Post vs. Reply

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.

A pole in a battery.

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.

A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.

(sports) A goalpost.

(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.

(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

Example: ‘a stage or railway post’;

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

Example: ‘sent via post; parcel post’;

A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.

A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.

A location on a basketball court near the basket.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

Example: ‘Two of the receivers ran post patterns.’;

(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

An assigned station; a guard post.

An appointed position in an organization, job.

Post-production.

(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

Example: ‘Post no bills.’;

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

Example: ‘to post someone for cowardice’;

(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

To pay (a blind).

Example: ‘Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.’;

To put content online, usually through a publicly accessible mean, such as a video channel, gallery, message board, blog etc.

To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.

To travel quickly; to hurry.

(UK) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.

Example: ‘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.’;

(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

Example: ‘I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.’;

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.

To assign to a station; to set; to place.

Example: ‘Post a sentinel in front of the door.’;

With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly

Sent via the postal service.

After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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.

Example: ‘They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses.’; ‘Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore,The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.’; ‘Unto his order he was a noble post.’;

The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

Example: ‘When God sends coinI will discharge your post.’;

The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

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.

Example: ‘In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.’; ‘I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,Receiving them from such a worthless post.’;

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.

Example: ‘I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.’;

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

Example: ‘He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.’;

A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

Example: ‘The post of honor is a private station.’;

A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

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.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

Example: ‘On pain of being posted to your sorrowFail not, at four, to meet me.’;

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

Example: ‘You have not posted your books these ten years.’;

To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.

To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.

Example: ‘Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.’;

To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

Example: ‘And post o'er land and ocean without rest.’;

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;

Example: ‘a soldier manned the entrance post’; ‘a sentry station’;

military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;

Example: ‘this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby’; ‘there is an officer's club on the post’;

a job in an organization;

Example: ‘he occupied a post in the treasury’;

an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;

Example: ‘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)

United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)

United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)

any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;

Example: ‘your mail is on the table’; ‘is there any post for me?’; ‘she was opening her post’;

a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);

Example: ‘a pair of posts marked the goal’; ‘the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake’;

the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;

Example: ‘the mail handles billions of items every day’; ‘he works for the United States mail service’; ‘in England they call mail `the post'’;

the delivery and collection of letters and packages;

Example: ‘it came by the first post’; ‘if you hurry you'll catch the post’;

affix in a public place or for public notice;

Example: ‘post a warning’;

publicize with, or as if with, a poster;

Example: ‘I'll post the news on the bulletin board’;

assign to a post; put into a post;

Example: ‘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

ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait

mark with a stake;

Example: ‘stake out the path’;

put up;

Example: ‘post a sign’; ‘post a warning at the dump’;

cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

Example: ‘send me your latest results’; ‘I'll mail you the paper when it's written’;

mark or expose as infamous;

Example: ‘She was branded a loose woman’;

a long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker

Example: ‘follow the blue posts until the track meets a road’;

a goalpost

Example: ‘Robertson, at the near post, headed wide’;

a starting post or winning post.

a piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application

Example: ‘in a recent post, he cautioned investors to be wary of these predictions’;

the official service or system that delivers letters and parcels

Example: ‘the tickets are in the post’; ‘winners will be notified by post’;

letters and parcels delivered

Example: ‘she was opening her post’;

a single collection or delivery of mail

Example: ‘entries must be received no later than first post on 14 June’;

used in names of newspapers

Example: ‘the Washington Post’;

each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.

a person or vehicle that carries mail.

a position of paid employment; a job

Example: ‘he resigned from the post of Foreign Minister’; ‘a teaching post’;

a place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out

Example: ‘a customs post’; ‘a shift worker asleep at his post’;

a place where a soldier or police officer is stationed or which they patrol

Example: ‘he gave the men orders not to leave their posts’;

a force stationed at a permanent position or camp; a garrison.

a local group in an organization of military veterans.

the status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy

Example: ‘Captain Miller was made post in 1796’;

display (a notice) in a public place

Example: ‘a curt notice had been posted on the door’;

put notices on or in

Example: ‘we have posted all the bars’;

announce or publish (something, especially a financial result)

Example: ‘the company posted a £460,000 loss’;

publish the name of (a member of the armed forces) as missing or dead

Example: ‘a whole troop had been posted missing’;

publish (a piece of writing, image, or other item of content) online, typically on a blog or social media website or application

Example: ‘the list was promptly posted all over the Internet’; ‘I'll post an article next week revealing the results of the poll’; ‘she posted a photo of herself with the singer on Twitter’; ‘the company posted the news on its blog yesterday’;

(of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result)

Example: ‘Smith and Lamb posted a century partnership’;

send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system

Example: ‘post off your order form today’; ‘I've just been to post a letter’;

(in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger

Example: ‘post the transaction in the second column’; ‘initial records kept in day books are periodically posted to accounts’;

complete (a ledger) by entering items.

travel with relays of horses

Example: ‘we posted in an open carriage’;

travel with haste; hurry

Example: ‘he comes posting up the street’;

send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment

Example: ‘he was posted to Washington as military attaché’;

station (someone, especially a soldier or police officer) in a particular place

Example: ‘a guard was posted at the entrance’;

with haste

Example: ‘come now, come post’;

subsequent to; after

Example: ‘American poetry post the 1950s hasn't had the same impact’;

To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

(intransitive) To act or gesture in response.

Example: ‘Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.’;

(intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.

A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

Something given in reply.

A counterattack.

(music) The answer of a figure.

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

Example: ‘O man, who art thou that repliest against God?’;

To answer a defendant's plea.

Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

To return for an answer.

Example: ‘Lords, vouchsafeTo give me hearing what I shall reply.’;

That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation;

Example: ‘I waited several days for his answer’; ‘he wrote replies to several of his critics’;

the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange;

Example: ‘he growled his reply’;

reply or respond to;

Example: ‘She didn't want to answer’; ‘answer the question’; ‘We answered that we would accept the invitation’;

say something in response to something someone has said

Example: ‘she replied that she had been sound asleep’; ‘he was gone before we could reply to his last remark’; ‘‘I'm OK—just leave me alone,’ he replied’;

write back in answer to someone

Example: ‘she replied with a long letter the next day’;

respond by a similar action or gesture

Example: ‘they replied to the shelling with a heavy mortar attack’;

a verbal or written answer

Example: ‘I received a reply from the managing director’; ‘‘No,’ was the curt reply’;

the action of answering someone or something

Example: ‘I am writing in reply to your letter’;

a response in the form of a gesture, action, or expression

Example: ‘Clough scored the first goal and Speed hit a late reply’;

a plaintiff's response to the defendant's plea.