post

ram a post into the ground

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

(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.

vocal music; chiefly a cappella; vocal music; chiefly a cappella

(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.

But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:

A location on a basketball court near the basket.

when God ſends coyne,
I will diſcharge your poaſt

1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:

(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

shtyllë

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .


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Post no bills.

(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

to post someone for cowardice

On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

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?

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:

(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273:

To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.

to post bail

For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail.

2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo, →ISBN:

Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.

2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz, Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

Carmen posted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.

2006 05, Robert Perry, Dirty Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:

When you post bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.

1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker, Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 201:

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

Chinese: po


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(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.

a stage or railway post

(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others

1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.

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:

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.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:

(now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

sent via post; parcel post

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.

1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:

(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.

A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.

Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

(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.

And then in post he came from Mantua.

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:

(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:

(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

→ Bulgarian: пост (post) (Internet)

→ Chinese: po, PO

Cantonese: pou¹

Mandarin: pōu

Min Nan: pho͘

→ French: post

→ Irish: post

→ Italian: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Maori: pōhi

→ Polish: post

→ Portuguese: post

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Scottish Gaelic: post

→ Spanish: post

→ Swahili: posta

→ Welsh: post

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).


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Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

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:

To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.

Post speedily to my lord your husband.

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:

thousand at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.

c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13

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.

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.

(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

→ Finnish: postata


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His highness comes post from Marseilles,

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]:

In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

We therefore determined to change Horses at the next Town and to travel Post the remainder of the Journey.

1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:

He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding 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:

With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

German: posten

по пощата

with the post, on post horses; express, with speed


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From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

As hard as this may seem for some people to understand, my adamant stand in favor of President Clinton leaving his post was not personal.

2005, Jesse Helms, “Bill Clinton”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

An appointed position in an organization, job.


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To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.

Post a sentinel in front of the door.

[I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]

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:

To assign to a station; to set; to place.


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One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian:

Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian:

After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.


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we'll fix it in post

Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:


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I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.

2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:

(medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).