station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: stations
Etymology: From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).
Senses: examples: text: The next station is Esperanza.
glosses: A stopping place.
A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
examples: text: It's right across from the bus station.
glosses: A stopping place.
A ground transportation depot.
examples: text: From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
text: All ships are on station, Admiral.
text: "[…]Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A stopping place.
A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
examples: text: Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
glosses: A stopping place.
A place where some object is provided.
examples: text: Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
ref: 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:
glosses: A stopping place.
A gas station, service station.
examples: text: The police station is opposite the fire station.
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
examples: text: The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
text: The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
examples: text: She had a boyfriend at the station.
text: The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
ref: 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
A military base.
examples: text: I used to work at a radio station.
text: I used to listen to that radio station.
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
examples: text: An Econet network is made up of a number of stations.
text: When entering a LOAD/SAVE/FORMAT, etc command you not only had to identify the destination of the data (ie, microdrive, network or RS232), but the number of the drive or station too.
ref: 2012, Colin Woodcock, The ZX Spectrum on Your PC, page 16:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
A device communicating over a network; a host.
examples: text: There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
ref: 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River:
text: 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,
Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.
text: The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.
ref: 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654:
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
A very large sheep or cattle farm.
examples: text: It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.
ref: 1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:
text: When a man is absolutely alone in a Station he runs a certain risk of falling into evil ways.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 60:
glosses: A place where workers are stationed.
In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Any of the Stations of the Cross.
topics: Christianity
glosses: 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.
examples: text: So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.
ref: 1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Life of Saint Werburge of Chester:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
examples: text: She had ambitions beyond her station.
text: The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: And they in France of the best rank and station
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Standing; rank; position.
glosses: A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
examples: text: Moreover, by spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.
ref: 1704, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, New, Revised and Corrected edition, published 1837, page 18:
glosses: Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
examples: text: […]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…]
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
glosses: The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Synonyms: sense: broadcasting entity; that broadcasts television
word: channel
sense: ground transport depot
word: sta
sense: ground transport depot
word: stn
sense: military base
word: base
sense: military base
word: military base
sense: large sheep or cattle farm
word: farm
sense: large sheep or cattle farm
word: ranch
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from station (noun)
word: above one's station
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word: action stations
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word: aeronautical station
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word: aid station
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word: aircraft station
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word: baby changing station
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word: base station
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word: base station subsystem
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word: battle station
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word: battle stations
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word: bike station
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word: break-of-gauge station
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word: broadcast station
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word: bus station
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word: cable station
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word: calling station
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word: cattle station
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word: charging station
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word: clearing station
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word: coach station
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word: coaling station
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word: comfort station
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word: docking station
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word: dog station
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word: dressing station
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word: earth station
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word: Ferryhill Station
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word: filling station
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word: fire station
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word: flag station
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word: fueling station
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word: fuelling station
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word: fuel station
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word: gasoline station
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word: gas station
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word: ghost station
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word: goods station
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word: ground station
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word: guard station
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word: Hart Station
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word: head station
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word: hill station
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word: hill-station
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word: hydrogen station
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word: lactation station
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word: Lake Station
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word: light station
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word: listening station
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word: McMurdo Station
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word: meal station
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word: metro station
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word: Micheldever Station
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word: mission station
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word: mobile station
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word: motor station
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word: nuclear power station
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word: numbers station
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word: ocean station vessel
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word: out of station
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word: outstation
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word: packet station
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word: panic stations
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word: petrol filling station
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word: petrol station
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word: PlayStation
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word: Playstation
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word: police station
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word: polling station
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word: pony keg station
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word: postal station
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word: power station
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word: pull station
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word: pumping station
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word: radar station
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word: radio station
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word: railroad station
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word: railway station
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word: Ratho Station
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word: recycling station
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word: relay station
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word: run of station
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word: service station
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word: sheep station
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word: social station
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word: space station
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word: spacestation
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word: state
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word: stationary
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word: station bill
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word: station break
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word: station car
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word: station chef
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word: station hand
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word: station house
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word: station-house
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word: stationkeeping
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word: stationmaster
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word: stationmistress
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word: station pointer
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word: station sedan
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word: Stations of the Cross
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word: station staff
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word: station throat
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word: station time
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word: station-to-station
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word: station to station
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word: Station Town
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word: station wagon
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word: stationward
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word: stationwoman
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word: storage power station
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word: storage station
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word: substation
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word: sub-station
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word: subway station
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word: swing station
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word: television station
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word: TV station
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word: terminal station
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word: that train has already left the station
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word: that train has left the station
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word: through station
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word: total station
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word: train station
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word: triangulation station
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word: trigonometrical station
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word: Tube station
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word: Udny Station
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word: underground station
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word: union station
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word: Uphall Station
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word: urination station
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word: vehicle station
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word: voting station
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word: way-station
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word: way station
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word: waystation
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word: weather station
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word: weigh station
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word: whaling station
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word: Widdrington Station
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word: wind power station
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word: work station
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word: workstation
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word: X station
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word: zero station
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word: Zhongshan Station