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Definition: Post |
PostAdjective1. (prefix) coming after; "`post' is a prefix in `postmillenial' and `postgraduate'". Noun1. The position where something or someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand: "a sentry station". 2. Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed. 3. A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury". 4. Upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position. 5. 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". 6. A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track). 7. The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office. 8. The delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the post". Verb1. Affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning". 2. Publicize with, or as it with, a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board". 3. Assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu". 4. Assign to a station. 5. For example, of records, in sports. 6. Enter on a public list. 7. Transfer (entries) from one account book to another. 8. Mark with a stake; "stake out the path". 9. Put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump". 10. : cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written". 11. : mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "post" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Post \Post\, noun. [AS., from Latin postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See Position, and compare to 4th Post.]. (references) |
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Computing | 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?". Source: Jargon File. |
Bible | Post (1.) 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. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biology & Biotechnology | Piece of timber fixed firmly in an upright position as a supporting element. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | A support for formwork. A post can be made of timber or consist of various types of tubular steel constructions; in the latter case the term prop is commonly applied. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A support with one end inserted in the ground, either directly or by means of a separate base. It usually comprises a single member. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A long stout piece of timber set upright in the ground, e. g. to support something(e. g. a building)or to mark a position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | One of the uprights supporting the batts on a tunnel-kiln car. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A portion of molten refined glass which is either delivered by feeder or gathered on a gathering iron for fabrication into a glass object. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A small timber, round, half-round or square-cut, used close to the working face in mine galleries, generally as a temporary support(a column)between floor and roof. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Post means placed. (Latin, positus.) Post. A piece of timber placed in the ground. A military post. A station where a man is placed, with instructions not to quit it without orders. An official post is where a man is placed in office. To post accounts is to place them under certain heads in methodical order. (Trench. Post haste. Travelling by relays of horses, or where horses are placed on the road to expedite the journey, Post office. An office where letters are placed. Post paper. So called from its watermark, a post-horn, or a post-boy blowing his horn. "The old original post [paper] with the stamp in the corner representing a post-boy riding for life, and twanging his horn."- Mrs. Gaskell: Cranford, chap. v. Stiff as a post. That is, stiff [in the ground] like a gate-post. To run your head against a post. To go to work heedlessly and stupidly, or as if you had no eyes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Rod part designed to fix flat parts at a certain separation or between the plates of a clock movement. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Rod used as a connecting member or brace. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. To bring the survey, maps, and records of a mine up to date b. A charge of ore for a smelting furnace c. Any of the distance pieces to keep apart the frames or sets in a shaft; a studdle d. A mine timber, or any upright timber, but more commonly used to refer to the uprights which support the roof crosspieces. Commonly used in metal mines instead of leg which is the coal miners' term, esp. the in the Western United States. Syn:upright e. A support fastened between the roof and the floor of a coal seam; used with certain types of mining machines or augers. f. A pillar of coal or ore. g. An item of kiln furniture. Posts, also known as props or uprights, support the horizontal bats on which ware is sent on a tunnel kiln car h. A discrete portion of bond between abrasive grains in a grinding wheel or other abrasive article. When an abrasive grain held by a post has become worn, the post should break to release the worn grain so that a fresh abrasive grain will become exposed i. A mass of slate traversed by so many joints as to be useless for building purposes.j. Any of the four vertical timbers of a square set. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Forward by wire. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Piece of metal fixed in an upright position for use especially as a stay or support. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Postal service redirects here. There is also a band called The Postal Service. The postal system is a system for transporting written documents typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages containing other matter, around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.
In principle a postal service can be private or official. Restrictions are generally placed on private systems by governments. Since the 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with postage (tax) on the article prepaid.
Worldwide the most common method of prepaying the tax is by affixing a self-adhesive postage stamp; the much less common method is to use a postage-prepaid envelope. Franking is a method of creating postage-prepaid envelopes under licence using a special machine. They are used by companies with large mail programs such as banks and direct mail companies.
