noun
- A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
- synonyms: waiting line
- Information processing. ( an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)
- A braid of hair at the back of the head.
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noun
- The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand.
- usage: "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station"
- synonyms: station
- Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed.
- usage: "this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an officer's club on the post"
- synonyms: military post
- A job in an organization.
- usage: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
- An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position.
- usage: "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them"
- United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935.
- synonyms: Wiley Post
- United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960.
- synonyms: Emily Post, Emily Price Post
- United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914.
- synonyms: C. W. Post, Charles William Post
- Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered.
- usage: "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me"; "she was opening her post"
- synonyms: mail
- A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track. )
- usage: "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake"
- synonyms: stake
- The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office.
- usage: "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'"
- synonyms: mail, mail service, postal service
- The delivery and collection of letters and packages.
- usage: "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the post"
verb
- Affix in a public place or for public notice.
- usage: "post a warning"
- Publicize with, or as if with, a poster.
- usage: "I'll post the news on the bulletin board"
- Assign to a post; put into a post.
- usage: "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu"
- Assign to a station.
- Display, as of records in sports games.
- Enter on a public list.
- Transfer (entries) from one account book to another.
- synonyms: carry
- Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
- Mark with a stake.
- usage: "stake out the path"
- synonyms: stake
- Place so as to be noticed.
- usage: "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump"
- synonyms: put up
- Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.
- usage: "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
- Mark or expose as infamous.
- usage: "She was branded a loose woman"
- synonyms: brand
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- A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, especially Indians of the Koluschan stock.
- (n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
- (v.t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
- (n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- (v.i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- (n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed or fixed; a station.
- (adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
- (a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
- (n.) A station, office or position of service, trust or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
- (v.t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
- (v.t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
- (v.t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion or the like.
- (v.t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
- (n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
- (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
It the transfer of accounting entries from a journal of original entry into a ledger book, in chronological order according to when they were generated.