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.