Delegate vs. Post

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or agent.

A long piece of wood or other material set upright into the ground to serve as a marker or support.

A representative to a conference or convention.

A support for a beam in the framework of a building.

A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia legislature.

A terminal of a battery.

An elected or appointed representative of a US territory in the House of Representatives who is entitled to speak but not vote.

(Sports) A goal post.

To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.

The starting point at a racetrack.

To commit or entrust to another

The slender barlike part of a stud earring that passes through the ear and is secured at the back with a small cap or clip.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

An electronic message sent to and displayed on an online forum

A representative at a conference, etc.

A military base.

(US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.

The grounds and buildings of a military base.

(computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.

A local organization of military veterans.

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Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.

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An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry.

To authorize someone to be a delegate

(Basketball) A position usually taken by the center close to the basket or below the foul line, serving as the focus of the team's offense.

To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate

A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.

To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own

A place to which someone is assigned for duty.

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

A trading post.

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

A postal system.

Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

A post office.

To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

A delivery or amount of mail

To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback.

A person appointed or elected to represent others

A rider on such a mail route; a courier.

Transfer power to someone

To display (an announcement) in a place of public view.

Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

To cover (a wall, for example) with posters.

To announce by or as if by posters

(Computers) To make (an electronic message) available by sending it to an online forum

To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.

To denounce publicly

To publish (a name) on a list.

(Games) To gain (points or a point) in a game or contest; score.

To assign to a specific position or station

To appoint to a naval or military command.

To put forward; present

Chiefly British To mail (a letter or package).

(Archaic) To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback.

To inform of the latest news

To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping.

To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).

(Computers) To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.

To travel in stages or relays.

To travel with speed or in haste.

To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.

With great speed; rapidly.

By post horse.

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

(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.

A pole in a battery.

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.

A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.

(sports) A goalpost.

A location on a basketball court near the basket.

(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

The vertical part of a crochet stitch.

(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.

(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.

An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.

A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.

(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.

(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

An assigned station; a guard post.

An appointed position in an organization, job.

Post-production.

A post mortem investigation of body's cause of death.

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

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

(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.

To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.

To pay down (the stake).

To pay (a blind).

To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.

To travel quickly; to hurry.

To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.

(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.

To assign to a station; to set; to place.

With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.

Sent via the postal service.

After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.

The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.

An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

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.

To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.

To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.

To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;

Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;

A job in an organization;

An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;

United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)

United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)

United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)

Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;

A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);

The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;

The delivery and collection of letters and packages;

Affix in a public place or for public notice;

Publicize with, or as if with, a poster;

Assign to a post; put into a post;

Assign to a station

Display, as of records in sports games

Enter on a public list

Transfer (entries) from one account book to another

Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait

Mark with a stake;

Put up;

Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

Mark or expose as infamous;