posture vs expose

expose vs posture

posture and expose both are nouns.

posture and expose both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
posture	Yes	No	Yes	No
expose	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, expose is a hypernym of posture; that is, expose is a word with a broader meaning than posture:

posture: assume a posture as for artistic purposes
expose: to show, make visible or apparent

Other hypernyms of posture include display, exhibit.

posture (noun)	expose (noun)
the arrangement of the body and its limbs	the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
characteristic way of bearing one's body
capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
a rationalized mental attitude

posture (verb)	expose (verb)
assume a posture as for artistic purposes	abandon by leaving out in the open air
behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others	expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
	put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
	remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
	to show, make visible or apparent
	expose to light, of photographic film
	expose or make accessible to some action or influence
	reveal to view as by removing a cover

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