Tread vs Post - What's the difference?
tread | post |
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
To step or walk upon.
To beat or press with the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 5
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
(of a male bird) To copulate with.
(tread)
A step.
A manner of stepping.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A way; a track or path.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1896 , (Bret Harte), Barker's Luck and Other Stories
(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of copulation in birds.
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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
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(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.
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, title= An appointed position in an organization.
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, 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 nouns the difference between tread and post
is that tread is a step while post is post, mail.As a verb tread
is to step or walk (on or over something); to trample.tread
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) treden, from (etyl) {{term, tredan, , to tread, step on, trample, traverse, pass over, enter upon, roam through , lang=ang}}, from (etyl) , Norwegian treda.Verb
- He trod back and forth wearily.
- Don't tread on the lawn.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread .
- ye that stately tread , or lowly creep
- Actors tread the boards.
- to tread''' a path; to '''tread''' land when too light; a well-'''trodden path
- I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
- They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
- Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Chaucer)
Usage notes
* "(term)" is not commonly used in the UK and is less common in the US as well. It is apparently used more often in (tread water). * (term) is sometimes used as a past and past participle, especially in the US.Derived terms
* betread * * tread water * untrod * treading on eggshellsUse of expression in delicate situations; be nice
Etymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread , / My heart would hear her and beat.
- (Shakespeare)
- The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
- But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.
Synonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) runAntonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) rise, riserDerived terms
*See also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
*References
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.
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- Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.