English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ

Noun

1. action of the verb to post
2. an item inserted into a register, ledger or diary
3. an entry in a computerized bulletin board
4. In the context of "mostly|UK": the place where a soldier or airman is sent (posted) for duty; the time spent there

Verb

1. present participle of post

Derived terms

• bottom-posting
• crossposting / cross posting
• top-posting

• An entry in a blog or internet forum, an e-mail or Usenet message (also see: posting style)
• Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries
• Pole, a long and straight stick, usually vertical which may be a structural element in post and beam systems
  • Pillar, a structural element of a car body
• Abbreviation of Post Production, the process that occurs in the making of audio recordings, films/movies, photography, digital art, videos and television programs. It is the general term for all stages of production occurring after the actual recording and ending with the completed work.
• The "Post" is the name of a number of newspapers including:
  • New York Post, (USA)
  • The Washington Post, (USA)
  • The Christian Post, (USA)
  • The Jerusalem Post, (Israel)
  • The Sunday Post, (Scotland)
  • National Post, (Canada)
  • The Sunday Business Post, (Ireland)
  • Australasian Post, (Australia)
• Post (album), by Björk
• Post Cereals
• A military base
• Posting (laundering process), or postadh, a traditional Scottish method of washing clothes
• The Posting system, a transfer system for baseball players moving from a Japanese baseball team to a Major League Baseball team
• Posting the trot or canter
• Post (route), a route run by a receiver in American Football
• Post Records, a record label
• Post Magazine, a magazine
• Post player, a basketball term to denote forwards and centers who play their positions near the basket
• Post, Texas, the county seat of Garza County
• A prefix used to describe an idea or movement indicating that it came after/was influenced by another, such as Post Modernism

• In computing
  • Power-on self-test, a computer's pre-boot sequence
  • POST is an HTTP request method
• Part-of-speech tagging
• The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK)
• Peace Officer Standards and Training