Post
[pəʊst] or [post]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the delivery and collection of letters and packages; 'it came by the first post'; 'if you hurry you'll catch the post'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; 'a soldier manned the entrance post'; 'a sentry station'.
(noun.) United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914).
(noun.) United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960).
(noun.) United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935).
(verb.) publicize with, or as if with, a poster; 'I'll post the news on the bulletin board'.
(verb.) display, as of records in sports games.
(verb.) mark or expose as infamous; 'She was branded a loose woman'.
(verb.) place so as to be noticed; 'post a sign'; 'post a warning at the dump'.
(verb.) affix in a public place or for public notice; 'post a warning'.
(verb.) ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
(verb.) transfer (entries) from one account book to another.
(verb.) assign to a post; put into a post; 'The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu'.
(verb.) enter on a public list.
伯特兰校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
(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.
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
(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.
(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
(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.) 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.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
(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. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
(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.
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Pillar, COLUMN, support.[2]. Station, position, seat.[3]. Office, employment, place, situation, capacity.[4]. Postman, courier, letter-carrier.[5]. Mail.
v. a. [1]. Place, station, set, put, fix, establish.[2]. Placard, advertise, announce, make known, blaze abroad, spread abroad.[3]. Stigmatize (by public notice), vilify, brand, defame, disgrace.[4]. Put in the ledger, carry to the ledger.[5]. Mail, put in the mail, put in the post-office.
贝琪校對
解釋/意思:
n. a piece of timber fixed in the ground generally as a support to something else: a pillar.—v.t. to fix on or to a post or to any conspicuous position in a public place: to expose to public reproach to placard as having failed in an examination &c.—n. Post′er one who posts bills: a large printed bill or placard for posting.—From pillar to post (see Pillar).
n. a fixed place as a military station: a fixed place or stage on a road: an office: one who travels by stages esp. carrying letters &c.: a public letter-carrier: an established system of conveying letters: (Shak.) a post-horse: (Shak.) haste: a size of writing-paper double that of common note-paper (so called from the water-mark a postman's horn).—v.t. to set or station: to put in the post-office: (book-k.) to transfer from the journal to the ledger: to supply with necessary information as to post up (cf. Well posted up).—v.i to travel with post-horses or with speed.—adv. with posthorses: with speed.—ns. Post′age the act of going by post: journey: money paid for conveyance of letters &c. by post or mail; Post′age-stamp an adhesive stamp for affixing to letters to show that the postal charge has been paid.—adj. Post′al of or pertaining to the mail-service.—ns. Post′-bag a mail-bag; Post′-bill a way-bill of the letters sent from a post-office; Post′boy a boy that rides posthorses or who carries letters; Post′-card a stamped card on which a message may be sent by post; Post′-chaise Post′-char′iot a chaise or carriage with four wheels let for hire for the conveyance of those who travel with posthorses.—v.i. Post′-chaise to travel by post-chaise.—ns. Post′-day the day on which the post or mail arrives or departs; Post′er one who travels by post: (Shak.) a courier: one who travels expeditiously: a posthorse.—adj. Post′-free delivered by the post without payment.—n. Posthaste′ haste in travelling like that of a post.—adj. speedy: immediate.—adv. with haste or speed.—ns. Post′-horn a postman's horn: a horn blown by the driver of a mail-coach; Post′horse a horse kept for posting; Post′house a house where horses are kept for the use of parties posting: a post-office; Post′man a post or courier: a letter-carrier; Post′mark the mark or stamp put upon a letter at a post-office showing the time and place of reception and delivery; Post′master the manager or superintendent of a post-office: one who supplies posthorses: at Merton College Oxford a scholar who is supported on the foundation; Post′master-Gen′eral the minister who is the chief officer of the post-office department; Post′-off′ice an office for receiving and transmitting letters by post: a department of the government which has charge of the reception and conveyance of letters.—adj. Post′-paid having the postage paid as a letter.—ns. Post′-time the time for the despatch or for the delivery of letters; Post′-town a town with a post-office.—Postal note a note for a fixed designated sum issued by a postmaster payable at any office; Postal order an order issued by the postmaster authorising the holder to receive at some particular post-office payment of the sum marked on it.
