Definition of 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.
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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.
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a job in an organization (noun.act)
Example: He occupied a post in the treasury.
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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.
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United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935) (noun.person)
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United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) (noun.person)
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United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914) (noun.person)
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any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered (noun.group)
Example: Is there any post for me?.
She was opening her post.
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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.
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the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office (noun.communication)
Example: In England they call mail `the post'.
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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.
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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.
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publicize with, or as if with, a poster (verb.communication)
Example: I'll post the news on the bulletin board.
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assign to a post; put into a post (verb.social)
Example: The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.
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assign to a station (verb.competition)
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display, as of records in sports games (verb.communication)
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enter on a public list (verb.social)
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transfer (entries) from one account book to another (verb.possession)
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ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait (verb.motion)
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mark with a stake (verb.contact)
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place so as to be noticed (verb.contact)
Example: Post a sign.
Post a warning at the dump.
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cause to be directed or transmitted to another place (verb.communication)
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mark or expose as infamous (verb.communication)
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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
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