Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opt
ostp
post
post
adv
Sent via the postal service.
With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
noun
(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.
(UK, 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.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
(film, informal) Post-production.
(medicine, informal) A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
(now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
(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.
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
(sports) A goalpost.
(vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
A location on a basketball court near the basket.
A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
A pole in a battery.
An appointed position in an organization, job.
An assigned station; a guard post.
The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
prep
After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
verb
(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
(transitive, gambling) To pay down (the stake).
(transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
To travel quickly; to hurry.
To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
pots
pots
noun
(informal) A large quantity.
plural of pot
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pot
spot
spot
adj
(commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
noun
(US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
(finance) A decimal point; point.
(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
(in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
(soccer) Penalty spot.
(sports) An official determination of placement.
A bright lamp; a spotlight.
A difficult situation.
A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
A location or area.
A parking space.
A pimple, papule or pustule.
A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
A stain or disfiguring mark.
A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
An autosoliton.
Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
The act of spotting or noticing something.
The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
verb
(US, slang) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
(aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
(dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
(rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
(transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
(transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place an object at a location indicated by a spot.
(transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
stop
stop
noun
(UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
(architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
(engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
(fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
(linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
(photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
(photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
(photography) An f-stop.
(physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
(soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
(tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
punct
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
verb
(causative, transitive, chiefly UK) To end someone else's activity.
(finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
(intransitive) Not to continue.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
(obsolete) To punctuate.
(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
(transitive) To close or block an opening.
(transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
tops
tops
adj
(slang, dated) Great; excellent.
adv
(informal) At the very most; as a maximum.
noun
(darts) The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
plural of top
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of top
