Word Finder - posts

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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.

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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.

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A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

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a stage or railway post

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A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

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Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

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An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

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sent via post; parcel post

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A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.

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A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.

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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.

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Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

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Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

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One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

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To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.

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To travel quickly; to hurry.

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To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.

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Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

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(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

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To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

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I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

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An assigned station; a guard post.

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An appointed position in an organization, job.

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To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.

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To assign to a station; to set; to place.

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Post a sentinel in front of the door.

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A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).

The porch posts were black metal with a filigree design.

From the middle of the 18th century the ancestors of Ferdinand de Lesseps followed the diplomatic career, and he himself occupied with real distinction several posts in the same calling from 1825 to 1849.

Toselli and all but three officers and 300 men fell at their posts after a desperate resistance.

On the 29th of October, however, Austria abandoned her military posts in the sandjak of Novibazar, and the frontier between Austria and Turkey, formerly an uncertain one, which left Austria a half-open back door to the Aegean, was now a distinct line of demarcation.

The capitania of Pernambuco was ably governed and took an active part in the expulsion of the French from the trading posts established along the coast northward to Maranhao, and in establishing Portuguese colonies in their places.

During the American War of Independence he gave valuable aid to the United States; and when Spain finally joined in the war against Great Britain, Galvez, in a series of energetic and brilliant campaigns (1779-1781), captured all the important posts in the British colony of West Florida.

The latter course was decided upon, and during the first months of 1910 the advanced posts were withdrawn and the British administration confined to the coast towns.

In support of this decision it was urged that it was no good pursuing people whom it was impossible to catch, that the isolated posts in the interior had not been able to protect the friendly tribes; and that the semi-desert nature of the country did not justify any attempt at economic development.

In private service superior posts were often filled by freedmen; the higher arts - as medicine, grammar, painting - were partly in the hands of freedmen and even of ingenui; the more successful actors and gladiators were often freedmen.

In April Lord Rosmead resigned his posts of high commissioner for South Africa and governor of Cape Colony.

Each of the inspectorates is divided into districts, each district having, in addition to the chief settlement or coloni, several outlying posts and Eskimo hunting stations, each presided over by an udligger, who is responsible to the colonibestyrer, or superintendent of the district.

The mandarins are nominated by the king and their children have a position at court, and are generally chosen to fill the vacant posts in the administration.

The goal, which is well preserved at the upper end, is similar to that at Olympia; it consists of a sill of stone sunk level with the ground, with parallel grooves for the feet of the runners at starting, and sockets to hold the posts that separated the spaces assigned to the various competitors, and served as guides to them in running.

In 1679 Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (Duluth), as agent for a company of Canadian merchants which sought to establish trading posts on the Lakes, explored the country from the head of Lake Superior to Mille Lacs and planted the arms of Louis XIV.

But none of the French posts was permanent, and in 1763 French rule came to an end, the Treaty of November (1762) and the Treaty of Versailles (1763) transferring respectively the western portion of the state to Spain and that part east of the Mississippi river to Great Britain.

Hill on the 14th and 15th of February, after a combat at Garris, drove the French posts beyond the Joyeuse; and Wellington then pressed these troops back over the Bidouze and Gave' de Mauleon to the Gave d'Oleron.

The whole machinery of government was centralized at the Hague, and Dutchmen filled nearly all the principal posts.

After filling clerical posts in Leipzig, he became Prediger (preacher) in Vienna in 1856.

The appointment, criticised at the time as withdrawing from the regular diplomatic corps one of its most coveted posts, proved a great success.

After holding minor educational posts, he obtained in 1791, through the influence of Herder, the appointment of rector of the gymnasium at Weimar, where he entered into a circle of literary men, including Wieland, Schiller, and Goethe.

The military posts were drawn up in echelon along the frontier of the desert, especially along the southern slopes of the Aures, as far as Ad Majores (Besseriani), and on the Tripolitan frontier as far as Cydamus (Ghadames), forming an immense arc extending from Cyrenaica to Mauretania.

In order to provide a supply of competent officers, each eques was required to fill certain subordinate posts, called militiae equestres.

