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6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posting}.] 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. [1913 Webster] Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. [1913 Webster] 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. [1913 Webster] On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. [1913 Webster] 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. [1913 Webster] 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted." --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. [1913 Webster] You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. [1913 Webster] 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster] {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?" --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Posting \Post"ing\, n. 1. The act of traveling post. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. [1913 Webster] {Posting house}, a post house. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: posting n 1: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: {poster}, {placard}, {notice}, {bill}, {card}] 2: (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; "the posting was made in the cash account" 3: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" [syn: {mailing}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 57 Moby Thesaurus words for "posting": allocation, appointment, assignment, booking, cataloging, chronicling, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, designation, disposition, emplacement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, lading, listing, loading, localization, locating, location, logging, matriculation, naming, nomination, ordainment, ordination, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, putting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reposition, selection, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, tabbing, tabulation, transferral From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: posting n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that {post} can be nouned). Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or email; perhaps the best dividing line is that if you don't know the names of all the potential recipients, it is a posting. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: posting A message sent to a {newsgroup} or {mailing list} (may also be called "a post") or the act of sending it. Distinguished from a "letter" or ordinary {electronic mail} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or e-mail; perhaps the best dividing line is that if you don't know the names of all the potential recipients, it is a posting. [{Jargon File}]
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