In 1998 the U.S. Postal Service authorised the first tests of a secure system of sending digital franks via the Internet to be printed out on a PC printer, obviating the necessity to license a dedicated franking machine and allowing companies with smaller mail programs to make use of the option. The service provided by the U.S. Postal Service in 2003 allows the franks to printed out on special adhesive-backed labels. The system is expected to be taken up over time by postal administrations right around the world.
The world-wide postal system comprising the individual national postal systems of the world's self-governing states is co-ordinated by the Universal Postal Union, which among other things sets international postage rates, defines standards for postage stamps and operates the system of International Reply Coupons.
Since the advent of e-mail, which is usually faster, the postal system has come to be referred to in internet slang as "snail mail".
Communication via written documents that an intermediary carries from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back almost to the invention of writing. The development of a formal postal system comes much later, however. The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.
The first credible claim for the development of a real postal system comes from Assyria, but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 BC) Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to Hammurabi (1700 BC) and Saragon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary mission of this postal service, however. The role of the system as an intelligence gathering apparatus is well documented, and the service was (later) called angariae, a term that in time turned to indicate a tax system. The Old Testament (Esther, VIII) makes mention of this system: Ahasuerus, king of Medes, used couriers for communicating his decisions.
The next credible claimant to the title of first postal system is China. Claims concerning the origins of this mail system also conflict somewhat, but it is clear that an organized postal infrastructure is put in place during Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC) and that is is substantially expanded during the subsequent Han Dynasty. The origins of a Chinese mail system may go back to the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC), when Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) says "news of deeds travels faster than the mail." It may also build on a pre-existing messaging infrastructure started by the Shang Dynasty. Whatever its point of origin, the Chinese Postal Service has clear title to the world's oldest continuously operating mail system. Today's Chinese mail system is continuous with one that was probably formalized under the Qin Dynasty.
The first well documented postal service is that of Rome. Organised at the time of Augustus Caesar (62 BC-AD 14), it may also be the first true mail service. The service was called cursus publicus, and was provided with light carriages called rhedae with fast horses; additionally there was another, slower, service equipped with two-wheels carts (birolae) pulled by oxen. This service was reserved to the government's correspondence, another service for citizens was later added.
By the name of the stations in which mail was distributed and messengers' routes crossed, derives the latin name of mail, Posta (originally posata or pausata = place of rest) because in these stations messengers used to rest during their voyages. The english term "mail" is instead supposed coming from the Teutonic name for the bag used by messengers.
Another important postal service was created in the Islamic world by the caliph Moàvia; the service was called berid, by the name of the towers that were built in order to protect the roads by which couriers travelled.
Well before the Middle Ages and during them, carrier pigeons were used, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, that when taken far from its nest is able to find his way home due to a particularly developed sense of orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of the pigeon that was freed and could reach his original nest.
Mail has been transported by quite a few other methods throughout history, including dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, and even submarine.
Charlemagne extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in northern Gaul, and connected this service with the service of missi dominici.
Many religious orders had a private mail service, notably Cistercians's one connected more than 6,000 abbeys, monasteries and churches. The best organisation however was created by Teutonic Knights. The newly insitituted universities too had their private services, starting from Bologna (1158)
Popular illiteracy was accommodated through the service of scribes. Illiterates who needed to communicate dictated their messages to a scribe, another profession now quite generally disappeared.
In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und Taxis to run it. Von Thurn und Taxis' family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city states from 1290 onwards. Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806 the Thurn und Taxis postal system continued as a private organisation, continuing to exist into the postage stamp era before finally being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.
Modern mail is usually organised by national services (that in recent times are increasingly being replaced by privately-owned companies), reciprocally interconnected by international regulations (some of which still in their original 18th-century form, many others of which are set out by the Universal Postal Union), organisations and agreements.
