stance

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stance

position of the body while standing; a mental or emotional position: take a firm stance

Not to be confused with:

stanch – to stop the flow of blood or other liquid: Use direct pressure to stanch the bleeding.

staunch – constant; true; faithful; steadfast: a staunch friend; strong; substantial

stance

(stăns)

1. The attitude or position of a standing person or animal, especially the position assumed by an athlete preparatory to action. See Synonyms at posture.

2. A position or point of view: "Peru ... toughened its stance toward foreign investors" (Abraham Lowenthal).

[French, position, from Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia, from Latin stāns, stant-, present participle of stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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stance

(stæns; stɑːns)

1. the manner and position in which a person or animal stands

2. (Ball Games, other than specified) sport the posture assumed when about to play the ball, as in golf, cricket, etc

3. general emotional or intellectual attitude: a leftist stance.

4. (Automotive Engineering) Scot a place where buses or taxis wait

5. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a place at the top of a pitch where a climber can stand and belay

[C16: via French from Italian stanza place for standing, from Latin stāns, from stāre to stand]

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stance

(stæns)

n.

1. the position or bearing of the body while standing.

2. a mental or emotional position adopted with respect to something.

3. Sports. the relative position of the feet, as in addressing a golf ball.

[1525–35; < Old French estance (standing) position < Vulgar Latin *stantia, derivative of Latin stant- (s. of stāns), present participle of stāre to stand]

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Noun	1.	stance - standing posture posture, attitude, position - the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" address - the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball attention - a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review; "the troops stood at attention" erectness, uprightness - the property of being upright in posture
	2.	stance - a rationalized mental attitude posture, position attitude, mental attitude - a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun" hard line - a firm and uncompromising stance or position; "the governor took a hard line on drugs" point of view, standpoint, viewpoint, stand - a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"

stance

noun

1. attitude, stand, position, viewpoint, standpoint They have maintained a consistently neutral stance.

2. posture, carriage, bearing, deportment The woman detective shifted her stance from one foot to another.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

stance

noun

1. The way in which a person holds or carries his or her body:

attitude, carriage, pose, posture.

2. A frame of mind affecting one's thoughts or behavior:

attitude, outlook, position, posture.

Translations

وَقْفَه

postoj

holdning

Haltung

asento

attitude position

staîa

posizione postura

stāja

houding opinie standpunt

fotstilling

duruş

球员的击球姿势

stance

[stæns] N

1. (lit) → postura f

2. (fig) → actitud f
to take up a stance → adoptar una actitud

3. (Scot) (= taxi rank) → parada f (de taxis)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stance

[ˈstæns] n

(= way of standing) → position f

(= attitude) → position f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stance

n (= posture, Sport) → Haltung f; (= mental attitude also) → Einstellung f; (Cricket, Golf etc also) → Stand m; to take up a stance (lit) → in Stellung gehen; (fig) → eine Haltung einnehmen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stance

[stæns] n

a. (way of standing) → posizione f

b. (attitude) → presa di posizione f

stance

(staːns) noun

a person's position or manner of standing, eg in playing golf, cricket etc.

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He accepted new environment and circum- stance with great coolness, eating from his haver- sack at every opportunity.

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On one was piled certain curiously twisted and complicated figures, called “nut-cakes,” On another were heaps of a black-looking sub stance, which, receiving its hue from molasses, was properly termed “sweet-cake ;” a wonderful favorite in the coterie of Remarkable, A third was filled, to use the language of the housekeeper, with “cards of gingerbread ;” and the last held a “ plum- cake,” so called from the number of large raisins that were showing their black heads in a substance of suspiciously similar color.

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It was the first in- stance of harm being attempted to be done to me --at any rate, the first I had ever found out.

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This in stance of neglect is characteristic of utter discour agement.

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He took the peg switchboard of the telegraph, for in- stance, and developed it to its highest point, to a point that was not even imagined possible by any one else.

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It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circum- stances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

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In them circum- stances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable.

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In the course of his Narrative, he relates two in- stances of murderous cruelty,--in one of which a planter deliberately shot a slave belonging to a neigh- boring plantation, who had unintentionally gotten within his lordly domain in quest of fish; and in the other, an overseer blew out the brains of a slave who had fled to a stream of water to escape a bloody scourging.

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Events have occurred which have not improved his temper, and in more in stances than one he has not been allowed to have his own way.

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I think there is a good deal of moral strength in helping people in suchcircum stances."

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The shell of the circum- stances of his life was broken and he was compelled to start forth.

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The noise at night would have been annoying to me ordinarily, but I didn't mind it in the present circum- stances, because it kept me from hearing the quacks detaching legs and arms from the day's cripples.