(n.) 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.
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(4) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(5) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(6) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(7) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(8) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(9) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(10) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(11) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(12) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(13) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(14) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(15) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(16) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(17) A dose dependent decrease (P greater than 0.05) in delayed type hypersensitivity reaction was noticed on day 61 post treatment.
(18) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(19) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(20) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.
Prepaid
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Prepay
Example Sentences:
(1) The studies are conducted on members of a prepaid medical insurance plan, and reside in the Oakland area of California, USA.
(2) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
(3) Because of concern about the effects of prepaid care on outcomes for elderly enrollees in health maintenance organizations (HMOs), a prospective study of access to care and functional outcomes was performed.
(4) This study reports costs incurred over a nine-and-one-half-month period following the introduction of obstetrical ultrasound into a group family practice serving primarily prepaid health plan patients.
(5) Quite a few offer insurance products, cash Isas and prepaid cards.
(6) In the short run, the use of community-based mental health treatment programs need not be affected by enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in prepaid plans, providing that Medicaid program administrators take steps to minimize the disruption of ongoing treatment, offer beneficiaries a choice among prepaid plans, and encourage community treatment programs to contract with plans to serve beneficiaries.
(7) The patients were all members of a prepaid medical-care group; 84% were treated as outpatients.
(8) The author presents his views as to why prepaid care is the best method of after care for contact lens patients.
(9) This paper describes the planning efforts of a community agency that was ultimately unsuccessful in converting two primary care centers from the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement system to a per-capita prepaid Medicaid reimbursement system.
(10) Prepaid, case managed systems have been proposed as a method of controlling costs in Medicaid populations.
(11) This article compares mothers' satisfaction with children's medical care in six widely varying settings: fee-for-service solo and group practices, prepaid group practice, public clinics, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency rooms.
(12) A principal problem with previous studies that have estimated the effects of prepaid group practices (PGPs) on hospital costs and use is the treatment of PGP growth rates as an exogenous variable.
(13) Prepaid dental group practice, either independently or as part of a general health care system, has the potential of virtually eliminating edentulism in populations for which it has responsibility.
(14) Three methodologic issues (definitions of smoking, period of follow-up, composition of study group) were assessed in 426 persons five years after participation in a stop smoking program of a prepaid medical plan.
(15) The data were collected in 1981 as part of a U.S. household survey, 'A Study of Dental Health Related and Process Outcomes Associated with Prepaid Dental Care', the most comprehensive cross-sectional data base available in dentistry.
(16) The neighborhood also has been targeted as a demonstration site for an Illinois Department of Public Aid's prepaid Medicaid program.
(17) This study was designed to show what specific physician characteristics lead to patient satisfaction and to compare satisfaction of patients using either prepaid or fee-for-service modes of payment within the same settings.
(18) These economies were achieved while the prepaid group surgeons were observed to average more time per patient visit both on rounds and in the office than the community surgeons.
(19) Here, data are presented from a project which provided fully prepaid care to near poor families through existing sources in the community.
(20) These are tested using data on 3,892 individuals enrolled in the Kaiser Foundation Prepaid Health Plan of Portland, Oregon.