As noted above, usually the payment for the service is settled with the attachment of a pre-paid postage stamp; when the envelope or package to which the stamp or stamps are affixed is accepted into the mail by an officer or agent of the postal service the agent usually indicates by means of a cancellation that it is no longer valid for pre-payment of postage (the exceptions being when he neglects to do this, or for stamps that are pre-cancelled and thus do not require cancellation). Stamps are also object of a particular form of collecting called philately, and often their commercial value on this specific market becomes enormously greater that the printed one, even after use. Another form of collecting regards postcards, a document written on a single robust sheet of paper, usually decorated with photographic pictures or artistic drawings on one of the sides, and short messages on a small part of the other side, that also contained the space for the address. In strict philatelic usage, the postcard is to be distinguished from the postal card, which has a pre-printed postage on the card. The fact that this communication is visible by other than the receiver, often causes the messages to be written in jargons.
Mail is quite generally protected by the secret of correspondence (secretus epistulae), meaning that no letter or other document can be read by other than the receiver (under U.S. law, this only applies to First Class Mail). This right is usually guaranteed by most national constitutions, like the Mexican Constitution. Usually special procedures are required in case correspondence has to be, openly or discreetly, controlled by police. The operations of control of the private citizens' mail is called censorship and concerns social, political, legal aspects of the civil rights. While in most cases this censorship is exceptional, military censorship of mail, particularly of soldiers at the front, is routine and almost universally applied.
The use of mail is subject to common rules and a particular etiquette. After the discovery of new communicating systems and vehicles, mail lost most of its special charm in favour of more quickly connecting systems such as the telephone, and remained as a vehicle for commercial or formal documents. It is however still widely in use in more cultivated classes for personal communication; in particular, wedding invitations are always sent by mail.
In modern times, mainly in 20th century, mail has found an evolution in vehicles using newer technologies to deliver the documents, especially through the telephone network; these new vehicles include telegram, telex, fac-simile (fax), e-mail, short-message-service (sms). There have been methods which have combined mail and some of these newer methods, such as INTELPOST, which combined facsimile transmission with overnight delivery. These vehicles commonly use a mechanical or electro-mechanical standardised writing (typing), that on the one hand makes for more efficient communication, while on the other hand makes impossible characteristics and practices that traditionally were in conventional mail, such as calligraphy.
This epoch is undoubtedly mainly dominated by mechanical writing, with a general use of no more of half a dozen standard typographic fonts from standard keyboards. However, the increased use of typewritten or computer-printed letters for personal communication and the advent of e-mail, has sparked renewed interest in calligraphy, as a letter has become more of a "special event." Long before e-mail and computer-printed letters, however, decorated envelopes, rubber stamps and artistamps formed part of the medium of mail art.
The ordinary mail service was improved in 20th century with the use of planes for a quicker delivery (air mail). The first scheduled airmail service took place between the London suburbs of Hendon and Windsor on 9 September 1911. Some methods of airmail proved ineffective, however, including the United States Postal Service's experiment with guided missiles for international mail transport (external link).
Receipts services were made available in order to grant the sender a confirmation of effective delivery.
In many countries a system of codes has been created (they are called zip codes in the United States and postal codes in most other countries), in order to facilitate the automation of operations.
A make-shift mail method after stranding on a deserted island is a message in a bottle.
Letters are often studied as an example of literature, and also in biography in the case of a famous person. A portion of the New Testament of the Bible is composed of the Apostle Paul's epistles to Christian congregations in various parts of the Roman Empire. Other famous letters include:
A style of writing, called epistolary, tells a fictional story in the form of the correspondence between two or more characters.
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
- Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mail."
