Postとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• poast (廃れた用法)

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/
• (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA^(key): /poʊst/
• 韻: -əʊst

語源 1

From 古期英語 post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French.

名詞

post (複数形 posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

   ram a post into the ground

2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
   • 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs

     when God ſends coyne,
     I will diſcharge your poaſt

10. the vertical part of a crochet stitch

派生語

動詞

post (三人称単数 現在形 posts, 現在分詞 posting, 過去形および過去分詞形 posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13

     On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow / Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull, Chapter X

     You have not posted your books these ten years.

4. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • 1872, "Interviewing a Prince", Saturday Review, London, volume 33, number 853, March 2, page 273

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

5. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).

   Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

派生語

• poster

派生した語

• Chinese: po

語源 2

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

名詞

post (複数形 posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (かつ later others) along the route. [16th-17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?)

     In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, scene iii, line 152

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin 2012, p. 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   sent via post; parcel post

   • 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11

     I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
   • 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:

     Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
8. (米国用法 football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

9. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
   • a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii, line 273

     And then in post he came from Mantua.

10. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Volume 1, chapter IV, page 136

      there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

派生語

派生した語

All are borrowed

動詞

post (三人称単数 現在形 posts, 現在分詞 posting, 過去形および過去分詞形 posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, scene vi, line 1

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13

     thousand at his bidding speed, / And post o'er land and ocean without rest; / They also serve who only stand and wait.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

派生語

• poster

副詞

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 5,^[2]

     His highness comes post from Marseilles,

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 353:

     In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.

2. Sent via the postal service.

派生した語

• German: posten

語源 3

Probably from French poste.

名詞

post (複数形 posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

動詞

post (三人称単数 現在形 posts, 現在分詞 posting, 過去形および過去分詞形 posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of Grasmere (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, […] or to get him posted.

語源 4

Borrowed from Latin post.

前置詞

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, "Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show", The Guardian, online,

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian, online,

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

語源 5

Clipping of post-production.

名詞

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.
   • 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:

     Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

参考

• post-

語源 6

Clipping of post mortem

名詞

post (複数形 posts)

1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
   • 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent (page 306)

     I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.

アナグラム

• OTPs, POTS, PTOs, Spot, TPOs, opts, pots, spot, stop, tops

Latin

語源

From earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós. Related to pōne.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post/, [pɔs̠t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /post/, [pɔst̪]

前置詞

post (+ accusative)

1. (of space) behind
2. (of time) after, since, (transf.) besides, except

副詞

post (not comparable)

1. (of space) behind, back, backwards
2. (of time) afterwards, after

反意語

• (before): ante

派生語

• post-
• poster/ posterus
• postīcus

派生した語

参照

• post in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• post in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• post in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• post in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem
    
  • to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
    
  • within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam
    
  • within the memory of man: post homines natos
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

語源

From Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /post/

名詞

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: post, poste
  • English: post
    • → German: Post
  • Scots: post, poist

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /poʊst/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/

接頭辞

post-

1. after, later
2. (anatomy) behind

反意語

• pre-, ante-

派生語

アナグラム

• OTPs, POTS, PTOs, Spot, TPOs, opts, pots, spot, stop, tops