posts

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of post.

   Workers drove the fence posts deep into the frozen ground.

   He read several posts on the forum before adding his own reply.

   Note

   One spelling serves a whole workshop of nouns: the fenceposts and lightposts in the ground, the studs behind a wall, the poles of a battery, the narrow pins a dentist sets into root canals. All take the same regular -s. The identical word is also the verb form in "she posts", and a determiner settles which you have: the posts are things, while someone posts a notice.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of post.

   The company posts its quarterly results online each spring.

   She posts her letters at the corner box on her way to work.

   Note

   The -s form carries every job the verb does: a clerk posts a notice on the board, a bookkeeper posts an entry from the journal to the ledger, a player posts the blind. In the sense of keeping someone informed it often takes up, so an aide posts the minister up on the details. Only he, she, it or a singular noun takes this form; every other present-tense subject uses plain post.

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