1. post - Noun
2. post - Adjective
3. post - Verb
4. post - Adverb
5. post - Preposition
7. Post - Proper noun
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
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.
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.
An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.
Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
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.
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Source: Webster's dictionarypost.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. Joseph Addison
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. Louis L'Amour
Because of a period, Martin lost his post. Italian Proverb
A protruding post is hammered down. Japanese Proverb
The post of honor is the post of danger. Latin Proverb