Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 99
Post (v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. "Post seedily to my lord your husband." -- Shak.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest. -- Milton.
Post (v. i.) (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]
Post (adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Post (n.) The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" [syn: post, station].
Post (n.) Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed; "this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an officer's club on the post" [syn: military post, post].
Post (n.) A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation].
Post (n.) An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them".
Post (n.) United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935) [syn: Post, Wiley Post].
Post (n.) United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) [syn: Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post].
Post (n.) United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914) [syn: Post, C. W. Post, Charles William Post].
Post (n.) Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post" [syn: mail, post].
Post (n.) A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake" [syn: post, stake].
Post (n.) The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'" [syn: mail, mail service, postal service, post].
Post (n.) The delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the post".
Post (v.) Affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning".
Post (v.) Publicize with, or as if with, a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board".
Post (v.) Assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu".
Post (v.) Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place].
Post (v.) Display, as of records in sports games.
Post (v.) Enter on a public list.
Post (v.) Transfer (entries) from one account book to another [syn: post, carry].
Post (v.) Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
Post (v.) Mark with a stake; "stake out the path" [syn: stake, post].
Post (v.) Place so as to be noticed; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: post, put up].
Post (v.) Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail, post, send].
Post (v.) Mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman" [syn: post, brand].
POST, () Power-On Self-Test
Post (v.) To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup. Distinguished in context from mail; one might ask, for example: ?Are you going to post the patch or mail it to known users??
Post, () To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup. Usually implies that the message is sent indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to "mail" which implies one or more deliberately selected individual recipients.
You should only post a message if you think it will be of interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the group or list, otherwise you should use private electronic mail instead. See netiquette.
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Power-on self-test
POST
(POST) A sequence of diagnostic tests that are run automatically by a device when the power is turned on.
In a personal computer a typical POST sequence does the following:
- Checks that the system board is working.
- Checks that the memory is working.
- Compares the current system configuration with that recorded by the PC's configuration program to see if anything has been added or removed or broken.
- Starts the video operation.
- Checks that the diskette drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, and any other drives that may be installed are working.
When POST is finished, typically it will beep, and then let your operating system start to boot. If POST finds an error, it may beep more than once (or possibly not at all if it is your PC speaker that is broken) and display a POST error message. These messages are often nothing more than a single ominous number. Some common numbers and their meanings are: 161 Dead battery (get a new battery for the system board) 162 Configuration changed (you added some memory or a new card to the PC) 301 Keyboard error (take the book off the corner of the keyboard) Because a successful POST indicates that the system is restored to known state, turning the power off and on is a standard way to reset a system whose software has hung.
Compare 120 reset, Big Red Switch, power cycle.
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Post, () A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times.
Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464.
Post, () This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4).
POST. () After. When two or more alienations or descents have taken place between an original intruder ant or defendant in a writ of entry, the writ is said to be in the post, because it states that the tenant had not entry unless after the ouster of the original intruder. 3 Bl. Com. 182. See Entry, limit of.
Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
Postable (a.) Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.
Postact (n.) An act done afterward.
Postage (n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
Postal (a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Postanal (a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
Postaxial (a.) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
Postboy (n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.
Postboy (n.) A boy who carries letters from the post.
Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.
Postcavae (n. pl. ) of Postcava
Postcava (n.) The inferior vena cava.
Postclavicle (n.) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.
Postcode (n.)【英】郵遞區號；郵政編碼 A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail [syn: ZIP code, ZIP, postcode, postal code].
Postcommissure (n.) A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.
Postcomminion (n.) The concluding portion of the communion service.
Postcomminion (n.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
Postcornua (n. pl. ) of Postcornu
Postcornu (n.) The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Postcoital (a.) 性交後的 Occurring or done after sexual intercourse.
‘Postcoital contraception.’
Postcoital (a.) 性交後的；交媾後的 Occurring or existing after sexual intercourse.
Compare: Contraception
Contraception (n.) 避孕（法）；節育；積極阻礙生育手段 The deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sexual intercourse. The major forms of artificial contraception are barrier methods, of which the most common is the condom; the contraceptive pill, which contains synthetic sex hormones that prevent ovulation in the female; intrauterine devices, such as the coil, which prevent the fertilized ovum from implanting in the uterus; and male or female sterilization.
‘One of the most important methods of contraception.’
‘It had been her first time, they didn't use any contraception.’
Post crash fire (ph.) 失事後引起的大火 Post crash fire are fires which occur after an aircraft has crash landed or has impacted obstacles or other aircraft during ground movement, runway incursion, or runway excursion.
Postdated (imp. & p. p.) of Postdate
Postdating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postdate
Postdate (v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.
Postdate (v. t.) To affix a date to after the event.
Postdate (a.) Made or done after the date assigned.
