posture

Noun

• capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
  • we faced an army of great strength
    
  • politicians have neglected our military posture
    

• a rationalized mental attitude

• characteristic way of bearing one's body
  • stood with good posture
    

• the arrangement of the body and its limbs
  • he assumed an attitude of surrender
    

Verb

• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
  • We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
    

• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
  • Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!
    
  • She postured and made a total fool of herself
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  military capability , military strength , strength , military posture , position , stance , carriage , bearing , attitude , model , pose , sit