Word Finder - post

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A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

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ram a post into the ground

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A stud; a two-by-four.

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A pole in a battery.

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A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

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(chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.

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A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.

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A goalpost.

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A location on a basketball court near the basket.

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The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

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To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

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Post no bills.

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To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

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to post someone for cowardice

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To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

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To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

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To pay (a blind).

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Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

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To put content online, usually through a publicly accessible mean, such as a video channel, gallery, message board, blog etc.

All my mail goes to a post office box.

I'll post a guard.

Josh was in his field digging fence post holes when she passed.

The reunited Shipton family stood like a Saturday Evening Post cover.

I passed the golf course, as green as an Irish post card and envied the couple strolling down the fairway.

When their lovemaking finished, Dean remained in bed, his arms folded behind his head, awaiting Ethel's return from her obligatory post coital trip to the bathroom.

I received a post card from Jeff—from Norfolk.

By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.

It's time I kick that Westlake fellow off my computer so's I can post my bargains for the world to see.

Most of the lodgers were about their daily activities, with Fred off to the post office, Maria doing her duties with her usual exuberance, and the Deans hovering close by.

The man paused, leaning against a post, and confirmed in a somewhat slurred voice that indeed he was about to take a dip.

At the age of eight he was taken in charge by an elder brother of his father, Howard Hastings, who held a post in the customs. After spending two years at a private, school at Newington Butts, he was moved to Westminster, where among his contemporaries occur the names of Lord Thurlow and Lord Shelburne, Sir Elijah Impey, and the poets Cowper and Churchill.

When they got him to the post he grew quiet, as if he suddenly understood something.

I.ll post two Immortal guards to ensure he doesn.t do anything stupid.

Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.

His first appointment was as elementary mathematical master at the gymnasium and lyceum of Cremona, and he afterwards obtained a similar post at Milan.

Cynthia accepted the news well, first on the phone amid post wedding hubbub, and the next day when he met her stepping off the plane.

First off, I have to go to the Post Office.

He helped her into the saddle, which was entirely unnecessary, and then lifted a coiled rope from the fence post.

In 467 the emperor Anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the post of prefect of Rome, and afterwards to the dignity of a patrician and senator.

He hoped to see further service, but the queen was opposed to this, and he was removed from the navy, and given the honorary post of colonel-general of hussars.

Ministers were naturally anxious to obtain the reversion to his vacant post, and Indian affairs formed at this time the hinge on which party politics turned.

It has post and telegraph offices and a lively trade in wool, cotton and dry fruits (almonds, pistachios).

It is difficult to trace the names of some of the mayors of the palace, the post being of almost no significance in, the time of Gregory of Tours.

The head of the college, the abbe Antoine Faure, who was from the same part of the country as himself, befriended the lad, and continued to do so for many years after he had finished his course, finding him pupils and ultimately obtaining for him the post of tutor to the young duke of Chartres, afterwards the regent duke of Orleans.

The withdrawal of Mersenne in 1614 to a post in the provinces was the signal for Descartes to abandon social life and shut himself up for nearly two years in a secluded house of the faubourg St Germain.

For an instant Descartes seems to have concurred in the plan of purchasing a post at Chatellerault, but he gave up the idea, and settled in Paris (June 1625), in the quarter where he had sought seclusion before.

In 1668 the duke of Montausier procured for him the post of lecteur to the dauphin.

Avicenna, however, remained hidden for forty days in a sheik's house, till a fresh attack of illness induced the amir to restore him to his post.

In 1867 he became governor of Turkestan, and held the post until his death, making himself a name in the expansion of the empire in central Asia.

The Post Office at the same time established several telephone exchanges in provincial towns so as to enable the PostmasterGeneral " to negotiate with the telephone companies in a satisfactory manner for licences."

At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement.

Dean eased into the latest news by first telling of Winston's unsuccessful inquiry about a Post Office forwarding address before mentioning his conversation with Mrs. Glass.

Dean moved behind a post, trying to get what little privacy the squad room and the length of his phone cord allowed.

This last post left him plenty of leisure, which he used for travelling and cultivating the society of interesting people, a taste which earned him the title of Monsignore Ubique.

Wade was appointed to the post of collector in the first instance, and after a short tenure of office was succeeded by Mr II.

The establishment of a post office in the town helped the town attract new businesses.

The main road system, which dates from 1828, previous to which there were only tracks, is good, and the roads well engineered; many of them are traversed daily by post vehicles.

In 1864 he went as Hessian envoy to Vienna, retiring in 1872 when the post was abolished.

It seems, however, to have had some importance as a post station.

In general, Aquinas maintained in different senses the real existence of universals ante rem, in re and post rem.

His mother was a native of the place; his father, a Persian from Balkh, filled the post of tax-collector in the neighbouring town of Harmaitin, under Nall II.

Sebastian Cabot had in 151 9 deserted England for Spain, and had received from King Charles the post of pilot-major formerly held by Juan de Solis.

The sub-prefect then selects from this list ten of whom he approves for the post.

The principal square is the Plaza de Bolivar, the conventional centre of the city, in which stands a bronze equestrian statue of Bolivar, and on which face the cathedral, archbishop's residence, Casa Amarilla, national library, general post office and other public offices.

In England this power was frequently employed during the 18th century and was confirmed by the Post Office Act of 1837; its most notorious use being, perhaps, the opening of Mazzini's letters in 1844.

From 1879 to 1884 he was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in the university of Cambridge, in succession to Clerk Maxwell; and in 1887 he accepted the post of professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, which he resigned in 1905.

The Postmaster-General (Mr Fawcett) declared that he would issue no more licences unless the licensees agreed to sell telephones to the Post Office.

The Post Office proposed to engage in active competition with the telephone companies, but the Treasury at that time opposed this policy on the ground that the state should at most be ready to supplement and not to supersede private enterprise.

The licences within restricted areas having proved unsuitable for the growing business, public opinion appealed to the Post Office to issue new licences applicable to the whole country.