Definition of "post"

post¹

/pəʊst/

noun
plural posts
1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
  Quotations
  But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.
  2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎
8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
  Quotations
  when God ſends coyne, I will diſcharge your poaſt
  1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs
10. The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
verb
third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted
1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
  Quotations
  On Pain of being posted to your SorrowFail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.
  1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13
3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
  Quotations
  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, […], page 18
4. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
  Quotations
  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
5. (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
  1. (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
  2. (law) To pay bail.
    Quotations
    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
    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, 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, 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, page 201

post²

/pəʊst/

noun
plural posts
1. (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.
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
  Quotations
  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, [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
5. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
  Quotations
  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
6. (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.
  Quotations
  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
7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
8. (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.
9. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
  Quotations
  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, [Act V, scene iii], line 273
10. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
  Quotations
  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
verb
third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted
1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
  Quotations
  Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].
  1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones
2. To travel quickly; to hurry.
  Quotations
  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, [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
3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
adverb
not comparable
1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
  Quotations
  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, [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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
  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, pages 134–135
2. Sent via the postal service.

post³

/pəʊst/

noun
plural posts
1. An assigned station; a guard post.
  Quotations
  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
2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
  Quotations
  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, 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
verb
third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted
1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
  Quotations
  [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, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, page 116

post⁴

/pəʊst/

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

post⁵

/pəʊst/

noun
uncountable
1. (film, informal) Post-production.
  Quotations
  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

post⁶

/pəʊst/

noun
plural posts
1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
  Quotations
  I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.
  2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306

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