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station
[ stey-shuhn ]
noun
- a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
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- a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.
- the building or buildings at such a stopping place.
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- the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services:
police station; fire station; postal station.
- a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like:
gasoline station; geophysical station.
- the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing:
the responsibility of persons of high station.
- a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.
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- Radio and Television.
- a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.
- a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.
- a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster:
Tune to the Civil Defense station.
- the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.
- Military.
- a military place of duty.
- a semipermanent army post.
- Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
- (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.
- Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.
- Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., especially for raising sheep.
- Surveying.
- Also called instrument station, a point where an observation is taken.
- a precisely located reference point.
- a length of 100 feet (30 meters) along a survey line.
- a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post:
The waiter says this isn't his station.
- Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still.
verb (used with object)
- to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.
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station
/ ˈٱɪʃə /
noun
- the place or position at which a thing or person stands or is supposed to stand
- a place along a route or line at which a bus, train, etc, stops for fuel or to pick up or let off passengers or goods, esp one with ancillary buildings and services
railway station
- ( as modifier )
a station buffet
- the headquarters or local offices of an official organization such as the police or fire services
- a building, depot, etc, with special equipment for some particular purpose
television station
power station
petrol station
- military a place of duty
an action station
- navy
- a location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- an assigned location for a member of a ship's crew
- a radio or television channel
- a position or standing, as in a particular society or organization
- the type of one's occupation; calling
- (in British India) a place where the British district officials or garrison officers resided
- biology the type of habitat occupied by a particular animal or plant
- a large sheep or cattle farm
- surveying a point at which a reading is made or which is used as a point of reference
- often capital RC Church
- one of the Stations of the Cross
- any of the churches ( station churches ) in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions and ceremonies on particular days ( station days )
- plural (in rural Ireland) mass, preceded by confessions, held annually in a parishioner's dwelling and attended by other parishioners
verb
- tr to place in or assign to a station
Other Word Forms
- ٲtDz· adjective
- t·ٲtDz adjective
- ·ٲtDz verb (used with object)
- ܲ·ٲtDz verb (used with object)
- ܲ·ٲtDzed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of station1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The letter was penned by a woman called Jean from Herschell Street, Preston, who expressed her joy her "sweetheart" stationed in Wiltshire was coming home for Christmas adding she had "counted the days".
“They needed one boy next door, one fat dumb man, one fat dumb woman,” Roman said in her 2024 chat with Nashville station WTVF.
GMO corn and recently asking television stations to pull what she called “discriminatory” ads produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration.
A man who was shot dead by police at a railway station might have called officers claiming there was a gunman, a watchdog has said.
Once the last was removed, inspectors from the Office for Nuclear Regulation conducted checks before declaring the power station "nuclear free".
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