post
noun
[ pəʊst ]
• a long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker.
• "follow the blue posts until the track meets a road"
Similar:
pole,
stake,
upright,
shaft,
prop,
support,
picket,
strut,
pillar,
pale,
paling,
column,
piling,
standard,
stanchion,
pylon,
stave,
rod,
newel,
baluster,
jamb,
bollard,
mast,
fence post,
gatepost,
finger post,
king post,
milepost,
palisade,
puncheon,
shore,
• a piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application.
• "in a recent post, he cautioned investors to be wary of these predictions"
post
verb
• display (a notice) in a public place.
• "a curt notice had been posted on the door"
Similar:
affix,
attach,
fasten,
hang,
display,
pin (up),
put up,
stick (up),
tack (up),
nail (up),
• announce or publish (something, especially a financial result).
• "the company posted a £460,000 loss"
• (of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result).
• "Smith and Lamb posted a century partnership"
Origin:
Old English, from Latin postis ‘doorpost’, later ‘rod, beam’, probably reinforced in Middle English by Old French post ‘pillar, beam’ and Middle Dutch, Middle Low German post ‘doorpost’.
post
noun
• the official service or system that delivers letters and parcels.
• "winners will be notified by post"
• each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.
post
verb
• send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system.
• "I've just been to post a letter"
• (in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger.
• "post the transaction in the second column"
• travel with relays of horses.
• "we posted in an open carriage"
post
adverb
• with haste.
• "come now, come post"
Origin:
early 16th century (in sense 2 of the noun): from French poste, from Italian posta, from a contraction of Latin posita, feminine past participle of ponere ‘to place’.
post
noun
• a position of paid employment; a job.
• "he resigned from the post of Foreign Minister"
• a place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out.
• "a shift worker asleep at his post"
• the status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy.
• "Captain Miller was made post in 1796"
post
verb
• send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment.
• "he was posted to Washington as military attaché"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French poste, from Italian posto, from a contraction of popular Latin positum, neuter past participle of ponere ‘to place’.
post
preposition
• subsequent to; after.
• "American poetry post the 1950s hasn't had the same impact"
Origin:
1960s: independent usage of post-.
post
noun
• work done on a film or recording after filming or recording has taken place.
• "the rest of the effects were added in post"
Origin:
1980s: short for post-production.
post-
prefix
• after in time or order.
• "post-date"
• behind in position.
Origin:
from Latin post ‘after, behind’.
