Word Type
Post can be a noun, an adverb, a verb or a preposition.
post used as a noun:
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- A particular method of sending mail; sent via post.
- a stud; a two-by-four.
- A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to strengthen the tooth.
- a prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A pole in a battery
- An individual message in a forum
- A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
post used as an adverb:
- With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
- sent via the postal service
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
post used as a verb:
- To hang a notice in a conspicuous manner for general review.
"Post no bills." - To send mail.
"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." - To send a message to a Usenet newsgroup, internet forum or to a mailing list; to save a message on a blog.
"I couldn't figure it out so I posted a question on Usenet." - To pay a blind
"Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
post used as a preposition:
- after; esp. after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →
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What type of word is post?
- Verb usage: Post no bills.
- Verb usage: 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.
- Verb usage: I couldn't figure it out so I posted a question on Usenet.
- Verb usage: Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of post are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of post, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
