post
see also: POST, Post
Pronunciation Etymology 1
POST
Pronunciation
Post
Proper noun
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see also: POST, Post
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Old English post and Latin postis through Old French -.
Nounpost (plural posts)
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- ram a post into the ground
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A pole in a battery.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (vocal music, chiefly, a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
- 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:
- when God ſends coyne,
I will diſcharge your poaſt
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- French: poteau
- German: Pfosten
- Italian: palo, pilastro
- Portuguese: mourão (of a fence), estaca (small), poste (big)
- Russian: столб
- Spanish: poste
post (posts, present participle posting; simple past and past participle posted)
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- Post no bills.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- to post someone for cowardice
- 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:
- On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC ↗, page 18 ↗:
- You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
- French: afficher
- German: anbringen
- Russian: приколо́ть
- Spanish: colgar, fijar
- German: anprangern
- French: poster
- German: posten, hochladen
- Italian: postare, pubblicare
- Portuguese: postar, publicar
- Russian: по́стить
- Spanish: postear
Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, feminine of posto ("placed, situated").
Nounpost (plural posts)
- (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th]
- (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
- a stage or railway post
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
- 1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:
- in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iii], line 152:
- I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:
- information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]
- sent via post; parcel post
- 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11
- I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
- (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii], line 273:
- And then in post he came from Mantua.
- (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
- 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:
- there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
- German: Posten
- French: courrier, poste
- German: Post
- Italian: posta
- Portuguese: correio, postagem
- Russian: по́чта
- Spanish: correo
- French: message, billet
- German: Beitrag
- Portuguese: post, publicação
- Russian: сообще́ние
post (posts, present participle posting; simple past and past participle posted)
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
- 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC ↗:
- Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].
- To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene vi], line 1:
- Post speedily to my lord your husband.
- c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13
- thousand at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- thousand at his bidding speed,
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
- I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
- French: poster, mettre à la poste
- German: schicken
- Portuguese: postar, publicar
- Russian: посыла́ть
- Spanish: enviar (por correo)
post (not comparable)
- With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All's Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene v]:
- His highness comes post from Marseilles,
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC ↗:
- In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.
- 1886 November 23, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC ↗, pages 134–135 ↗:
- He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.
- Sent via the postal service.
- German: postwendend, flugs (dated), schnurstracks, geschwind
- German: per Post, auf postalischem Wege
Probably from French poste.
Nounpost (plural posts)
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
post (posts, present participle posting; simple past and past participle posted)
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- Post a sentinel in front of the door.
- 1839 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC ↗, page 116 ↗:
- [I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]
- German: postieren
Borrowed from Latin post.
Preposition- After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
- 2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian:
- One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
- 2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian[https://web.archive.org/web/20080505115149/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23599518-5001641,00.html]:
- Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
post (uncountable)
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- we'll fix it in post
post (plural posts)
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem investigation of body's cause of death.
- 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:
- I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.
POST
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /poʊst/
post (plural posts)
- (computing) Acronym of power-on self-test
post (posts, present participle posting; simple past and past participle posted)
- (computing) To successfully perform a power-on self-test.
- The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.
Post
Proper noun
- (newspapers) A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, such as The Washington Post or the New York Post.
- Surname.
- A village in Iran.
- An ucomm in Crook County, Oregon, named after Walter H. Post.
- A city/county seat in Garza County, Texas, named after C. W. Post.
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