After the completion 'of their preliminary military service, the equites were eligible for a number of civil posts, chiefly those with which the emperor himself was closely concerned.

Certain official posts, of which it would have been inadvisable to deprive senators, could thus be bestowed upon the promoted equites..

The emperor Claudius tentatively entrusted certain posts connected with these to the equites; in the time of Hadrian this became the regular custom.

It throve especially among military posts, and in the track of trade, where its monuments have been discovered in greatest abundance.

But the appetite for power of the "less people" and the dregs of the populace was whetted rather than satisfied by the installation of the riformatori in the principal posts of authority.

Revenue is derived chiefly from customs and excise, railways, land sales, posts and telegraphs and a capitation tax.

The chief sources of revenue are customs, mining royalties, railways, native revenue (poll tax and passes), posts and telegraphs, stamp and transfer duties, land revenue and taxes on trades and professions.

The principal heads of expenditure are on railways and other public works, including posts and telegraphs, justice, education, police, land settlement and agriculture generally, mines and native affairs.

The railway communications were constantly damaged, isolated posts and convoys captured, and the raiders always seemed able to avoid contact with the columns sent in pursuit.

From Bothaville De Wet made for Thaba Nchu, where the Bloemfontein garrison held a cordon of posts.

Pursued closely and finding the rivers in flood De Wet hid some of his men under Kritzinger near the Orange and himself doubled back, traversing again the line of posts east of Bloemfontein.

At the close of 1900 the commandos under the direct influence of Louis Botha attacked the railway posts on the Middelburg railway and captured Helvetia.

The establishment of a line of defensive posts between Bloemfontein and Ladybrand, though De Wet had three times traversed it, had given Blockhouse Policy.

In the meantime, while these posts were under construction, the harrying of the commandos by mobile columns was continued.

In the south-eastern Transvaal Botha made a new effort to invade Natal, but, although he captured 300 men and three guns in an action on the 17th of September at Blood River Poort near Vryheid, his plans were rendered abortive by his failure to reduce the posts of Mount Prospect and Fort Itala in Zululand, which he attacked on the 26th, and he only escaped with difficulty from the converging columns sent against him.

The difference in technical methods and the historical evolution of teaching posts (for in all civilized countries the progress of biological knowledge has been very closely associated with the existence of institutions for the diffusion of knowledge and for professional education) have been the chief contributory causes to this practical confusion.

In consequence of this James was forced to resign his posts.

Catholics were now admitted to the chief offices in the army, and to some important posts in the state, in virtue of the dispensing power of James.

The department of fomento is charged with the supervision of all matters relating to agriculture, stock-raising, mines, industries, commerce, statistics, immigration, public lands, posts, telegraphs and telephones.

These posts were generally given to officers who were retiring from the sea.

In September 1901 Louis Botha made an attempt to invade Natal by way of Zululand, but the stubborn defence made by the small posts at Itala and Prospect Hill, both within the Zulu border, caused him to give up the project.

The Turkish posts about the lower spurs were in some cases surprised.

From 1879 till 1885 he was minister of posts and telegraphs, and in January 1888 he was elected to the senate.

On completing his legal studies he entered the service of the state in 1837; and after holding a series of minor posts was transferred in 1848 to the ministry of commerce, which was to be the sphere of his real life's work.

Artificial shading, first by laths, and later by cheesecloth, both supported on posts, was then resorted to with eminently satisfactory results.

The annual pilgrim caravan or haj, numbering some 6000 people with Io,000 pack animals, is escorted by a few Turkish irregulars known as agel; small fortified posts have been established at the regular halting-places some 30 m.

The military posts were everywhere besieged, and Sana, the capital, was cut off from all communication with the coast.

The necessity of seeking protection from the sea-rovers and pirates who infested these waters during the whole period of Hanseatic supremacy, the legal customs, substantially alike in the towns of North Germany, which governed the groups of traders in the outlying trading posts, the establishment of common factories, or "counters"(Komtors) at these points, with aldermen to administer justice and to secure trading privileges for the community of German merchants - such were some of the unifying influences which preceded the gradual formation of the League.