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See post-

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pəʊst/,
  • , IPA: /poʊst/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-post.ogg


Etymology

From and post, from postis.

Noun

  1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
  2. An assigned station; a guard post.
  3. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
  4. A particular method of sending mail; sent via post.
  5. : a stud; a two-by-four.
  6. {{context|vocal|_|music|esp.|_|a cappella}} a prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
  7. A pole in a battery
  8. An individual message in a forum
  9. In the Context of A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.


Translations

  • Greek: {{t|el|στύλος|m|tr=stýlos|sc=Grek}}, {{t|el|πάσσαλος|m|tr=pássalos|sc=Grek}}
  • Russian: столб
  • Greek: {{t|el|ταχυδρομικώς|tr=tachydromikos|sc=Grek}} (=by mail)

Verb

  1. To hang a notice in a conspicuous manner for general review.
  2. : Post no bills.
  3. To send mail.
  4. : Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
  5. To send a message to a Usenet newsgroup or to a mailing list; to save a message on a blog.
  6. : I couldn't figure it out so I posted a question on Usenet.
  7. To pay a blind
  8. : Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.


Translations

  • Greek: {{t|el|ταχυδρομώ|tr=tachydromó|sc=Grek}}


Adverb

  1. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
  2. * 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:
  3. *: He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.
  4. sent via the postal service


Derived terms


Translations

Preposition

  1. after


Quotations

Anagrams


See also


Category:Paper sizes

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Croatian

Noun

post m

  1. fasting


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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Nl-post.ogg


Noun

  1. mail
  2. mail office
  3. location or station, when a soldier is op post, he is where he is supposed to be.


Derived terms


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Esperanto

Etymology

Latin post

Preposition

post

  1. after


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Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: lang=ga


Noun

{{infl|ga|noun|g=m}}

  1. job
  2. #English|post


Declension

{{ga noun m1|p|ost|oist}}

Mutation

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Kurdish

Noun

post m

  1. skin


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Latin

Adverb

post

  1. behind, afterwards, after


Preposition

post + accusative

  1. behind (in space), after (in time), subordinate to (in rank)


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Polish

Noun

post

  1. fast


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Slovene

Noun

{{infl|sl|noun|g=m}}

  1. fast (act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)


{{tbot entry|Slovene|fast|2008|April|sl}}

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-post.ogg


Noun

post

  1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
  2. (mass noun) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
  3. item of a list or on an agenda
  4. #English|post; an assigned station
  5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected
  6. : Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant. = The position as chairman in the sports association is free.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sheth \Sheth\, n.
The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,
for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called
standard, or post.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses
were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L.
positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See Position, and cf.
Post a pillar.]
1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed;
a station. Specifically:
(a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established
for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on
some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
(b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a
body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such
a station.
(c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is
limited.
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2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially,
one who is employed by the government to carry letters and
parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter
carrier; a postman.
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In certain places there be always fresh posts, to
carry that further which is brought unto them by the
other. --Abp. Abbot.
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I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak.
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3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or
station to another; especially, the governmental system in
any country for carrying and distributing letters and
parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by
which the mail is transported.
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I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness,
which I should not care to hazard by the common
post. --Pope.
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4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
[Obs.] "In post he came." --Shak.
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5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal
station. [Obs.]
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He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then
called, post, for several years. --Palfrey.
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6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or
emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
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The post of honor is a private station. --Addison.
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7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under
Paper.
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Post and pair, an old game at cards, in which each player a
hand of three cards. --B. Jonson.

Post bag, a mail bag.

Post bill, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster.

Post chaise, or Post coach, a carriage usually with four
wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post.


Post day, a day on which the mall arrives or departs.

Post hackney, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton.

Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a
carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman.

Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the
post.

Post hour, hour for posting letters. --Dickens.

Post office.
(a) An office under governmental superintendence, where
letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are
received and distributed; a place appointed for
attending to all business connected with the mail.
(b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter.

Postoffice order. See Money order, under Money.

Post road, or Post route, a road or way over which the
mail is carried.

Post town.
(a) A town in which post horses are kept.
(b) A town in which a post office is established by law.


To ride post, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from
place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little
delay as possible.

To travel post, to travel, as a post does, by relays of
horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses
are attached at each stopping place.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post- \Post-\ (p[=o]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr.
pa[,c]c[=a]behind, afterwards.]
A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure,
postdot, postscript.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position,
generally for a bad purpose.]
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to
place. See Position, and cf. 4th Post.]
1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed,
or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially
when intended as a stay or support to something else; a
pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a
house.
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They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the
two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the
houses. --Ex. xii. 7.
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Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders
bore,
The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton.
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Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer.
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Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is
used in composition, in such words as king-post,
queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc.
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2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were
chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
[Obs.]
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When God sends coin
I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands.
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From pillar to post. See under Pillar.

Knight of the post. See under Knight.

Post hanger (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft,
adapted to be fastened to a post.

Post hole, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post
in.

Post mill, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole
fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the
ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of
the wind varies.

Post and stall (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which
pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Posting.]
1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of
affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice;
to post playbills.
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Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's
office, or in some public place, upon which legal
notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has
not entirely gone of use.
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2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
post one for cowardice.
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On pain of being posted to your sorrow
Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville.
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3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or
the like.
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4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a
sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant,
. . . or to get him posted." --De Quincey.
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5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to
the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as
accounts, to the ledger.
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You have not posted your books these ten years.
--Arbuthnot.
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6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
letter.
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7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
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Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
of the day. --Lond. Sat.
Rev.
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To post off, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I,
venturously, post off so great a business?" --Baxter.

