Definition of post… in English English dictionary
- POST
- Power-On Self-Test
- post
- A location on a basketball court near the basket
- post
- To send mail
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.
- post
- A method of sending mail by a relay system of horses and riders
- post
- An assigned station; a guard post
- post
- a prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes
- post
- a stud; a two-by-four
- post
- goalpost
- post
- A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to strengthen the tooth
- post
- Any mail system for sending tangible messages or parcels
sent via post; parcel post''.
- post
- With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.
- post
- A message posted in an electronic forum
- post
- sent via the postal service
- post
- A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches
- post
- To send to an electronic forum
- post
- A pole in a battery
- post
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post
- post
- An individual message or parcel sent by mail
- post
- To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review
Post no bills.
- post
- To send a message to a Usenet newsgroup or to a mailing list; to save a message on a blog
I couldn't figure it out so I posted a question on Usenet.
- post
- after; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications
Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
- post
- To pay (a blind)
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
- post box
- A box in which post can be left by the sender to be picked up by a courier
Would you take these letters down to the post box please - they've already got stamps.
- post boxes
- plural form of post box
- post chaise
- A horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four wheels, historically used to transport mail and passengers
She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;.
- post count
- The number of messages written by a user on an internet forum or message board
- post festum
- after the fact; too late
- post game
- The commentary of sportscasters after a professional sports event
- post game
- Of or pertaining to the time after a sports game, especially the commentary of sportscasters after a professional game
- post games
- plural form of post game
- post hoc
- An instance of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, in which temporal order is confused with causation
- post hoc
- after the fact
- post hocs
- plural form of post hoc
- post horn
- a valveless cylindrical brass or copper instrument with cupped mouthpiece, used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach
- post meridiem
- after noon, in the afternoon
We reached that amiable town around two hours post meridiem, exceedingly hungry from our anxieties en route.
- post mold
- Evidence of a post (presumably of wood) hole location, discerned during archeological excavation from differences (color, texture, constituents, etc.) of soil in the cavity compared with surrounding matrix soil. The cavity, serving as a mold for the soil and debris (the fill soil) from ambient natural erosion and weathering, became filled over time, indicating the approximate shape of the erstwhile post
- post mortem
- Occurring after death
The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
- post mortem
- Any investigation after something considered unsuccessful, especially used of meetings, games and sports, software development, and projects of any kind
- post mortem
- An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
- post mortems
- plural form of post mortem
- post oak bluff
- A type of bluff in no limit poker, where an individual bets a small amount to suggest that she has a strong hand and would like to be called
- post oak bluffs
- plural form of post oak bluff
- post office
- A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc
- post office
- An organisation that delivers letters (for example, Canada Post, Royal Mail, United States Postal Service)
- post office
- A children's game
- post offices
- plural form of post office
- post scripts
- plural form of post script
- post scriptum
- Written afterwards; appended
Have you ever written “PS” at the end of a letter? If so, you've used Latin words. “PS” stands for the Latin words “post scriptum”, or “after the writing”.
- post-
- after, later
- post-
- behind
- post-apocalyptic
- Of or pertaining to the post-apocalyptic genre
Stephen King is an author of post-apocalyptic fiction.
- post-apocalyptic
- Of or pertaining to the events after the apocalypse
- post-apocalyptic
- The genre of fiction taking place after the apocalypse
- post-chaise
- Alternative form of post chaise
- post-decrement
- A decrement operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being decremented
- post-decrement
- To perform such an operation upon
- post-haste
- quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
- post-haste
- Very great hurry
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land..
- post-increment
- To perform such an operation upon
- post-increment
- An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented
- post-kinetic
- Following destructive warfare
we work with the Special Forces on post-kinetic security.
- post-lingual deafness
- The contracting of deafness after acquiring a first language
- post-match
- Happening after a match
- post-modern
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism
- post-mortem
- Alternative spelling of post mortem
- post-nasal drip
- The accumulation in the throat or back of the nose of excessive mucus produced by the sinuses
- post-operative
- Soon after surgery
The post-operative procedure is as follows.
- post-operative
- Like someone who has recently had surgery
She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
- post-oral
- Alternative spelling of postoral
- post-order
- Alternative spelling of postorder
- post-ovulation
- Pertaining to the period immediately after ovulation
Progesterone concentrations rise rapidly in the mare and any post-ovulation treatment carries an increased risk of uterine contamination.
- post-ovulation
- After ovulation
Surgeries could be scheduled on day 10 or 14 post ovulation of a regular menstrual cycle.
- post-partum
- Pertaining to the period immediately after childbirth
- post-processing
- processing after other processes have been completed
- post-production
- The stages of film production happening between the actual filming and the completed film
- post-rock
- A genre of music which uses rock instrumentation for "non-rock" purposes, often producing songs which are akin to rock music, yet still very different
- post-structuralism
- A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- any condition that develops following some stressful situation or event; such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, withdrawal or lack of concentration
- post-war
- pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict
- post
- pref. after, later, subsequent to
- post
- {v} to hasten, station, put, expose, delay, carry accounts to a ledger
- post
- {n} a messenger, office, place, piece of timber, a species of paper, letter paper
- post-knight
- A person who will testify to anything for the right price
- post-office
- {n} a place where letters are delivered for conveyance, or received from a distance
- post festum
- (Latin) After the festival
- post festum
- (Latin) Too late, or after the fact
- post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) which assumes or asserts that if one event happens after another, then the first must be the cause of the second. It is often shortened to simply post hoc and is also sometimes referred to as false cause or coincidental correlation. It is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc, in which the chronological ordering of a correlation is insignificant
- post-closing
- Post-closing literally means after closing. It's a catch all phrase for jobs or tasks that take place AFTER the actual closing. Post-closing includes the final takedown/bringdown of title and recordation of documents, the issuance of title policies, disbursement of funds not disbursed at the closing table, stuff like that
- post-fordism
- (Ekonomi) The theory that modern industrial production should change from the large-scale mass-production methods pioneered by Henry Ford towards the use of small flexible manufacturing units
- post-hoc
- (adv. & adj.) In or of the form of an argument in which one event is asserted to be the cause of a later event simply by virtue of having happened earlier: coming to conclusions post hoc; post hoc reasoning
- post-tax
- (of income or profits) remaining after the deduction of taxes
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- (Tıp, İlaç) A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock