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noun

Stance n.

A stanza. (Obs.)

A station; a position; a site. (Scot.)

(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.

The mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts in respect to something.

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Etymology of 'Stance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stance" Quotes from Famous Books

... for my week-end with Charles. The weather was warm and sunny, I was bringing my golf clubs down with me, and I had just discovered (and meant to put into practice) an entirely new stance which made it impossible to miss the object ball. It was this that I was explaining to Charles and his wife at dinner on Friday, when the ...

— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne

... which is but a stone's-throw from the bridge. They carried me across the Oise to a mill hard by the boulevard of the Bridge fort, whence, from a window, I beheld all that chanced. No man sitting in the gallery of a knight's hall to see jongleurs play and sing could have had a better stance, or have seen more clearly all the ...

— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

... country's first president, Habib BOURGUIBA, established a strict one-party state. He dominated the country for 31 years, repressing Islamic fundamentalism and establishing rights for women unmatched by any other Arab nation. Tunisia has long taken a moderate, non-aligned stance in its foreign relations. Domestically, it has sought to defuse rising pressure for a more open ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... the huge living space at the Platform's center. He stood up grandly in full uniform—and had to hook his feet around a chair leg to keep from floating absurdly in mid-air. This detracted slightly from the dignity of his stance, but not from the official voice with which he read ...

— Space Tug • Murray Leinster

... boulder there, which partly shut off the view of it from the direction of our cave. The place was perfect for my purpose, for between the boulder and the wall of the tower was a narrow gap, through which I could hear all that passed on the platform. I found a stance where I could rest in comfort and keep an eye through the crack ...

— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... our indisposition, we did not start till the forenoon was far advanced, and the hot west wind had again begun to sweep over the prairie-like stretches of sand and withered grass. We commenced beating up by the Batan or cattle stance, near which we had seen the big tiger, the preceding evening. S. however became so sick and giddy, that he had to return to camp, and Captain S. and I continued the beat alone. Having gone over the same ground only yesterday, ...

— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis

... men who were taking service with Vacuum Tube Transport. These were the soldiers he'd be commanding in the immediate future and the prospects looked grim. There were few veterans among them. Their stance, their demeanor, their ... well, you could tell a veteran even though he be Rank Private. You could tell a veteran of ...

— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... and judicious estimate of all is certainly attained by LeGrand in Daos.[43] He appreciates clearly that "la nouvelle comA(C)die n'a pas A(C)tA(C), en toute circonstance stance, une comA(C)die distinguA(C)e. Elle n'a pas dA(C)daignA(C) constamment la farce et le gros rire."[44] How much more then ...

— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • William Wallace Blancke

... later a young man entered behind Naka Machi. He was slender and his chauffeur's uniform fitted him like a glove. He looked like a soldier in it. Indeed his bearing, his whole stance, spoke of many years as a soldier—and a proud one. The fellow was brimful of health. His cheeks were rosy with vitality. He looked like a man with health so abundant he never found means to tire himself to the point where ...

— The Mind Master • Arthur J. Burks

Words linked to "Stance" : viewpoint, point of view, uprightness, erectness, address, attitude, attention