To post over, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, adv.
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th Post.]
1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in
haste. "Post seedily to my lord your husband." --Shak.
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And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton.
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2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with
the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]
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WordNet post
n 1: the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or
is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance
post"; "a sentry station" [syn: station]
2: military installation at which a body of troops is
stationed; "this military post provides an important
source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an
officer's club on the post" [syn: military post]
3: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: position, berth, office, spot, billet,
place, situation]
4: an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed
firmly in an upright position; "he set a row of posts in
the ground and strung barbwire between them"
5: United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight
around the world (1899-1935) [syn: Wiley Post]
6: United States female author who wrote a book and a
syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) [syn:
Emily Post, Emily Price Post]
7: United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum
(1854-1914) [syn: C. W. Post, Charles William Post]
8: any particular collection of letters or packages that is
delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post
for me?"; "she was opening her post" [syn: mail]
9: a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or
end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal";
"the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake" [syn: stake]
10: the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post
office; "the mail handles billions of items every day";
"he works for the United States mail service"; "in
England they call mail `the post'" [syn: mail, {mail
service}, postal service]
11: the delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it
came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the
post"
v 1: affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a
warning"
2: publicize with, or as if with, a poster; "I'll post the news
on the bulletin board"
3: assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him
in Timbuktu"
4: assign to a station [syn: station, base, send, place]
5: display, as of records in sports games
6: enter on a public list
7: transfer (entries) from one account book to another [syn: carry]
8: ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in
rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
9: mark with a stake; "stake out the path" [syn: stake]
10: put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: {put
up}]
11: cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send
me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when
it's written" [syn: mail, send]
12: mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman"
[syn: brand]
Moby Dictionary
Hermes , Iris , Mercury , PP , Paul Revere , Pheidippides , RD , RFD ,
Samson post , accredit , acquaint , acropolis , advertise , advise ,
affiliate , affix , air-express , airfreight , airmail , angle ,
announce , appoint , appointment , apprise , arcade , arm , assign ,
assignment , atlas , authorize , balance , balance the books , ballyhoo ,
baluster , balustrade , banister , bark , base , bastion , beachhead ,
beam , berth , bill , billet , blockhouse , board , boarding , bolt , bond ,
book , book post , boost , bottomry , boutique , brace , branch ,
branch office , bridgehead , brief , build up , bulletin , bundle ,
bunker , bustle , calendar , capitalize , career , carrier , carry ,
carry over , carve , caryatid , cast up accounts , castle , catalog ,
chain store , chalk , chalk up , chapter , charge , charge off , charter ,
chase , check in , chore , chronicle , circularize , circulate , citadel ,
clapboard , close out , close the books , clue , co-op , collection ,
colonnade , colonnette , column , come across , come across with ,
come down with , come through with , commission , commissionaire ,
commit , concession , connection , consign , cooperative , cord ,
cordwood , correspondence , cough up , countinghouse , country store ,
courier , credit , crowd , cry up , cut , dado , dart , dash , dash off ,
dash on , deal , debit , delegate , delivery , department store ,
deposit , depute , deputize , detach , detail , devolute , devolve ,
devolve upon , die , dime store , diplomatic courier , direct mail ,
direct-mail selling , discount house , discount store , dispatch ,
distance , division , docket , donjon , doorjamb , doorpost ,
double-time , driftwood , drop a letter , duty , embark , emissary ,
employment , emporium , empower , engagement , engrave , enroll ,
enscroll , enter , entrust , enumerate , establish , establishment ,
estafette , expedite , export , express , fasthold , fastness ,
festinate , file , fill in , fill out , firewood , five-and-ten , fling ,
footing , footstalk , fork over , fort , fortress , forward ,
fourth-class mail , frank , freight , function , garrison ,
garrison house , gatepost , general store , get going , get moving ,
gig , give a write-up , give in charge , give publicity , go bail ,
go-between , grave , grease the palm , ground , halfpenny post ,
handsel , hardwood , haste , hasten , hie , hitching post , hock , hold ,
house , hump , hump it , hurry , hurry on , hurry through , hurry up ,
hurry-scurry , hurtle , hustle , hypothecate , impanel , impignorate ,
incise , incumbency , index , inform , inscribe , insert , inventory ,
itemize , jack , jamb , job , jot down , journalize , junk mail , keep ,
keep books , keep score , kick in , king post , lath , lathing ,
lathwork , lay on one , leap , leg , letter post , letters , license ,
list , local , locate , lodge , log , lose no time , lumber , magasin ,
mail , mail-order house , mail-order selling , mailing list ,
make a memorandum , make a note , make an entry , make haste ,
make out , mark down , market , mart , martello , martello tower ,
matriculate , message-bearer , messenger , milepost , minute , mission ,
moonlighting , mortgage , mote , motte , move quickly , mullion ,
necropsy , newel , newel-post , newspaper post , note , note down ,
notify , nuncio , office , offshoot , opening , organ , pale , panelboard ,
paneling , panelwork , parcel post , park , pawn , pedestal , pedicel ,
peduncle , peel , peel tower , peristyle , perspective , picket , pier ,
pigeonhole , pilaster , pile , piling , pillar , pillbox , placard ,
place , place upon record , plank , planking , pledge , plinth , plug ,
plunge , plunk down , plyboard , plywood , pole , poll , pony up ,
portico , pose , posit , position , post bills , post day , post up ,
postal service , postboy , poster , postmortem ,
postmortem examination , postrider , press on , press-agent , proclaim ,
program , promote , promulgate , prop , propagate , publicize , publish ,
puff , puncheon , push on , put , put down , put in hock , put in pawn ,
put in writing , put on paper , put on tape , put up , pylon ,
queen-post , race , rath , record , reduce to writing , register ,
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