station
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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).
Inflected forms:
form: stations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stations
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stationing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stationed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stationed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stopping place.
pos: noun
examples: The next station is Esperanza.
gloss: A stopping place.
pos: noun
examples: It's right across from the bus station.
gloss: A stopping place.
pos: noun
examples: From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
'[…] 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.'
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.
gloss: A stopping place.
pos: noun
examples: Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
gloss: A stopping place.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
examples: The police station is opposite the fire station.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
examples: The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
examples: She had a boyfriend at the station.
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.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
examples: I used to work at a radio station.
I used to listen to that radio station.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
examples: An Econet network is made up of a number of stations.
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.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
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.
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.
gloss: A place where workers are stationed.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
When a man is absolutely alone in a Station he runs a certain risk of falling into evil ways.
gloss: Any of the Stations of the Cross.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
pos: noun
examples: So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.
gloss: Standing; rank; position.
pos: noun
examples: She had ambitions beyond her station.
The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.
And they in France of the best rank and station
gloss: A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
pos: noun
tags: Newfoundland
gloss: Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
pos: noun
gloss: The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
pos: noun
gloss: An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
pos: noun
gloss: The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…]
gloss: The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
pos: noun
gloss: A calling station.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To put in place to perform a task.
pos: verb
tags: passive
transitive
usually
examples: The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
I was stationed on the pier.
Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night.
In 1923, the first of H. P. M. Beames's massive 0-8-4 tanks appeared in South Wales, for which area they had been mainly designed, and about twenty were usually stationed in the area, being freely used on both passenger and freight duties, until their gradual supersession by ex-L.N.W.R. 0-8-0s began about 1937.
The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone
gloss: To put in place to perform military duty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
I was stationed at Fort Richie.
gloss: To play in the manner of a calling station.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Synonyms: affix
anchor
appoint
base
deploy
deposit
embed
establish
fix
graft
imbed
install
load
localize
locate
place
position
post
put
relocate
reposit
set
site
situate
station
Antonyms: displace
remove
Related words: move
Derived words: misstation
restation
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: астанциа
roman: astʼancja
lang: Afrikaans
word: stasie
lang: Albanian
word: stacion
lang: Albanian
word: ndalesë
lang: Amharic
word: ኬላ
roman: kela
lang: Amharic
word: መናኸሪያ
roman: mänaxäriya
lang: Arabic
word: مَحَطَّة
roman: maḥaṭṭa
lang: Arabic
word: محطة
roman: maḥaṭa
lang: Arabic
word: موقف
roman: mauʔaff
lang: Arabic
word: مَحَطَّة
roman: maḥaṭṭa
lang: Armenian
word: կանգառ
roman: kangaṙ
lang: Armenian
word: կայարան
roman: kayaran
lang: Armenian
word: վոկզալ
roman: vokzal
lang: Asturian
word: estación
lang: Azerbaijani
word: stansiya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: vağzal
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dayanacaq
lang: Basque
word: geltoki
lang: Belarusian
word: ста́нцыя
roman: stáncyja
lang: Belarusian
word: вакза́л
roman: vakzál
lang: Belarusian
word: прыпы́нак
roman: prypýnak
lang: Belarusian
word: дварэ́ц
roman: dvaréc
lang: Bengali
word: স্টেশন
roman: sṭeśon
lang: Bulgarian
word: ста́нция
roman: stáncija
lang: Bulgarian
word: га́ра
roman: gára
lang: Bulgarian
word: спи́рка
roman: spírka
lang: Burmese
word: ဘူတာရုံ
roman: bhutarum
lang: Burmese
word: ကားဂိတ်
roman: ka:git
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: ста́нція
roman: stáncija
lang: Catalan
word: estació
lang: Chechen
word: станци
roman: stanci
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 站
roman: zaam⁶
lang: Chinese
word: зан
roman: zan
lang: Chinese
word: зандо
roman: zando
lang: Chinese
word: станция
roman: stancii͡a
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 站
roman: câng
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 站
roman: cham
lang: Chinese
word: 站
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese
word: 頭 /头
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 站
roman: zhàn
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 站頭 /站头
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 站
roman: ⁶ze
lang: Corsican
