'POST' definitions:
Definition of 'post'
From: WordNet
noun
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: post, station]
noun
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, post]
noun
A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]
noun
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"
noun
United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935) [syn: Post, Wiley Post]
noun
United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) [syn: Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post]
noun
United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914) [syn: Post, C. W. Post, Charles William Post]
noun
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, post]
noun
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: post, stake]
noun
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, post]
noun
The delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the post"
verb
Affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning"
verb
Publicize with, or as if with, a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board"
verb
Assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu"
verb
verb
Display, as of records in sports games
verb
Enter on a public list
verb
Transfer (entries) from one account book to another [syn: post, carry]
verb
Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
verb
Mark with a stake; "stake out the path" [syn: stake, post]
verb
Place so as to be noticed; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: post, put up]
verb
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, post, send]
verb
Mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman" [syn: post, brand]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. [1913 Webster]
- I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] "In post he came." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. [1913 Webster]
- The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. [1913 Webster]
- On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
- Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Post'
From: GCIDE
- Post \Post\, adv. With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'post'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'POST'
From: Easton
- Post
- A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464.
- This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4).
Synonyms of 'post'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Hermes,
- 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,
- Iris,
- 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,
- Mercury,
- 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,
- Paul Revere,
- pawn,
- pedestal,
- pedicel,
- peduncle,
- peel,
- peel tower,
- peristyle,
- perspective,
- Pheidippides,
- 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,
- PP,
- 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,
- RD,
- record,
- reduce to writing,
- register,
- registered mail,
- remit,
- retail store,
- RFD,
- role,
- run,
- runner,
- rural delivery,
- rural free delivery,
- rush,
- rush through,
- safehold,
- salon,
- Samson post,
- scamper,
- schedule,
- scoot,
- score,
- scour,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- sea mail,
- seapost,
- seat,
- second job,
- sell,
- send,
- send away,
- send forth,
- send off,
- send out,
- service,
- set,
- set down,
- shaft,
- shake,
- sheathing,
- sheathing board,
- sheeting,
- shingle,
- ship,
- shoot,
- shop,
- shore,
- sideboard,
- siding,
- signpost,
- situate,
- situation,
- skedaddle,
- slab,
- slat,
- snubbing post,
- socle,
- softwood,
- special delivery,
- special handling,
- spiel,
- splat,
- spot,
- spout,
- spurt,
- staff,
- stake,
- stalk,
- stanchion,
- stand,
- standard,
- standing,
- station,
- status,
- stave,
- stay,
- stem,
- step on it,
- stick,
- stick of wood,
- stile,
- store,
- stovewood,
- strike a balance,
- strong point,
- stronghold,
- strut,
- stump up,
- subbase,
- submit,
- supermarket,
- support,
- surbase,
- surface mail,
- tabulate,
- take down,
- tally,
- tape,
- tape-record,
- task,
- tear,
- telamon,
- tell,
- tenure,
- three-by-four,
- tickle the palm,
- timber,
- timbering,
- timberwork,
- tower,
- tower of strength,
- trading post,
- transfer,
- transmit,
- trunk,
- two-by-four,
- upright,
- vacancy,
- variety shop,
- variety store,
- venue,
- videotape,
- viewpoint,
- ward,
- warehouse,
- wareroom,
- warn,
- warrant,
- weatherboard,
- wholesale house,
- wing,
- wood,
- work,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up
Acronyms for 'POST'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Power-On Self-Test
Post, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Post, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000) :
3708
Housing Units (2000) :
1419
Land area (2000) :
3.750179 sq. miles (9.712918 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.019131 sq. miles (0.049548 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.769310 sq. miles (9.762466 sq. km)
FIPS code :
59012
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
33.191789 N, 101.380432 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
79356
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'POST'
- Post-,
- Posted,
- Posting,
- To post off,
- To post over,
- Binding post,
- Book post,
- Cossack post,
- Finger post,
- Folio post,
- Foot post,
- From pillar to post,
- Gradient post,
- Inner post,
- Iron Post,
- Jack post,
- Knight of the post,
- Middle post,
- New Post,
- Packet post,
- Painted Post,
- Parcel post,
- Pendant post,
- Penny post,
- Post Falls,
- Post and pair,
- Post and stall,
- Post bag,
- Post bill,
- Post card,
- Post chaise,
- Post coach,
- Post day,
- Post hackney,
- Post hanger,
- Post hole,
- Post horn,
- Post horse,
- Post hour,
- Post mill,
- Post note,
- Post office,
- Post road,
- Post route,
- Post town,
- Post, TX,
- Posting house,
- Powder post,
- Quoin post,
- Samson post,
- Side posts,
- Snub post,
- Snubbing post,
- Sound post,
- Sounding post,
- Starting post,
- Story post,
- Tackle post,
- To ride post,
- To travel post,
- Totem post,
- Warping post,
- Whipping post,
- Winning post,
- command post,
- corner post,
- deaf as a post,
- emily post,
- goal post,
- hinging post,
- hitching post,
- king post,
- military post,
- missionary post,
- newel post,
- observation post,
- post and lintel,
- post doc,
- post exchange,
- post hoc,
- post house,
- post meridiem,
- post oak,
- post-it,
- poste restante,
- queen post,
- registered post,
- shutting post,
- swinging post,
- telegraph post,
- trading post,
- wiley post,
- Crown-post,
- Ex post facto,
- Iron Post, OK,
- King-post,
- Lamp-post,
- New Post, WI,
- Painted Post, NY,
- Post Falls, ID,
- Post-abdomen,
- Post-captain,
- Post-disseizin,
- Post-disseizor,
- Post-fine,
- Post-impressionism,
- Post-it note,
- Post-mortem,
- Post-obit,
- Post-temporal,
- Post-tragus,
- Post-tympanic,
- Powder-posted,
- Queen-post,
- Tool-post,
- c. w. post,
- charles william post,
- emily price post,
- local post office,
- meteorological observation post,
- post-communist,
- post-free,
- post-haste,
- post-horse,
- post-impressionist,
- post-maturity,
- post-menopause,
- post-paid,
- us post office,
- Ex post facto law,
- Post Oak Bend City,
- Post-mortem examination,
- Post-obit bond,
- post-hole digger,
- post-office box,
- post-rotational nystagmus,
- powder-post termite,
- united states post office,
- Post Oak Bend City, TX,
- post hoc ergo propter hoc,
- post-office box number