post vs wing

post

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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 pole in a battery. 

  • The vertical part of a crochet stitch. 

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

  • A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches. 

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

  • A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death). 

  • A goalpost. 

  • An appointed position in an organization, job. 

  • A stud; a two-by-four. 

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

  • A location on a basketball court near the basket. 

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

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

  • Post-production. 

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

  • An assigned station; a guard post. 

verb
  • To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. 

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

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

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

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

  • To pay down (the stake). 

  • To pay (a blind). 

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

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

  • 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 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. 

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

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. 

wing

noun
  • A position in several field games on either side of the field. 

  • A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish 

  • One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. 

  • A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels. 

  • An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly 

  • Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. 

  • A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons. 

  • Passage by flying; flight. 

  • A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs. 

  • Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. 

  • A player occupying such a position, also called a winger 

  • A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building. 

  • A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point. 

  • That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle. 

  • A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position. 

  • Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. 

  • Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion. 

  • An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot. 

  • A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station. 

  • One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish. 

  • The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member. 

  • Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. 

  • A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another. 

  • One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre. 

  • A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage. 

  • Human arm. 

  • On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype. 

  • A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides. 

  • A háček. 

verb
  • To throw. 

  • To add a wing (extra part) to. 

  • To furnish with wings. 

  • To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. 

  • To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it. 

  • To traverse by flying. 

  • To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily. 

  • To fly. 

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