Placed vs Posted - What's the difference?
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(place)
(label) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
(post)
A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post
(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
(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches
(sports) goalpost
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
* S. Rowlands
To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
* Granville
(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
* Arbuthnot
To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up .
* London Saturday Review
(poker) To pay (a blind)
(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.
A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
* Archbishop Abbot
* Shakespeare
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 199:
An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
* Alexander Pope
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 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.
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
* Palfrey
To send an item of mail.
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(UK, 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.
With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 353:
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 93:
sent via the postal service
An assigned station; a guard post.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An appointed position in an organization.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis, work=Guardian
, title= To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
* De Quincey
after; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications
* 2008 , Michael Tomasky, "Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show", The Guardian ,
* 2008 , Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian ,
As verbs the difference between placed and posted
is that placed is (place) while posted is (post).placed
English
Verb
(head)Statistics
* ----place
English
(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
Synonyms
* (to earn a given spot) * (to put in a specific location) deposit, lay, lay down, put down * (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered) * (sense) achieve, make * reach * * (to recruit or match an appropriate person)Derived terms
* placement * place on a pedestalStatistics
*posted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *post
English
(wikipedia post)Alternative forms
* poast (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post . }}
- When God sends coin / I will discharge your post .
Derived terms
* doorpost * fencepost * from pillar to post * gatepost * goalpost * hitching post * king post * lamppost * listening post * milepost * newel post * post hole * * scratching post * signpost * tool postVerb
(en verb)- Post no bills.
- to post someone for cowardice
- On pain of being posted to your sorrow / Fail not, at four, to meet me.
- You have not posted your books these ten years.
- thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day
- Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a stage or railway post
- 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 .
- information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.
- sent via ''post'''; ''parcel '''post
- I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post .
- Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
- In post he came.
- He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post , for several years.
Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- Post speedily to my lord your husband.
- And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
- I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
Derived terms
*Adverb
(-)- In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post .
- He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post .
Descendants
* German: (l)Etymology 3
Probably from (etyl) poste.Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts . For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post . But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
Verb
(en verb)- Post a sentinel in front of the door.
- It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, or to get him posted .
Etymology 4
From (etyl) postPreposition
(English prepositions)online,
- One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
online,
- Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.
