Army
(n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers. |
Army
(n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause |
Army
(n.) A great number |
Army worm
() A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. |
Army worm
() The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. |
Booking office
() An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. |
Booking office
() An office where passage tickets are sold. |
Crown office
() The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. |
Crown-post
(n.) Same as King-post. |
Ex post facto
() Alt. of Ex postfacto |
King-post
(n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. |
Lamp-post
(n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. |
Office
(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others |
Office
(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose |
Office
(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself |
Office
(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform |
Office
(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted |
Office
(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office |
Office
(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. |
Office
(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass |
Office
(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office |
Post-
() A prefix signifying behind, back, after |
Post
(a.) Hired to do what is wrong |
Post
(n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else |
Post
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers |
Post
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed |
Post
(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route |
Post
(n.) A military station |
Post
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. |
Post
(n.) A messenger who goes from station |
Post
(n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another |
Post
(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. |
Post
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. |
Post
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument |
Post
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. |
Post
(v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices |
Post
(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach |
Post
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. |
Post
(v. t.) To assign to a station |
Post
(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger |
Post
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post |
Post
(v. t.) To inform |
Post
(v. i.) To travel with post horses |
Post
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. |
Post
(adv.) With post horses |
Post-abdomen
(n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax |
Post-captain
(n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy |
Post-disseizin
(n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor |
Post-disseizor
(n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. |
Post-fine
(n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
autopsy
necropsy
postmortem
post-mortem
PM
postmortem examination
post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease |
| post | the delivery and collection of letters and packages, it came by the first post, if you hurry you'll catch the post |
| post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
| public office | a position concerning the people as a whole |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
| office | a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, the offices of the mass |
| Divine Office | canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church) |
| Little Office | a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary, similar to but shorter than the Divine Office |
| Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
army ant
driver ant
legionary ant | tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
powder-post termite
Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
army cutworm
Chorizagrotis auxiliaris | larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states |
armyworm army worm
Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
post horse
post-horse
poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
| army base | a large base of operations for an army |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
box office
ticket office
ticket booth | the office where tickets of admission are sold |
checkroom
left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
command post
general headquarters
GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
| corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
| government office | an office where government employees work |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
hinging post
swinging post | the gatepost on which the gate is hung |
| hitching post | a fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying |
hut army hut
field hut | temporary military shelter |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
| land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
| life office | life assurance office |
| loan office | an office where loans are negotiated and repaid |
military post
post | military installation at which a body of troops is stationed, this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby, there is an officer's club on the post |
newel post
newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
office
business office | place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed, he rented an office in the new building |
office building
office block | a building containing offices where work is done |
| office furniture | furniture intended for use in an office |
| Oval Office | the office of the President of the United States in the White House |
pawnbroker's shop
pawnshop
loan office | a shop where loans are made with personal property as security |
| post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position, he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them |
| post and lintel | a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel) |
| post chaise | closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, formerly used to transport passengers and mail |
post exchange
PX | a commissary on a United States Army post |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
posthouse
post house | an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders |
Post-Office box
PO Box
POB
call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
| post road | a road over which mail is carried |
| queen post | vertical tie post in a roof truss |