| 单词 | posturize |
| 释义 | posturize in British English or posturise (ˈpɒstʃəˌraɪz) verb a less common word for posture (sense 7), posture (sense 8) posture in British English (ˈpɒstʃə) noun 1. a position or attitude of the limbs or body 2. a characteristic manner of bearing the body; carriage to have good posture 3. the disposition of the parts of a visible object 4. a mental attitude or frame of mind 5. a state, situation, or condition 6. a false or affected attitude; pose verb 7. to assume or cause to assume a bodily position or attitude 8. (intransitive) to assume an affected or unnatural bodily or mental posture; pose Derived forms postural (ˈpostural) adjective posturer (ˈposturer) noun Word origin C17: via French from Italian postura, from Latin positūra, from pōnere to placeposturize in American English (ˈpɑstʃəˌraiz) intransitive verbWord forms: -ized, -izing to posture; pose Also esp Brit posturise Word origin [1700–10; posture + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cirrus, emphatic, envelope, marquise, sliding scale-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize) |
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