Crown-post
(n.) Same as King-post. |
Curvature
(n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved |
Curvature
(n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. |
Elliptical
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse |
Elliptical
(a.) Having a part omitted |
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. |
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 |
Post-mortem
(a.) After death |
Post note
() A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. |
Post-obit
() Alt. of Post-obit bond |
Post-obit bond
() A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. |
Post office
(n.) See under 4th Post. |
Post-temporal
(a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull |
Post-temporal
(n.) A post-temporal bone. |
Post-tragus
(n.) A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals. |
Post-tympanic
(a.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus. |
Oueen-post
(n.) One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post. |
Re-sign
(v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time |
Re sign
(n.) Resignation. |
Sign
(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented |
| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
Babinski
Babinski reflex
Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
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 |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic
drug trafficking
narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade
slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
powder-post termite
Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
post horse
post-horse
poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
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 |
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 |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
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 |
| 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 |
| shutting post | the gatepost against which the gate closes |
signboard
sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
telephone pole
telegraph pole
telegraph post | tall pole supporting telephone wires |
traffic circle
circle rotary
roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
| traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
| whipping post | post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped |
| curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
| curvature | the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve |
| radius of curvature | the radius of the circle of curvature, the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature of a curve at a given point |
center of curvature
centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
circle of curvature
osculating circle | the circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature |
post hoc
post hoc ergo propter hoc | the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation |
| Post-It | brand name for a slip of notepaper that has an adhesive that allows it to stick to a surface and be removed without damaging the surface |
mail
mail service
postal service
post | the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office, the mail handles billions of items every day, he works for the United States mail service, in England they call mail `the post' |
| parcel post | postal service that handles packages |
| sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
registered mail
registered post | mail that is registered by the post office when sent in order to assure safe delivery |
postcard
post card
postal card
mailingard | a card for sending messages by post without an envelope |