different between post vs commission

English

Alternative forms

• poast (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??st/
• (General American) enPR: p?st, IPA^(key): /po?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

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

Noun

post (plural posts)

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

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.
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 ?ends coyne,
     I will di?charge your poa?t

10. the vertical part of a crochet stitch

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle 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.

Derived terms

• poster

Descendants

• Chinese: po

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

post (plural 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 (and 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.]
7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
8. (American 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.

Derived terms

Descendants

All are borrowed

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle 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.

Derived terms

• poster

Translations

Adverb

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.

Descendants

• German: posten

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from French poste.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
2. An appointed position in an organization, job.

Translations

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle 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.

Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin post.

Preposition

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.

Etymology 5

Clipping of post-production.

Noun

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.

See also

• post-

Etymology 6

Clipping of post mortem

Noun

post (plural 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.

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin postus, from positus.

Verb

post

1. past participle of pondre

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f (Luserna)

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkart

References

• “post” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [po?st]

Noun

post m (plural postow)

1. post (method of sending mail)

Related terms

• lytherva
• postya
• sodhva an post

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st/, [?p??sd?]

Etymology 1

Via French poste m from Italian posto (“post, location”), from Latin positus (“position”), from the verb p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. post (position, job)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postere
• vagtpost

Etymology 2

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, not used in plural form)

1. post, mail (letters or packages)
2. post, mail (a public institution distributing letters or packages)
3. postman (a person carrying letters or packages)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postbud
• postkontor

Etymology 3

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of p?n? (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. entry (in a budget)

Inflection

Derived terms

• postere

Etymology 4

Via Middle Low German post from Latin postis (“post, door-post”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. pump, tap, faucet (an outdoor water pump)
2. (rare, in compounds) post (supporting a door or a window)

Inflection

Derived terms

• dørpost
• vandpost
• vinduespost

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/
• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. Mail.
2. A mail office, a post office.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• ? Indonesian: pos

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste, from Italian posto.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. A location or station, where a soldier is supposed to be; position.
2. A post, a position, an office.

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

Derived terms

• grenspost
• handelspost
• legerpost

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• ? Indonesian: pos

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

post

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of posten
2. imperative of posten

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Esperanto

Etymology

Latin post

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/
• Hyphenation: post

Preposition

post

1. after
2. behind

French

Etymology

From English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

Irish

Alternative forms

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??s?t??]

Noun

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. (of employment) post, job

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "post" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “post” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “post” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post/, [p?s?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /post/, [p?st?]

Preposition

post (+ accusative)

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

Adverb

post (not comparable)

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

Antonyms

• (before): ante

Derived terms

• post-
• poster/ posterus
• post?cus

Descendants

References

• 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.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

Latvian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puôst]

Verb

post (tr., 1st conj., pres. pošu, pos, poš, past posu)

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

Conjugation

Mòcheno

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkòrt

References

• “post” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?st/

Noun

post m

1. skin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian posta (in the given sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

References

• “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian posta (in this sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

References

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/

Noun

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

Declension

Descendants

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Noun

post m inan

1. fast

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) po?ci? impf
• (adjective) postny

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m anim

1. post (message)

Declension

Further reading

• post in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?powst??/, /?post??/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (individual message in an on-line discussion)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

Related terms

• posti

See also

• p?resimi
• Postul Mare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?t?/

Noun

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. Alternative form of posta
3. post, stake

Derived terms

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

Verb

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *post?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô?st/

Noun

p?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fast, fasting

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??st/

Noun

p?st m inan

1. fast (act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English post. Doublet of puesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?post/, [?post?]

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (computing) post

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

Declension

Related terms

• posta
• postkontor
• postlåda
• Posten

Anagrams

• stop

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poust/, [po?st]

Noun

post

1. (computing, Internet) post

Derived terms

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [post]

Noun

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonym: kürk

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /po?sd/, [p?o?st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p?sd/, [p??st]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (uncountable)

1. post, mail

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin postis.

Noun

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

Derived terms

• mynegbost (“signpost”)

Alternative forms

• postyn

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French commission, from Latin commissi? (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”), + noun of action missi? (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mitt? (“to send”), + noun of action suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)

1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
3. The thing to be done as agent for another.

4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.

   Synonyms: committee, government body

5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.

   Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage

6. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).

   • Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.

   Antonym: omission

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)

1. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
   • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

2. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)

3. (transitive) To put into active service

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commissio, commissionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.mi.sj??/

Noun

commission f (plural commissions)

1. commission (fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction)

Derived terms

• Commission européenne

Descendants

• ? Persian: ???????? (komisiyon)
• ? Turkish: komisyon

Further reading

• “commission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).