Word: station Part of Speech: noun 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). Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪʃən/, /(ɪ)ʂʈeːʃən/, /(sə)ʈeːʃən/ 1. A stopping place. Example: The next station is Esperanza. 2. A stopping place. Example: It's right across from the bus station. 3. A stopping place. Example: From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor. Example: All ships are on station, Admiral. 4. A stopping place. Example: Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table. 5. A stopping place. Labels: US Example: 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. 6. A place where workers are stationed. Example: The police station is opposite the fire station. 7. A place where workers are stationed. Example: The waitress was at her station preparing three checks. Example: The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 8. A place where workers are stationed. Example: She had a boyfriend at the station. Example: 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. 9. A place where workers are stationed. Example: I used to work at a radio station. Example: I used to listen to that radio station. 10. A place where workers are stationed. Example: An Econet network is made up of a number of stations. Example: 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. 11. A place where workers are stationed. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away, Example: 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. 12. A place where workers are stationed. Labels: historical Example: 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. Example: When a man is absolutely alone in a Station he runs a certain risk of falling into evil ways. 13. Any of the Stations of the Cross. 14. 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. 15. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. Example: So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome. 16. Standing; rank; position. Example: She had ambitions beyond her station. Example: The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station. 17. A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing. Labels: Newfoundland 18. Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path. 19. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. 20. An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc. 21. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. Example: 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. 22. The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres. 23. The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis. Labels: obsolete Example: […]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…] 24. The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion. 25. A calling station. Labels: slang