different between posture vs thesis

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

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from ??????? (títh?mi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result) The English word is a doublet of deed.

Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thes?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (théseis).

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?s?s/, (archaic) /???s?s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??is?s/
  • Rhymes: -i?s?s
  • Hyphenation: the?sis
• Plural:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?si?z/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??isiz/
  • Rhymes: -i?si?z
  • Hyphenation: the?ses

Noun

thesis (plural theses)

1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
   1. (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
   2. (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted as a requirement for a university degree; a dissertation.
   3. (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
   4. (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
2. Senses relating to music and prosody.
   1. (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.

      Antonym: arsis

   2. (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.

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References

Further reading

• arsis and thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis, antithesis, synthesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• thesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Heists, Sethis, heists, shiest, shites, sithes, thises

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: the?sis

Noun

thesis f (plural theses or thesissen, diminutive thesisje n)

1. Dated form of these.

   Synonyms: dissertatie, proefschrift

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?e.sis/, [?t???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.sis/, [?t???s?is]

Noun

thesis f (genitive thesis); third declension

1. thesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• thesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette