Dispatch vs. Post — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dispatch and Post
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Definitions
Dispatch➦
Send off to a destination or for a purpose
The government dispatched 150 police to restore order
He dispatched messages back to base
Post➦
A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker
Follow the blue posts until the track meets a road
Dispatch➦
Deal with (a task or opponent) quickly and efficiently
The Welsh team were dispatched comfortably by the opposition
Post➦
A piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application
In a recent post, he cautioned investors to be wary of these predictions
Dispatch➦
The sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose
A resolution authorizing the dispatch of a peacekeeping force
Post➦
The official service or system that delivers letters and parcels
The tickets are in the post
Winners will be notified by post
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Dispatch➦
An official report on state or military affairs
In his battle dispatch he described the gunner's bravery
Post➦
Each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.
Dispatch➦
The killing of someone or something
The executioner's merciful dispatch of his victims
Post➦
A position of paid employment; a job
He resigned from the post of Foreign Minister
A teaching post
Dispatch➦
To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business.
Post➦
A place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out
A customs post
A shift worker asleep at his post
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Dispatch➦
A written message, particularly an official communication, sent with speed.
Post➦
The status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy
Captain Miller was made post in 1796
Dispatch➦
An important message sent by a diplomat or an officer in the armed forces.
Post➦
Display (a notice) in a public place
A curt notice had been posted on the door
Dispatch➦
A news item sent to a news organization, as by a correspondent.
Post➦
Announce or publish (something, especially a financial result)
The company posted a £460,000 loss
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
Post➦
(of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result)
Smith and Lamb posted a century partnership
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
Post➦
Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system
Post off your order form today
I've just been to post a letter
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
Post➦
(in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger
Post the transaction in the second column
Initial records kept in day books are periodically posted to accounts
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
Post➦
Travel with relays of horses
We posted in an open carriage
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Post➦
Send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment
He was posted to Washington as military attaché
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To rid; to free.
Post➦
With haste
Come now, come post
Dispatch➦
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
Post➦
Subsequent to; after
American poetry post the 1950s hasn't had the same impact
Dispatch➦
To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
Post➦
A long piece of wood or other material set upright into the ground to serve as a marker or support.
Dispatch➦
To hurry.
Post➦
A support for a beam in the framework of a building.
Dispatch➦
To deprive.
Post➦
A terminal of a battery.
Dispatch➦
A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
Post➦
(Sports) A goal post.
Dispatch➦
The act of doing something quickly.
We must act with dispatch in this matter.
Post➦
The starting point at a racetrack.
Dispatch➦
A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
Post➦
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.
Dispatch➦
(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
Post➦
An electronic message sent to and displayed on an online forum
Ignored several inflammatory posts.
Dispatch➦
(obsolete) A dismissal.
Post➦
A military base.
Dispatch➦
To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch weThe business we have talked of.
[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
Post➦
The grounds and buildings of a military base.
Dispatch➦
To rid; to free.
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
Post➦
A local organization of military veterans.
Dispatch➦
To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets.
Post➦
Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.
Dispatch➦
To send off or away; - particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
Even with the speediest expeditionI will dispatch him to the emperor's cou .
Post➦
An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry.
Dispatch➦
To send out of the world; to put to death.
The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords.
Post➦
(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.
Dispatch➦
To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
They have dispatched with Pompey.
Post➦
A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.
Dispatch➦
The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
Post➦
A place to which someone is assigned for duty.
Dispatch➦
Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.
Post➦
A trading post.
Dispatch➦
The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch.
To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.
Post➦
A postal system.
Dispatch➦
A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; - often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
Post➦
A post office.
Dispatch➦
A message transmitted by telegraph.
Post➦
A delivery or amount of mail
Waiting for the morning's post to arrive.
Dispatch➦
An official report (usually sent in haste)
Post➦
One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback.
Dispatch➦
The act of sending off something
Post➦
A rider on such a mail route; a courier.
Dispatch➦
The property of being prompt and efficient;
It was done with dispatch
Post➦
To display (an announcement) in a place of public view.
Dispatch➦
Killing a person or animal
Post➦
To cover (a wall, for example) with posters.
Dispatch➦
Send away towards a designated goal
Post➦
To announce by or as if by posters
Post banns.
Dispatch➦
Complete or carry out;
Discharge one's duties
Post➦
(Computers) To make (an electronic message) available by sending it to an online forum
Posted a response to a question about car engines.
