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posture

English

Etymology

From French, from Italian postura, from Latin posit?ra (position, situation)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?st??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?p??st??/

Noun

posture (countable and uncountable, plural postures)

  1. The way a person holds and positions their body.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
      As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.
    • 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
      [] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
    • 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
      Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
  2. A situation or condition.
    • 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
      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 []
    • 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
      Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
  3. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
      ...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.
    • 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
      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.
  4. (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
      The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
    • As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. / In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road []

Translations

Verb

posture (third-person singular simple present postures, present participle posturing, simple past and past participle postured)

  1. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
  2. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
  3. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

  • -pterous, Proteus, Puertos, Stroupe, Troupes, petrous, pourest, pouters, proteus, septuor, spouter, store up, troupes

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p?s.ty?/

Noun

posture f (plural postures)

  1. posture, attitude
  2. conduct, comportment

Descendants

  • ? Romanian: postur?

Italian

Noun

posture f

  1. plural of postura

Anagrams

  • sputerò, stupore

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air

English

Alternative forms

  • aire, ayre, eyr (obsolete)
  • ayr (especially when referring to the form of music)

Etymology

From Middle English air, eir (gas, atmosphere), from Anglo-Norman aeir, eyer, Old French aire, eir, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, wind, atmosphere). Displaced native Middle English luft, lift (air) (from Old English lyft (air, atmosphere)), Middle English loft (air, upper region) (from Old Norse lopt (air, sky, loft)). More at lift, loft.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???/, /???/
  • (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /????/, /???/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Homophones: Ayr, ere, eyre, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)

  1. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
    1. (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
    2. (historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
      • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
        Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
        B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
        Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
    3. (physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
  2. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
  3. A breeze; a gentle wind.
  4. A feeling or sense.
    • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
      Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
      The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.
  5. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
    • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:
      "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
  6. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
  7. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:
      "If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman [] "
  8. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
  9. (countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
  10. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
  11. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
  12. A television or radio signal.
  13. (uncountable) Publicity.

Synonyms

  • atmosphere
  • aura
  • lift
  • nimbus
  • gas

Derived terms

Pages starting with “air”.

Related terms

  • aerate
  • aero-
  • aria

Translations

See air/translations § Noun.

Verb

air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airing, simple past and past participle aired)

  1. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
  2. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
    It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.
  3. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
    • 1917, National Geographic, v.31, March 1917:
      Thus, in spite of all opposition, the rural and urban assemblies retained the germ of local government, and in spite of the dual control, as the result of which much of their influence was nullified, they did have a certain value in airing abuses and suggesting improvements.
  4. (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
  5. (intransitive) To be broadcast.
    This game show first aired in the 1990s and is still going today.
  6. (Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
    Why is this girl airing me?

Derived terms

  • air out
  • aired
  • aired-out

Translations

Anagrams

  • ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, Rai, rai, raï, ria

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • ayr

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [e??]

Noun

air m

  1. air

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French air, from Middle French air, from Old French air, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??r/
  • Hyphenation: aie
  • Rhymes: -??r

Noun

air m (plural airs, diminutive airtje n)

  1. air, pretension or pretentious attitude
  2. tune, melody

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: air

French

Etymology

From Old French air, aire, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??/
  • Homophones: aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères

Noun

air m (plural airs)

  1. air (gases of the atmosphere)
  2. tune, aria
  3. appearance
  4. air (pretension)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “air” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • ira
  • rai

Gothic

Romanization

air

  1. Romanization of ????????????

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay air, from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.??r/

Noun

air (first-person possessive airku, second-person possessive airmu, third-person possessive airnya)

  1. water
    1. clear liquid H?O
    2. mineral water
    3. one of the four elements in alchemy
    4. one of the five basic elements in some other theories
  2. (colloquial) a cockfight round which started by spraying water to the cock.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “air” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airid (ploughs, tills).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a??/

Verb

air (present analytic aireann, future analytic airfidh, verbal noun ar, past participle airthe)

  1. (literary, transitive, intransitive) plough
Conjugation

Noun

air m

  1. genitive singular of ar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (stressed) /???/, (unstressed) /???/

Pronoun

air (emphatic airsean)

  1. third-person singular masculine of ar (on him, on it m)

Mutation

References

  • "air" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Kedah Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ä.jäq/

Noun

air

  1. water.
    Air manis
    Sweet water

Kein

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i?/

Noun

air

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Bemal Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

  1. oar

Malay

Alternative forms

  • ?????

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /ae(r)/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /a?(r)/
  • Rhymes: -ae(r), -e(r)

Noun

air (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive airku, impolite 2nd possessive airmu, 3rd possessive airnya)

  1. water (liquid H2O)
    • 2012, Faridah Abdul Rashid, Research on the Early Malay Doctors : 1900-1957 : Malaya and Singapore [2]
      loji rawatan air
      water treatment plant

Derived terms

  • air bah / ???? ???
  • air mata / ???? ????

Descendants

  • Indonesian: air

References

  • Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Norman

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (plural airs)

  1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Related terms

  • atmosphère, atmosphéthe

Old French

Alternative forms

  • aer, aïr, ar, eir, aeir, eyer, aire

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (oblique plural airs, nominative singular airs, nominative plural air)

  1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Descendants

  • French: air
  • Norman: air
  • ? Middle English: air, eir
    • English: air
    • Scots: air

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • ar

Etymology

From the same root as ar (for, preposition).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar?/

Conjunction

air

  1. for (because, since)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55d11
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a2
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a3

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?jir/

Verb

air

  1. (transitive) to strip off, as when stripping insulation off a wire
  2. (transitive) to wipe off a ropelike object by drawing it through one's hand or fingers

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?r?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish ar and Manx er.

Preposition

air (+ dative)

  1. on, upon
  2. of, concerning
  3. for, on account of
  4. by
Inflection
Usage notes
  • The word air and its derivates are used in many idioms:
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish air and Manx er.

Pronoun

air

  1. third-person singular masculine of air: on him, on it
Inflection

References

  • “air” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

  1. oar

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ai?r/

Noun

air

  1. Soft mutation of gair.

Mutation

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