Posture vs Trend - What's the difference?
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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.
An inclination in a particular direction.
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A fad or fashion style.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= (label) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
(nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
(nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
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To cause to turn; to bend.
* W. Browne
(Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
(UK, dialect, dated) clean wool
As nouns the difference between posture and trend
is that posture is the way a person holds and positions their body while trend is trend.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.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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(wikipedia trend)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) trinde "ball", (etyl) tryndel "circle, ring". More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)Michael Sivak
Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?, passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}
Verb
- The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
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- Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends / Her silver stream.
- What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
