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In obsolete terms the difference between post and station

is that post is one who has charge of a station, especially a postal station while station is the fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

As nouns the difference between post and station

is that post is a long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post while station is the fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

As verbs the difference between post and station

is that post is to hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review while station is to put in place to perform a task.

As an adverb post

is with the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.

As a preposition post

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

As an acronym POST

is power-On Self-Test.

As a proper noun Post

is {{surname}.

post

English

(wikipedia post)

Alternative forms

* poast (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 citation , page= , passage=But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post . }}
  • (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
    • 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 post

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
    • Post no bills.
  • To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
    • to post someone for cowardice
  • * Granville
    • On pain of being posted to your sorrow / Fail not, at four, to meet me.
  • (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • You have not posted your books these ten years.
  • To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up .
  • * London Saturday Review
    • thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day
  • (poker) To pay (a blind)
    • 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)
  • (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 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.
  • * Archbishop Abbot
    • In certain places there be always fresh posts , to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post .
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 199:
    • 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.
  • An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
    • sent via ''post'''; ''parcel '''post
  • * Alexander Pope
    • I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common 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 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.
    • Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
  • (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In post he came.
  • (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
  • * Palfrey
    • He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post , for several years.
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send an item of mail.
    • 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.
  • To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Post speedily to my lord your husband.
  • * Milton
    • And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
  • (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.
    • I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
    Derived terms
    *

    Adverb

    (-)
  • With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 353:
    • In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post .
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 93:
    • He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post .
  • sent via the postal service
    • Descendants
    * German: (l)

    Etymology 3

    Probably from (etyl) poste.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An assigned station; a guard post.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • An appointed position in an organization.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis, work=Guardian
    • , title= 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)
  • To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
  • To assign to a station; to set; to place.
    • Post a sentinel in front of the door.
  • * De Quincey
    • It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, or to get him posted .

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) post

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • 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 , online,
    • One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.
  • * 2008 , Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian , online,
    • Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "post")

    See also

    * post-

    Anagrams

    * ----

    station

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
  • * 1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , III.5:
  • (label) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
  • A stopping place.
  • # A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
  • # A ground transportation depot.
  • # A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
  • #* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • "Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations ."
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
  • # (label) A gas station, service station.
  • #* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
  • Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
  • A place where workers are stationed.
  • # An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
  • # A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
  • # A military base.
  • # A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
  • # A very large sheep or cattle farm.
  • #* 1890 , ,
  • There was movement at the station , for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
  • #* 1993 , Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O.'', entry in ''Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900 , page 69,
  • Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations', mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘n-gg-r-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal ' station hands.
  • #* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia , page 654,
  • The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.
  • One of the Stations of the Cross.
  • The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
  • A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
  • Standing; rank; position.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station .
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • they in France of the best rank and station
  • A broadcasting entity.
  • (label) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
  • (label) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
  • The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
  • (label) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
  • Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
  • * (1656-1715)
    • By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.

    Synonyms

    * (broadcasting entity) (that broadcasts television) channel * (ground transport depot) sta (abbreviation) * (military base) base, military base * (large sheep or cattle farm) farm, ranch

    Derived terms

    * base station * battle station * broadcast station, broadcast-station * bus station * cattle station * coach station * docking station * filling station * fire station * fuel station * fueling station, fuelling station * gas station * guard station * hill station * hydrogen station * listening station * metro station * mobile station, mobile-station * motor station * outstation * petrol filling station * petrol station * PlayStation, Playstation * police station * polling station * power station * pull station * radar station * radio station, radio-station * railroad station * railway station * relay station * service station * sheep station * space station, spacestation, space-station * substation * subway station * state * stationary * station bill * station break * station hand * stationmaster * station sedan * Stations of the Cross * station throat * station wagon, station-wagon * stationward * substation * subway station * television station, television-station, TV station * total station * train station * Tube station * underground station * urination station * voting station * way station, waystation * weigh station * work station, workstation

    References

    * (Newfoundland station)

    Verb

    (en-verb) (transitive)
  • To put in place to perform a task.
    • The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
  • * '>citation
    • The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone
  • To put in place to perform military duty.
    • They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.