station

IPA: stˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • A stopping place.
  • A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
  • A ground transportation depot.
  • A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
  • A place where some object is provided.
  • (US) A gas station, service station.
  • A place where workers are stationed.
  • An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
  • A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
  • A military base.
  • A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
  • (historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
  • (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
  • (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
  • (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
  • Standing; rank; position.
  • (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
  • (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
  • The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
  • (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
  • Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
  • (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
  • (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
  • (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

verb

  • (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
  • To put in place to perform military duty.
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Examples of "station" in Sentences

  • The station consists of a makeshift bus shelter.
  • The underpass accommodates the Bailrigg bus station.
  • The crossover tracks north of the station are not used.
  • The bus station is across the road from the taxi stand.
  • These depart from the bus station at the front of the station.
  • The new part of the theatre complex was the site of the old bus station.
  • The station was the busiest railway station on the whole overhead network.
  • Stations on the ground tracked the fluorescent zinc cadmium sulfide particles.
  • The station building is elevated on an overpass above the platforms and tracks.
  • Floods inundated railway tracks at numerous railway stations in Jakarta as a result of heavy downpour in capital.

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