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Post is a city located in Garza County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,708. It is the county seat of Garza County6.Geography
Post is located at 33°11'30" North, 101°22'50" West (33.191789, -101.380432)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.8 km² (3.8 mi²). 9.7 km² (3.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.53% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 3,708 people, 1,243 households, and 873 families residing in the city. The population density is 381.8/km² (988.8/mi²). There are 1,419 housing units at an average density of 146.1/km² (378.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 72.57% White, 5.47% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 18.69% from other races, and 2.91% from two or more races. 42.64% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,243 households out of which 34.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% are married couples living together, 13.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% are non-families. 26.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 3.17. In the city the population is spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 114.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 115.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $25,034, and the median income for a family is $29,135. Males have a median income of $26,318 versus $17,266 for females. The per capita income for the city is $11,113. 27.8% of the population and 23.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 34.2% are under the age of 18 and 25.9% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Post, Texas."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
POST | English | Polymer science and technology | Chemistry |
| POB | English | Post office box | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PostSynonyms: berth (n), mail (n), mail service (n), military post (n), office (n), position (n), postal service (n), situation (n), spot (n), stake (n), base (v), brand (v), carry (v), place (v), put up (v), send (v), station (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accounts | Verb: keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over; take stock; balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts; make accounts square, square accounts. |
Business | Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking. |
Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking. | |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
Correspondence | Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger). |
Disrepute | Impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend. |
Indication | Beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard. |
Location | Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in. |
Messenger | Mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal Express, Fedex. |
Publication | Advertise, placard; post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier. |
Punishment | Banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench; strike off the roll, unfrock; post. |
Record | Enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick off; register, enroll, inscroll; file; (store). |
Situation | Noun: situation, position, locality, locale, status, footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose. |
Transference | Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Interesting post script to that story - you know who wound up with Brad in that dark bedroom (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) No! He missed. He hit the post office next door (Always; writing credit: Chandler Sprague; David Boehm) Well, this'll sure get the job done, if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) | |
Lyrics | A normal life is borin, but superstardom's close to post mortom (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) There goes cheese, eggs, milk and Post Toasties (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) Blind when your eyes close, time me to the bed post (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6) Me under a lamp post, why I got my hand closed (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z) Post '76, Ahhhhhhhh (Man (Opposable Thumb); performing artist: The Residents) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Check Post (1974) Abachurina Post Office (1973) Post Mortem (1969) Picture to Post (1969) Command Post (1967) | |
Song Titles | Theme From "Hill Street Blues" (performing artist: Mike Post) Hill Street Blues (performing artist: Mike Post) | |
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 | Shown is page 2 of the newspaper Washington Post on August 6, 1937 just after President Roosevelt signed a bill to authorize the erection of the National Cancer Institute, with Dr. Carl Voegtlin as the Chief. Shown are photos of Drs. Carl Voegtlin, R. H. Fitch, Herbert Kaher and Thomas Parran (Surgeon General). Shown is "'Conquer Cancer' Adopted as Battle Cry of the Public Health Service.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shown is an ad from the Washington Post November 6, 1985. The ad talks about fats, vegetables, Vitamin A and C, and fiber. It states the fiber or roughage may help prevent colon cancer. It also shows the 1-800-4-CANCER phone number. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | In remote areas with little human habitation, the most appropriate action may be to post signs on the roads entering the epizootic area to warn people, and provide information on personal protection and plague prevention. Credit: CDC. |  | NIOSH, old post office building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: CDC. |
