'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
Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]
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

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.

Acronyms for 'post'

From: V.E.R.A.
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