adv. and prep. after behind—in compounds as Post-abdominal Post-anal Post-axial Post-brachial Post-canonical Post-clavicle Post-embryonic &c.—adj. Post′-class′ical after those Greek and Latin writers styled classical but before the medieval.—n. Post′-commun′ion the part of the eucharistic office after the act of communion.—adj. succeeding communion.—v.t. Postdate′ to date after the real time.—n. a date on a letter later than the real date on which it was written.—adjs. Post′-dilū′vial Post′-dilū′vian being or happening after the deluge.—ns. Post′-dilū′vian one who has lived since the deluge; Post′-en′try an additional entry of merchandise at a custom-house.—adjs. Post′-exil′ic Post′-exil′ian after the time of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews.—ns. Post′-exist′ence future existence; Post′fix a letter syllable or word fixed to or put after another word an affix.—v.t. Postfix′ to add to the end of another word.—adjs. Post′-glā′cial after the glacial epoch; Post′-grad′uate belonging to study pursued after graduation; Post′-merid′ian coming after the sun has crossed the meridian: in the afternoon (written P.M.).—n. Post′-millenā′rian one who believes in post-millennialism.—adj. Post′-millenn′ial.—n. Post′-millenn′ialism the doctrine that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.—adj. Post′-mor′tem after death.—n. a post-mortem examination.—adjs. Post′-nā′tal after birth; Post′-nī′cene after the first general council at NicéŽ in 325 A.D.—n. Post′-note a note issued by a bank payable at some future time.—adj. Post′-nup′tial being or happening after marriage.—ns. Post′-ō′bit a bond or security given by heirs and others entitled to reversionary interests whereby in consideration of a sum of money presently advanced the debtor binds himself to pay a much larger sum after the death of some person or of himself; Post′-posi′tion the state of being put back or out of the regular place: (gram.) a word or particle placed after a word—opp. to a preposition which is placed before.—adjs. Post′-pos′itive; Post′-remote′ more remote in subsequent time or order; Post′-ter′tiary more recent than the Tertiary.—n. the most recent geological division.
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例句/造句/用法:
- His mouth was such a post-office of a mouth that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Anselmo was happy now and he was very pleased that he had stayed there at the post of observation. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But the fust was put underneath the door, and this come by the post, day afore yesterday. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The post-chaise drove up to the door shortly afterwards; and Giles coming in for the luggage, the good doctor bustled out, to see it packed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- On a night like this it would be nothing to take the posts and blow the bridge and it would all be over and done with. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The dance is about to begin, said Crispin, when the garrison were all in order at their several posts. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- We have all seen fence posts and bricks pushed out of place because of the heaving of the soil beneath them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In Otero, that night, was when he first killed and he hoped he would not have to kill in this of the suppressing of these posts. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The method of supporting the wires on tall posts was then adopted by Mr. Cooke, the wires being insulated from the posts at the points of suspension, by passing them through quills. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I must deliver this message now quickly and well and then make all haste to return in time for the assault on the posts. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I was away for two days at the posts. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at http://pglaf. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We went out to where they posted the numbers and the bell rang to pay off and they put up 18. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The swinging sentinel was posted, and the sea rushed on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I posted it, and had nothing to do then, but wait, as patiently as I could, for the reply. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Building away with all his might, but reserving the plans of his castle exclusively for his own eye, Mr Dorrit posted away for Marseilles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- By the way, to revert to the letters, how are you going to get them posted? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is a shabby little figure of a private soldier; they had posted him as sentinel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Formerly, they were turned towards the posting-house; now, they are turned towards the prison. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You insist on my posting this letter, Sir Percival? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is something, too, to be of royal blood, answered I frankly; and something more to be accomplished: but this posting after a man! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- To help my memory I kept a book in which I would write up, from time to time, my recollections of all I had read since last posting it. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Then, like the best of men, said Miss Pross, go to the posting-house straight, and make that change. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She stood aside, on the top step, posting herself there to see what happened. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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