A Topical Dictionary: Search for stance

Dictionary Results For "stance" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /stæns/
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Noun

The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands.
:The fencer's stance showed he was ready to begin.
One's opinion or point of view.
:I don't agree with your stance on gun control.

Translations

Dutch: houding
Finnish: asento
Italian: postura

Dutch: standpunt
Finnish: asenne, asennoituminen

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stance \Stance\ (st[a^]ns), n. [OF. estance. See Stanza.]
1. A stanza. [Obs.] --Chapman.
[1913 Webster]

2. A station; a position; a site. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Golf, Baseball) The position of a player's feet, relative
to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke
or at bat.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

4. the mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts
in respect to something.
[PJC]

WordNet stance
n 1: standing posture
2: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, posture]

Moby Dictionary
affect , affectivity , affirmance , affirmation , air , allegation ,
announcement , annunciation , assertion , asseveration , assumption ,
attitude , averment , avouchment , avowal , bearing , beck , beckon ,
body language , brow , carriage , cast , cast of countenance , charade ,
chironomy , climate of opinion , color , common belief ,
community sentiment , complexion , conceit , concept , conception ,
conclusion , consensus gentium , consideration , countenance , creed ,
dactylology , deaf-and-dumb alphabet , declaration , demeanor ,
deportment , dictum , dumb show , emotion , emotivity , enunciation ,
estimate , estimation , ethos , eye , face , facial appearance , favor ,
feature , features , feeling , feeling tone , foothold , footing ,
footplate , footrail , footrest , garb , general belief , gesticulation ,
gesture , gesture language , guise , hand signal , hold , idea ,
impression , ipse dixit , judgment , kinesics , lights , lineaments ,
lines , locus standi , looks , manifesto , mental attitude , mien , mind ,
motion , movement , mystique , notion , observation , opinion ,
pantomime , perch , personal judgment , physiognomy , point of view ,
poise , popular belief , port , pose , position , position paper ,
positive declaration , posture , predicate , predication , presence ,
presumption , prevailing belief , proclamation , profession ,
pronouncement , proposition , protest , protestation , psychology ,
public belief , public opinion , purchase , reaction , say , say-so ,
saying , sentiment , shrug , sight , sign language , stand , standing ,
standing place , standpoint , statement , theory , thinking , thought ,
toehold , traits , turn , utterance , view , viewpoint , visage , vouch ,
way of thinking , word