[W/K] :: posting

  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.
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     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.
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     2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
        opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
        post one for cowardice.
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              On pain of being posted to your sorrow
              Fail not, at four, to meet me.        --Granville.
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     3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or
        the like.
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     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.
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     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.
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              You have not posted your books these ten years.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
        letter.
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     7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
        with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
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              Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
              of the day.                           --Lond. Sat.
                                                    Rev.
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     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.
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  Posting \Post"ing\, n.
     1. The act of traveling post.
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     2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from
        the journal to the ledger.
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     Posting house, a post house.
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  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]

  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
  
  

  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.
  
  

  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.
       
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