 | Gilbert T. Rude Post World War I. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Office tent at camp at Mile Post 253 on the Alcan Highway L to R: Bachtel, David Sammons, Lieutenant Commander John Bowie Eli Packer, geodetic engineer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pelicans on a post. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Loading supplies ashore from NOAA Ship SURVEYOR at Seal Island Penguin Observation Post. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The Seal Island Penguin Observation Post. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Post restoration, a site visit. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Beach Post" by Jim Barnes Commentary: "Cleethorpes Beach - Post." | "Airport camera post" by Patryk Grellmann Commentary: "Airport surveillance." |
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 | Constant repetitive melody and bass very Michael Post in style. |
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After This | Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. |
Gough Whitlam | The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. |
Joseph Addison | The post of honor is a private station. |
Steven Wright | A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." |
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John Locke | 1690 | And to let us see, that even absolute power, where it is necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to those ends, which required it in some cases to be absolute, we need look no farther than the common practice of martial discipline: for the preservation of the army, and in it of the whole common-wealth, requires an absolute obedience to the command of every superior officer, and it is justly death to disobey or dispute the most dangerous or unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach, where he is almost sure to perish, can command that soldier to give him one penny of his money; nor the general, that can condemn him to death for deserting his post, or for not obeying the most desperate orders, can yet, with all his absolute power of life and death, dispose of one farthing of that soldier's estate, or seize one jot of his goods; whom yet he can command any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end, for which the commander has his power, viz. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The constitution declares that "no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I have made up my mind to accept a post in India, that has been offered me. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | this must mean the relays of the post. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in an post. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And little piles of Post Toasties, corn flakes, stacked up in designs |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In a little time I observed the noise of flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign post on a windy day. |
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Health | These services only post recent news intended for public viewing. (references) | |
Encourage health officials to post signs on shorelines where swimmer's itch is a current problem. (references) | ||
These anti-inflammatory agents, however, cannot inhibit the delayed, post 24-hour erythema that is modulated by lipoxygenase products. (references) | ||
Business | Banks are required to post their buying and selling rates daily. (references) | |
Premier Li Peng was constitutionally required to step down from that post. (references) | ||
These are the various subsidiary companies of VNPT or the provincial post offices. (references) | ||
Children | Lithuania | In December "a punishment cell" was eliminated in one of these care houses, and a psychologist's post and a relaxation room were set up. Child abuse in connection with alcohol abuse by parents also was a serious problem. (references) |
Haiti | The law ordered all schools to post clearly their policies on disciplinary measures. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Germany | The Federal Court of Justice has held that the country's laws against Nazi incitement may apply to individuals who post Nazi material on Internet sites available to users in the country, even if the site resides on a foreign server. (references) |
Economic History | Russia | Improved consumer purchasing power will stimulate a fast restoration of imports of nuts to the pre-crises level, which averaged US$ 40 million in CY 1996 and 1997. Post estimates that U.S. imports of high quality nuts will quite likely exceed the 1998 level of US$ 10.0 million within the next 5 years. (references) |
Russia | Post estimates total domestic production, including from forests, at US $ 10.0 million, and its value growth reflects price increases rather than an increase in production volume. (references) | |
Sudan | The last U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan, Ambassador Tim Carney, departed post prior to this event and no new ambassador has been designated since. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | At Chikankata police post on August 24, two police officers beat to death Lameck Siamapande, who was in police custody on suspicion of theft. (references) |
Zambia | Indigent detainees and defendants rarely have the means to post bail. (references) | |
Nepal | On July 13, Maoists surrounded a police post in Rolpa in the west, taking dozens of policemen hostage. (references) | |
Minorities | Czech Republic | Some restaurants, pubs, and other venues refuse service to Roma and post signs prohibiting their entry. (references) |
Political Economy | OMAN | Preliminary 2001 figures also indicate an increase in total exports of about 11.6 percent, mainly due to higher oil prices, and a 6.4 percent increase in imports during the first six months of 2001. These figures indicate that Oman should end the year 2001 with a trade surplus of approximately $6.3 billion, although this figure may fall due to post September 11 developments. (references) |
PORTUGAL | Portugal welcomes foreign investment and foreign investors need only to register their investments, post facto, with the Foreign Trade, Tourism, and Investment Promotion Agency. (references) | |
Political Rights | Iran | Minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance Ayatollah Mohajerani appointed a second woman to a senior post, Azam Nouri, when he chose her in 1997 as his Deputy Minister for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs. (references) |
