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.
  • Despite that, I still think the Tottori confession at the train station from the anime was so much better.
  • In addition to the subway, like the airport, the train station is always a great place to people watch as well.
  • Floods inundated railway tracks at numerous railway stations in Jakarta as a result of heavy downpour in capital.
  • The train station is normally an half hour away, but with traffic being extra heavy, it took a full hour and a half.
  • Unlike other automakers, Fisker even uses the term "station wagon" to describe it, clearly not shying away from any stigma that might have.
  • Response:I've included an image here of the relative location of the station (red arrow) and where Steve showed the fictitious “airport asos station” (green arrow).
  • At Harrow, the District Railway built its station in Roxeth and named it South Harrow, while in the hamlet of Hooking Green the Metropolitan Railway called its ­station North Harrow.
  • I could agree to one thing: if you computed trends per station that is: a trend for *each station* and if the station bias was constant over time – then the bias would not affect the trend.
  • The closest I got to Science Fiction was travelling to Birmingham on a busy weekend, walking down to street level from out of the shopping centre that the train station is encased in, deep into a busy bottlenecked crowd that felt like …
  • In space a station is required to maintain order, while a side organization supplies that station from the moon, while other corporations operate shuttle and repair services to satellites and allowing Naval facility on the moon to operate the mini-three man ships to reach orbit with levelled operations which reach orbit and the moon.

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