What is "stance"

Stance \Stance\ (st[a^]ns), n. [OF. estance. See Stanza.]

1. A stanza. [Obs.]
   --Chapman.

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

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.

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

1530s, "standing place, station," probably from Middle French stance "resting place, harbor" (16c.), from Vulgar Latin *stantia "place, abode" (also source of Italian stanza "stopping place, station, stanza," Spanish stancia "a dwelling"), from Latin stans (genitive stantis), present participle of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "position of the feet" (in golf, etc.) is first recorded 1897; figurative sense of "point of view" is recorded from 1956. The sense of the French word has since narrowed.

n. 1 The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands. 2 One’s opinion or point of view.

1. n. standing posture

2. a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, posture]

Stance may refer to:

Stance is a 12" 45rpm e.p. ( extended play) vinyl record by DIY home recording pioneer and one-man band R. Stevie Moore. The 3-track disc was issued by Moore's uncle Harry Palmer's H.P. Music of Verona NJ in September 1978. It contains Moore's songs and sound experiments from Nashville TN sessions, all originally recorded on 1/4 track 7 ips reel-to-reel stereo tape decks.

The front cover drawing was done by the artist.

Stance was included in its entirety as bonus tracks on the compact disc reissue of RSM's second album Delicate Tension in July 2004 by Alan Jenkins' private label Cordelia Records in the UK.

In martial arts, stances are the distribution, foot orientation and body positions (particularly the legs and torso) adopted when attacking, defending, advancing or retreating. In many Asian martial arts, the most widely-used stance is a shallow standing squat. This position is generally employed as it is a neutral and agile position from which both attacks and defences may be launched. It provides for the delivery of force when attacking and stability when defending.

Stances vary greatly in their application and form. In general, stances may be described in a number of ways:

Stance is a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 113 people.

Stance is the position an American football player adopts when a play begins. There are three common stances used by linemen: two-point, three-point, and four-point. The stance names reference the number of points where a player's body is touching the ground while down in the stance. Each technique has its own strengths and weaknesses; therefore, each one is used accordingly in different situations. Furthermore, stances are taught and used differently depending on the level of competition (little league football, high school football, college football, etc.).

Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal is an academic journal of philosophy which is published annually in April. The featured essays, the editing, and the production of the journal are all entirely the work of undergraduate students. The editorial board of Stance is composed of a team based at Ball State University which communicates with an international external review board of undergraduate philosophers. Each issue is available both in print and online.

In linguistics, stance is the way in which speakers position themselves in relation to the ongoing interaction, in terms of evaluation, intentionality, epistemology or social relations. Different authors have used the concept of stance to refer to the interpretive framework that is at play in an interaction such as irony, or role-playing, others have used the concept of authorial stance to describe the way in which authors position themselves relative to their own texts, and another group have used the concept of interpersonal stance to describe the way the communicative goals of individual participants shape a communicative interaction. Others have drawn on Daniel Dennett's concept of the intentional stance to describe the way humans tend to impute intentions and mental states to those with whom they engage in communication.

Stance is an American sock and underwear brand founded in 2009 by Jeff Kearl, John Wilson, Aaron Hennings, Ryan Kingman and Taylor Shupe. Stance is headquartered in San Clemente, California. As of March 2015, the company had sold over 36 million pairs of socks and raised $100 million in venture capital.

In early January 2015, Stance began raising $50 million to fund their expansion into the underwear market. They raised an additional $30 million from Mercato Partners and other investors in April 2016.

Stance was named the official sock of the NBA in April 2015.

Stance was also named the official sock of the MLB in May 2016.