Meaning of post | Babel Free

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1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
2. An assigned station; a guard post.
3. 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.
   obsolete
4. A common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, such as The Washington Post or the New York Post.
   countable, uncountable
5. Post-production.
   informal, uncountable
6. A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
   informal
7. Acronym of power-on self-test.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
8. A stud; a two-by-four.
9. To take a position below the foul line, usually with one's back to the basket to receive and make passes or to turn quickly to shoot.
10. An appointed position in an organization, job.
11. A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
    dated
12. A surname.
    countable, uncountable
13. A pole in a battery.
14. Emily Price, 1873?–1960, U.S. writer on social etiquette.
15. A village in Iran.
    countable, uncountable
16. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
17. A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
18. a prefix, occurring orig. in loanwords from Latin, meaning “after, subsequent to,” “behind, at the rear or end of” (postaxial; postmeridian; postpone; postscript); in English esp. productive in the formation of adjectives or adjective derivatives that specify a period of time following the event, phenomena, period, etc., denoted by the headword (posttraumatic; post-Darwinian; postwar).
19. An unincorporated community in Crook County, Oregon, named after Walter H. Post.
    countable, uncountable
20. Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
    historical
21. A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
22. The position played by the center on offense.
23. A city, the county seat of Garza County, Texas, named after C. W. Post.
    countable, uncountable
24. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
    Australia, New-Zealand, UK
25. A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
26. To gain (a point or points) in a game or contest:score, tally.
27. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
    Australia, New-Zealand, UK
28. A goalpost.
29. An assigned position:station.
30. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
31. To place on a list or in a record:enter, insert, record, register.
32. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
33. 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.
34. a long piece of wood, metal etc, usually fixed upright in the ground. The notice was nailed to a post; a gate-post; the winning-post. paal عَمود стълб poste sloup der Pfosten pæl; -pæl στύλοςposte post تیر pylväs poteauעמוד स्तंभ, खम्भा, खूंटा stup oszlop tonggak stólpi, póstur, staur palo 柱 기둥, 말뚝 stulpas stabs; pālis; miets tiang paalstolpe, målstreksłup تير poste stâlp столб; шест stĺp, tyč drog stub stolpe เสา direk 柱 стовп, стійка کھمبا cột 柱
    etc, usually
35. The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
    obsolete
36. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
    obsolete
37. to win. eerste by die wenpaal يَرْبَح، يَفوز печеля passar primeiro pelo ponto de chegada být první v cíli als erster das Ziel erreichen vinde τερματίζω πρώτος, κερδίζω llegar el primero a la meta võitma برنده شدن voittaa être premier au fil d'arrivée לנצח जीतना polazna točka (cilj) győz menang sigra, vera fyrstur í mark essere primo al traguardo 勝つ 선거에 (어렵게) 이기다 laimėti, nugalėti uzvarēt memenangi als eerste de eindstreep halen komme først i mål, vinne przebiec linię mety jako pierwszy, wygr...
38. The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
39. One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    obsolete
40. to give regular information to (a person). op die hoogte hou يَسْتَمِر في إعطاء المَعْلومات информирам manter (alguém) informado průběžně informovat jemanden auf dem Laufenden halten holde orienteret κρατώ κπ. ενήμερο mantener a alguien informado (kedagi) kursis hoidma در جریان فرار دادن pitää ajan tasalla tenir au courant לְהִישָאֵר מְעוּדכַּן ताजी खबरे देते रहना namještenje, služba vkit rendszeresen tájékoztat memberi informasi gefa (e-m) reglulegar upplÿsingar um tenere informato, tenere a...

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Examples

“ram a post into the ground”

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

“when God ſends coyne, I will diſcharge your poaſt”

“a stage or railway post”

“September 6th.—The English mail of the 10th of July arrived to-day, and while Mr. Hart was at the Foreign Office engaged on business with Wan-se-ang and Hang-Ki, he received his Shang-hai letters, one of which contained the news of the recapture by the Imperial forces of the cities of Woo-tu and Nan-ching, two important rebel posts.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Two of the receivers ran post patterns.”

“And then in post he came from Mantua.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“we'll fix it in post”

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

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

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