Tunisia | Four women were appointed deputy governors raising the total to 10 women holding that post. (references) | |
Djibouti | Somali clans other than the Issa and Djiboutians of Yemeni origin are limited unofficially to one ministerial post each, which they hold. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | Mail and parcel post shipments require postal documentation in place of bills of landing. (references) |
Nigeria | This facility is designed to assist banks in providing pre and post shipment finance in local currency in support of non-oil exports. (references) | |
Kenya | Although Kenya inherited at the time of independence a financial system typical of all British colonies in Africa -- a currency board; a commercial banking system wholly dominated by two major British banks; a Post Office Saving Bank and a small number of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) providing mortgage finance, insurance and other near bank financial services -- the sector has grown into a substantial, sophisticated complex. (references) | |
Travel | Guinea | A plethora of phone booths, using phone cards purchased at the post office, were installed throughout Conakry in 1996-1997, but are not always operational. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | Mail is generally sent to an "apartado postal" (A.P.) or post office box. (references) | |
Mexico | The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald and USA Today usually arrive the day of or the day after publication. (references) | |
Women | Austria | The Commission also may order legal recompense for women who are denied a post despite having equal qualifications. (references) |
Malaysia | In January the Prime Minister established a Cabinet post for Women's Affairs and Family Development. (references) | |
Nepal | On September 11, two men, including a local village official, were jailed in Simardahi, Mahottari District, after failing to post bond for charges relating to the August 14 beating of an elderly woman after publicly denouncing her as a witch. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uganda | In 2000 the IC President was criticized for the Court's impartiality and subsequently was "promoted" from her post allegedly because of this impartiality; in May the President appointed Constantine Rwaheru as the IC president. (references) |
Mozambique | The Constitution explicitly provides for the right to strike, with the exception of civil servants, police, military personnel, and other essential services (which include sanitation, fire fighting, air traffic control, health care, water, electricity, fuel, post office, telecommunications, and funeral services). (references) | |
South Africa | On March 5 in Johannesburg, during a 2-week strike by postal workers, police shot at a crowd of post office workers who attacked non-striking workers and injured one person. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. He saw a ghost. It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | We've done the research and we have tracked down a Washington Post story, concerning a Gephardt funny money tax deal with a home in North Carolina. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The establishment of the militia, of a mint, of standards of weights and measures, of the post office and post roads are subjects which I presume you will resume of course, and which are abundantly urged by their own importance. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | At a recent date an attack was made on a post of the enemy near Niagara by a detachment of the regular and other forces under the command of Major-General Van Rensselaer, of the militia of the State of New York. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Of the actual force in service under the present military establishment, the posts at which it is stationed, and the condition of each post, a report from the Sec of War which is now communicated will give a distinct idea. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | On a post road from Baltimore to Philadelphia. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | I repair to the post assigned me not as to one sought, but in obedience to the unsolicited expression of your will, answerable only for a fearless, faithful, and diligent exercise of my best powers. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | When I looked down at the enormous United States Post Office building I could just see the excitement on the faces of the bureaucrats--knowing they would soon be managing our national health care system! |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last year I proposed a defense plan that maintains our post Cold War security at lower cost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Post" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.19% of the time. "Post" is used about 8,999 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.19% | 7,487 | 1,293 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.62% | 1,136 | 6,738 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.47% | 313 | 16,314 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.54% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Preposition (except "of") | 0.13% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,999 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "post" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Post | Last name | 8,000 | 1,481 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Post Energy Corporation | China | Shanghai Post & Telecommunications Equipment Co., Ltd. |
| Germany | Deutsche Post AG | Hong Kong | South China Morning Post (Holdings) Limited |
| Thailand | The Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd. | United Kingdom | Bristol United Post plc |
| USA | Post Properties Incorporated | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Post, OR 2. Post, TX (city, FIPS 59012) |
Expressions using "post": a post master ♦ ad post obit ♦ advanced command post ♦ advanced post ♦ air observation post & |