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post
Part of speech: NounA piece of timber, etc., set upright, usually to support something else; system of carrying and delivering letters; the mail; place, station, situation, or office; a military station.
Part of speech: VerbTo fasten, as a notice, to a wall, etc.; to make known by means of notices fastened to a wall, etc.; to send by mail; in bookkeeping, to transfer an entry or item from journal or day book to ledger; to inform fully.
Part of speech: VerbTo travel with speed; as, to post o'er land and sea.
Part of speech: AdverbSpeedily: post card, a private card, as a picture, which can be sent through the mail by the affixing of a postage stamp.
Usage examples "post":- One must die at one's post. - "Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings", Mary F. Sandars.
- Kindly wire me to the post- office, Ogunquit, Me. - "The Lightning Conductor Discovers America", C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson.
- My watch tells me that I cannot hope to finish this letter by post time. - "The Black Robe", Wilkie Collins.