station
sta·tion (stā′s̸hən)
noun
- the place where a person or thing stands or is located, esp. an assigned post, position, or location; specif.,
- the place where a person, as a guard, stands while on duty
- the post, building, base, or headquarters assigned to a group of people working together, as in providing a service, making scientific observations, etc. a police station, service station
- in Australia, a sheep or cattle ranch
- a place or region to which a naval fleet, ship, etc. is assigned for duty
- a post-office subdivision in a community with a main post office
- a regular stopping place, with a shelter, platform, etc., as on a bus line or railroad
- the building or buildings at such a place, for passengers, etc.
- social standing, position, or rank
- a place equipped to transmit or receive radio waves; esp., the studios, offices, and technical installations collectively of an establishment for radio or television transmission
- such an establishment
- a broadcasting frequency or channel assigned to such an establishment
- a fixed point from which measurements are made in surveying
- Archaic the fact or condition of being stationary
- Biol. a habitat, esp. the exact location of a given plant or animal
Etymology: ME stacioun < OFr station < L statio, a standing, post, station < status, pp. of stare, to stand
transitive verb
to assign to or place in a station; post
station
n.
Place
Duty
occupation, service, calling; see duty 2.Depot
Headquarters
main office, home office, base of operations; see headquarters.Social position
An establishment to vend petroleum products
gas station, service station, filling station, petrol station (British), pumps; see also garage 2.A broadcasting establishment
television station, radio station, transmitter station, radar station, broadcasting station, plant, studio, transmitter, channel; see also communications, radio 2, television.
Converse of object
- pump: At other times of the year the pools and pumping stations were filled to the brim with Great Crested Newts.
- fill: In a village we stopped at an ' independent ' filling station, meaning an old tanker parked at the side of the road.
- dock: Data exchange with a stationary PC is a standard feature via docking station or serial cable.
Preposition: at
- RAF: He was a Sergeant rigger when he was in the Far East. and Flight Lieutenant ( Eng. ) whilst stationed at RAF Warboys.
Adjective modifier
- underground: The nearest London underground stations are St Paul's or Barbican.
- mainline: There is a frequent service from Redhill to London mainline stations.
- near: The nearest station is Luton Airport Parkway which is just under 1 mile from the airport.
- nuclear: Member raised the issue of the policy on nuclear power stations.
- intermediate: The railroad opened on October 1, 1862, with one intermediate station at Watford High Street.
- local: A local TV station has started to provide stock market reports.
Preposition: into
- disrepute: You will not by any act or omission do anything, which might bring GCap or its radio stations into disrepute.
Modifies a noun
- wagon: Design characteristics SUVs were traditionally derived from light truck platforms, but have developed to have the general shape of a station wagon.
- forecourt: By train; Turn right out of station forecourt.
- platform: He has even dealt with the station bay platform track bed.
Noun used with modifier
- railroad: By Rail: Ipswich railroad station is about a fifteen minute walk.
- radio: Rocky Radio is the official radio station for Gretna Football Club.
- police: With the police station on your left you will see Derby Road going down the hill.
- gasoline: Take the second exit, to the left of the gasoline station, into Malvern Road.
- polling: The polling station, a local school, is just a short walk away.
- train: Gatwick Airport Car Rental Train There isn't actually a train station at Luton Airport.
'Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Rambleö Divides abode with meö No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.
The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station.
Type of a coming nation, In the land of cattle and sheep, Worked on Middleton's station, 'Pound a week and his keep.'
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