English to English
post

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adjective (a)
- Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand(noun.location)Example:
A soldier manned the entrance post.
source: wordnet30 - military installation at which a body of troops is stationed(noun.artifact)Example:
This military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby.
There is an officer's club on the post.
source: wordnet30 - an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position(noun.artifact)Example:
He set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them.
source: wordnet30 - United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered(noun.group)Example:
Is there any post for me?.
She was opening her post.
source: wordnet30 - a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)(noun.communication)Example:
A pair of posts marked the goal.
source: wordnet30 - the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office(noun.communication)Example:
In England they call mail `the post'.
source: wordnet30 - the delivery and collection of letters and packages(noun.act)Example:
It came by the first post.
If you hurry you'll catch the post.
source: wordnet30 - 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.(noun)source: webster1913
- The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.(noun)source: webster1913
adverb (r)
- With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.(adverb)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- affix in a public place or for public notice(verb.contact)Example:
Post a warning.
source: wordnet30 - publicize with, or as if with, a poster(verb.communication)Example:
I'll post the news on the bulletin board.
source: wordnet30 - assign to a post; put into a post(verb.social)Example:
The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.
source: wordnet30 - display, as of records in sports games(verb.communication)source: wordnet30
- enter on a public list(verb.social)source: wordnet30
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another(verb.possession)source: wordnet30
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait(verb.motion)source: wordnet30
- mark with a stake(verb.contact)source: wordnet30
- place so as to be noticed(verb.contact)Example:
Post a sign.
Post a warning at the dump.
source: wordnet30 - 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.(verb)source: webster1913
- To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.(verb)source: webster1913