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. |
Position (n.) The state of being posited, or placed |
Position (n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place |
Position (n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy |
Position (n.) Relative place or standing |
Position (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions |
Position (v. t.) To indicate the position of |
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. |
Tool-post (n.) Alt. of Tool-stock |
position | the act of positing, an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
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 |
stead position place lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another, can you go in my stead?, took his place, in lieu of |
position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player, what position does he play? |
placement location locating position positioning emplacement | the act of putting something in a certain place |
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 |
telephone pole telegraph pole telegraph post | tall pole supporting telephone wires |
whipping post | post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped |
position spatial relation | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated, the position of the hands on the clock, he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage |
position posture attitude | the arrangement of the body and its limbs, he assumed an attitude of surrender |
ballet position | classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet |
lithotomy position | a position lying on your back with knees bent and thighs apart, assumed for vaginal or rectal examination |
lotus position | a sitting position with the legs crossed, used in yoga |
missionary position | a position for sexual intercourse, a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top, soalled because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples |
superiority favorable position favourable position | the quality of being at a competitive advantage |
inferiority unfavorable position | the quality of being a competitive disadvantage |
post hoc post hoc ergo propter hoc | the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation |
position stance posture | a rationalized mental attitude |
position view perspective | a way of regarding situations or topics etc., consider what follows from the positivist view |
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 |
place position | an item on a list or in a sequence, in the second place, moved from third to fifth position |
cleanup cleanup position cleanup spot | (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) |
aide-memoire position paper | a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications) |
registered mail registered post | mail that is registered by the post office when sent in order to assure safe delivery |