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Posting   /pˈoʊstɪŋ/   Listen
Posting

noun
1.
A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.  Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster.
2.
(bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records.
3.
The transmission of a letter.  Synonym: mailing.


Post

verb
(past & past part. posted; pres. part. posting)
1.
Affix in a public place or for public notice.
2.
Publicize with, or as if with, a poster.
3.
Assign to a post; put into a post.
4.
Assign to a station.  Synonyms: place, send, station.
5.
Display, as of records in sports games.
6.
Enter on a public list.
7.
Transfer (entries) from one account book to another.  Synonym: carry.
8.
Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
9.
Mark with a stake.  Synonym: stake.
10.
Place so as to be noticed.  Synonym: put up.  "Post a warning at the dump"
11.
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.  Synonyms: mail, send.  "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
12.
Mark or expose as infamous.  Synonym: brand.



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"Posting" Quotes from Famous Books



... had to take the whole matter very quietly and begin again from the beginning, posting the company as they were, and explaining that no one in the rear was to move until the front rank man led off: all they had to do was to follow the man in front. [9] As I was speaking, up came a friend of mine; he was going off ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon
... farewell to his relatives, he and his secretary and another well-tried companion turned their backs on the petty tyrant of Shiraz. [Footnote: AMB, p. 370.] The Bāb, however, took a very wise precaution. At the last posting station before Isfahan he wrote to Minuchihr Khan, the governor (a Georgian by origin), announcing his approach and invoking the ...
— The Reconciliation of Races and Religions • Thomas Kelly Cheyne
... to Hurst Dormer to-night, and send off this letter to Marjorie from Town instead of posting it here? He could see to a few things in Hurst Dormer on the morrow, see Marjorie, arrange her little troubles and then be back here by Saturday; but as he was not sure of his movements he left it that he would wire Mrs. Bonner ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... Spaniards, who had at first paid him so much polite attention, were evidently not even officers. A huge black man, with a very ugly visage, seemed to have considerable authority. He was engaged in marshalling the negroes, and posting them at the stockades ready to make use of their firearms. The burly sovereign of the territory was nowhere to be seen. He probably thought discretion the best part of valour, and had retired again to his capital, to await the ...
— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston
... a mixture of interest and apprehension. Aunt Lavinia was intensely sympathetic, and Catherine, for the past year, while she wandered through foreign galleries and churches, and rolled over the smoothness of posting roads, nursing the thoughts that never passed her lips, had often longed for the company of some intelligent person of her own sex. To tell her story to some kind woman—at moments it seemed to her that this would give her ...
— Washington Square • Henry James


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