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POSTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Publicly displayed
Example:
the posted speed limit
Classified under:
Participle:
post (publicize with, or as if with, a poster)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb post
Context examples:
China’s space agency posted a photo online, showing tracks the rover left as it departed from the spacecraft.
(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)
He posted seven letters to-day.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He posted on Twitter, "Today we went to the Moon and came back to earth! I am at a loss for words for all the support I have received from all over the world."
(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)
It was a fine, calm day, though very cold; I was tired of sitting still in the library through a whole long morning: Mrs. Fairfax had just written a letter which was waiting to be posted, so I put on my bonnet and cloak and volunteered to carry it to Hay; the distance, two miles, would be a pleasant winter afternoon walk.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Tell me if, when I returned to England in the year eight, with a few thousand pounds, and was posted into the Laconia, if I had then written to you, would you have answered my letter?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It all began on June 27, when Matty Roberts posted a event invitation on social media site Facebook.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
I have given the letters; I threw them through the bars of my window with a gold piece, and made what signs I could to have them posted.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And they were posted to-day at Gravesend.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This I addressed to Highgate—for in that place, so memorable to me, he lived—and went and posted, myself, without losing a minute.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
