positura, fr. ponere, positum, to place. See Position.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “posture”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “posture” (best matches first).

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