Postdate (n.) A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.
Postdiluvial (a.) Alt. of Postdiluvian
Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.
Postdiluvian (n.) One who lived after the flood.
Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.
Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.
Postdoctoral (a.) 博士後的 (Also informal Postdoc.) Relating to advanced work or study that someone does after completing their PhD.
// Her postdoctoral project.
// A postdoctoral student/ fellow.
Postea (n.) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.
Postel (n.) Apostle.
Postencephalon (n.) The metencephalon.
Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.
Postentry (n.) An additional or subsequent entry.
Poster (n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
Poster (n.) One who posts bills; a billposter.
Poster (n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." -- Shak.
Poster (n.) A post horse. "Posters at full gallop." -- C. Lever.
Poster (n.) A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card].
Poster (n.) Someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards [syn: bill poster, poster, bill sticker].
Poster (n.) A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers [syn: post horse, post-horse, poster].
Posterior (a.) [Z] 後面的；尾部的；背部的 [B]；較晚的，以後的 [F] [（+to）]；其次的；【植】近莖軸一側的，後面的 Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
Posterior (a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
Posterior (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
Posterior (a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
Posterior (n.) 【文】【幽】後部；臀部 [C] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}].
Posterior (n.) 後牙 A tooth situated at the back of the mouth [syn: {back tooth}, {posterior}].
Posteriority (n.) 後天性；在後 The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
Posteriorly (adv.) Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
Posteriors (n. pl.) The hinder parts, as of an animal's body.
Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
Postern (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
Postern (n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
Postern (a.) Back; being behind; private.
Postero () - (?). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side. Postexilian
Compare: Posterior
Posterior (a.) [Anatomy] [Z] 後面的；尾部的；背部的 [B]；較晚的，以後的 [F] [（+to）]；其次的 Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end.
‘The posterior part of the gut.’
The opposite of anterior.
‘A basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus.’
Posterior (a.) [Medicine] Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
‘A posterior labour.’
Posterior (a.) [Formal] Coming after in time or order; later.
‘A date posterior to the first Reform Bill.’
Posterior (n.) [Humorous]【文】【幽】後部；臀部[C] A person's buttocks.
Compare: Anterior
Anterior (a.) [Technical] 前面的，前部的；以前的；較早的 [（+to）]；（邏輯上）在前的 Nearer the front, especially in the front of the body, or nearer to the head or forepart.
‘The veins anterior to the heart.’
The opposite of posterior
Anterior (a.) [Botany] (Of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the main stem.
‘One anterior petal is missing as well as a posterior stamen.’
‘Usually the lateral stamens emerge first, then the anterior stamen.’
Anterior (a.) [Phonetics] Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
‘Over time the tension in the pronunciation of the consonant was relieved by beginning to pronounce it further and further forward in the mouth, anticipating the high anterior pronunciation of the vowel.’
Anterior (a.) [Formal] Coming before in time; earlier.
‘An incident anterior to her troubles.’
Postexist (v. i.) To exist after; to live subsequently.
Postexistence (n.) Subsequent existence.
Postexistent (a.) Existing or living after.
Postfact (a.) Relating to a fact that occurs after another.
Postfact (n.) A fact that occurs after another.
Postfactum (n.) Same as Postfact.
Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.
Postfixes (n. pl. ) of Postfix
Postfix (n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.
Postfix (v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.
Postfrontal (a.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.
Postfrontal (n.) A postfrontal bone.
Postfurcae (n. pl. ) of Postfurca
Postfurca (n.) One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
Postgeniture (n.) The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.
Postglenoid (a.) Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
Posthaste (adv.) With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste. -- Shak.
Posthaste (n.) Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. -- Shak.
Posthaste (adv.) (Old-fashioned formal) 儘快地，急忙地 As fast as possible.
// They travelled posthaste to Rome to collect the award.
Posthetomy (n.) Circumcision.
Posthouse (n.) A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
Posthouse (n.) A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
Posthume (a.) Alt. of Posthumed
Posthumed (a.) Posthumous.
Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
Posthumous (a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
Posthumous (a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
Posthumously (adv.) In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
Postic (a.) Backward.
Postticous (a.) Posterior.
Postticous (a.) Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.
Postil (n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.
Postil (n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
Postil (v. t.) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
Postiled (imp. & p. p.) of Postil
Postilled () of Postil
Postiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Postil
Postilling () of Postil
Postil (v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
Postiler (n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.
Postilion (n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. [Written also postillion.]
Postilion (n.) Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) [syn: postilion, postillion].
Postillate (v. t.) To explain by marginal notes; to postil.
Postillate (v. i.) To write postils; to comment.
Postillate (v. i.) To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.
Postillation (n.) The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
Postillator (n.) One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
Posttiller (n.) See Postiler.