Dispatch➦
Kill intentionally and with premeditation;
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
Post➦
To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.
Dispatch➦
Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;
He dispatched the task he was assigned
Post➦
To denounce publicly
Post a man as a thief.
Dispatch➦
Kill without delay;
The traitor was dispatched by the conspirators
Post➦
To publish (a name) on a list.
Post➦
(Games) To gain (points or a point) in a game or contest; score.
Post➦
To assign to a specific position or station
Post a sentry at the gate.
Post➦
To appoint to a naval or military command.
Post➦
To put forward; present
Post bail.
Post➦
Chiefly British To mail (a letter or package).
Post➦
(Archaic) To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback.
Post➦
To inform of the latest news
Keep us posted.
Post➦
To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping.
Post➦
To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).
Post➦
(Computers) To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.
Post➦
To travel in stages or relays.
Post➦
To travel with speed or in haste.
Post➦
To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
Post➦
With great speed; rapidly.
Post➦
By post horse.
Post➦
A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
Ram a post into the ground
Post➦
(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
Post➦
A pole in a battery.
Post➦
(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
Post➦
A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
Post➦
A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
Post➦
(sports) A goalpost.
Post➦
A location on a basketball court near the basket.
Post➦
(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
Post➦
The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
Post➦
(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.
Post➦
(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
A stage or railway post
Post➦
A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
Post➦
Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
Post➦
An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
Sent via post; parcel post
Post➦
A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
Post➦
A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
Post➦
(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.
Two of the receivers ran post patterns.
Post➦
(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
Post➦
(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
Post➦
An assigned station; a guard post.
Post➦
An appointed position in an organization, job.
Post➦
Post-production.
We'll fix it in post
Post➦
A post mortem investigation of body's cause of death.
Post➦
(transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
Post no bills.
Post➦
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
To post someone for cowardice
Post➦
(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
Post➦
To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
Post➦
To pay down (the stake).
Post➦
To pay (a blind).
Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
Post➦
To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
Post➦
To travel quickly; to hurry.
Post➦
To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.
Post➦
(horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
Post➦
(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.
Post➦
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
Post➦
To assign to a station; to set; to place.
Post a sentinel in front of the door.
Post➦
With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
Post➦
Sent via the postal service.
Post➦
After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
Post➦
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
Post➦
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.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses.
Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore,The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.
Unto his order he was a noble post.
Post➦
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
When God sends coinI will discharge your post.
Post➦
The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
Post➦
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.
In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,Receiving them from such a worthless post.
Post➦
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.
I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.
Post➦
Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
Post➦
One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
Post➦
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
The post of honor is a private station.
Post➦
A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
Post➦
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.
Post➦
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
On pain of being posted to your sorrowFail not, at four, to meet me.
Post➦
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
Post➦
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
Post➦
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
You have not posted your books these ten years.
Post➦
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
Post➦
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; - often with up.
Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.
Post➦
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
Post➦
To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
Post➦
With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Post➦
The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;
A soldier manned the entrance post
A sentry station
Post➦
Military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;
This military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby
There is an officer's club on the post
Post➦
A job in an organization;
He occupied a post in the treasury
Post➦
An upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;
He set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them
Post➦
United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)
Post➦
United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)
Post➦
United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)
Post➦
Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;
Your mail is on the table
Is there any post for me?
She was opening her post
Post➦
A pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);
A pair of posts marked the goal
The corner of the lot was indicated by a stake
Post➦
The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;
The mail handles billions of items every day
He works for the United States mail service
In England they call mail `the post'
Post➦
The delivery and collection of letters and packages;
It came by the first post
If you hurry you'll catch the post
Post➦
Affix in a public place or for public notice;
Post a warning
Post➦
Publicize with, or as if with, a poster;
I'll post the news on the bulletin board
Post➦
Assign to a post; put into a post;
The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu
Post➦
Assign to a station
Post➦
Display, as of records in sports games
Post➦
Enter on a public list
Post➦
Transfer (entries) from one account book to another
Post➦
Ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
Post➦
Mark with a stake;
Stake out the path
Post➦
Put up;
Post a sign
Post a warning at the dump
Post➦
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;
Send me your latest results
I'll mail you the paper when it's written
Post➦
Mark or expose as infamous;
She was branded a loose woman