word: stazione
lang: Czech
word: nádraží
lang: Czech
word: zastávka
lang: Czech
word: stanice
lang: Danish
word: station
lang: Dutch
word: station
lang: Dutch
word: halte
lang: Esperanto
word: stacio
lang: Esperanto
word: stacidomo
lang: Estonian
word: jaam
lang: Estonian
word: peatus
lang: Estonian
word: vaksal
lang: Finnish
word: asema
lang: French
word: gare
lang: French
word: station
lang: Galician
word: estación
lang: Georgian
word: სადგური
roman: sadguri
lang: Georgian
word: ვაგზალი
roman: vagzali
lang: German
word: Bahnhof
lang: German
word: Station
lang: Greek
word: σταθμός
roman: stathmós
lang: Greek
word: στάθμευση
roman: státhmefsi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σταθμός
roman: stathmós
lang: Gujarati
word: સ્ટેશન
roman: sṭeśan
lang: Hebrew
word: תַּחֲנָה
roman: takhaná
lang: Hindi
word: स्टेशन
roman: sṭeśan
lang: Hungarian
word: állomás
lang: Icelandic
word: stöð
lang: Ido
word: staciono
lang: Indonesian
word: stasiun
lang: Interlingua
word: station
lang: Irish
word: stáisiún
lang: Italian
word: stazione
lang: Italian
word: fermata
lang: Japanese
word: 駅
roman: eki
lang: Japanese
word: 停留所
roman: teiryūjo
lang: Japanese
word: 停車場
lang: Japanese
word: 宿場
roman: shukuba
lang: Kannada
word: ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ
roman: nildāṇa
lang: Kazakh
word: станция
roman: stansiä
lang: Kazakh
word: бекет
roman: beket
lang: Kazakh
word: станса
roman: stansa
lang: Kazakh
word: аялдама
roman: aäldama
lang: Kazakh
word: вокзал
roman: vokzal
lang: Khmer
word: ស្ថានីយ
roman: sthaanii
lang: Khmer
word: ជំហប់
roman: cumhup
lang: Khmer
word: ចំណត
roman: cɑmnɑɑt
lang: Khmer
word: ដំណាក់
roman: dɑmnak
lang: Korean
word: 터미널
roman: teomineol
lang: Korean
word: 정류장
roman: jeongnyujang
lang: Korean
word: 역
roman: yeok
lang: Korean
word: 정거장
roman: jeonggeojang
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئێستگە
roman: êstge
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: îstasyon
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: îstgeh
lang: Kyrgyz
word: станция
roman: stantsiya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аялдама
roman: ayaldama
lang: Kyrgyz
word: вокзал
roman: vokzal
lang: Lao
word: ສະຖານີ
roman: sa thā nī
lang: Latvian
word: stacija
lang: Lithuanian
word: stotis
lang: Lü
word: ᦈᦱᧃᧈ
roman: ṫsaan¹
lang: Macedonian
word: станица
roman: stanica
lang: Malay
word: stesen
lang: Malay
word: balai
lang: Malayalam
word: സ്റ്റേഷൻ
roman: sṟṟēṣaṉ
lang: Maltese
word: l-istazzjon
lang: Maltese
word: stazzjon
lang: Māori
word: teihana
lang: Marathi
word: स्थानक
roman: sthānak
lang: Marathi
word: स्टेशन
roman: sṭeśan
lang: Mongolian
word: өртөө
roman: örtöö
lang: Mongolian
word: станц
roman: stanc
lang: Mongolian
word: вокзал
roman: vokzal
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡ
roman: örtege
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠨᠼᠢ
roman: stanci
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠸᠣᠻᠽᠠᠯ
roman: wokzal
lang: Neapolitan
word: stazzione
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stasjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: stasjon
lang: Odia
word: ଷ୍ଟେସନ
roman: ṣṭesana
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: станїца
roman: stanjica
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: штация
roman: štacija
lang: Pashto
word: ټيسن
roman: ṭesan
lang: Pashto
word: سټېشن
roman: sṭešan
lang: Pashto
word: اېستګا
roman: estgā
lang: Pashto
word: تمځای
roman: tamźāy
lang: Dari
word: اِیسْتْگَاه
roman: īstgāh
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ایسْتْگاه
roman: istgâh
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Stazion
lang: Polish
word: dworzec
lang: Polish
word: stacja
lang: Polish
word: przystanek
lang: Portuguese
word: estação
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ
roman: sṭeśan
lang: Punjabi
word: سٹیشَن
roman: sṭeśan
lang: Romanian
word: stație
lang: Romanian
word: gară
lang: Romansh
word: staziun
lang: Russian
word: остано́вка
roman: ostanóvka
lang: Russian
word: ста́нция
roman: stáncija
lang: Russian
word: вокза́л
roman: vokzál
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: stèisean
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ста̀ница
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ко̏лодво̄р
roman: railway
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stànica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kȍlodvōr
lang: Sinhalese
word: ඉස්ටේසම
roman: isṭēsama
lang: Slovak
word: stanica
lang: Slovak
word: zastávka
lang: Slovak
word: nádražie
lang: Slovene
word: postaja
lang: Southern Altai
word: станция
roman: stanciya
lang: Southern Altai
word: вокзал
roman: vokzal
lang: Southern Altai
word: турар јер
roman: turar ǰer
lang: Spanish
word: estación
lang: Swahili
word: kituo
lang: Swedish
word: station
lang: Tagalog
word: estasyon
lang: Tagalog
word: himpilan
lang: Tajik
word: истгоҳ
roman: istgoh
lang: Tajik
word: вокзал
roman: vokzal
lang: Tamil
word: நிலையம்
roman: nilaiyam
lang: Tatar
word: станция
roman: stantsiyä
lang: Tatar
word: вокзал
roman: woqzal
lang: Telugu
word: స్టేషన్
roman: sṭēṣan
lang: Thai
word: สถานี
roman: sà-tǎa-nii
lang: Tibetan
word: བབ་ཚུགས
roman: bab tshugs
lang: Tigrinya
word: መደበር
roman: mädäbär
lang: Turkish
word: durak
lang: Turkish
word: istasyon
lang: Turkish
word: gar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوراق
roman: durak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: استاسیون
roman: istasyon
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: غار
roman: gar
lang: Turkmen
word: stansiýa
lang: Turkmen
word: stantsiýa
lang: Turkmen
word: wokzal
lang: Turkmen
word: duralga
lang: Ukrainian
word: ста́нція
roman: stáncija
lang: Ukrainian
word: вокза́л
roman: vokzál
lang: Ukrainian
word: зупи́нка
roman: zupýnka
lang: Ukrainian
word: дворе́ць
roman: dvorécʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: двіре́ць
roman: dvirécʹ
lang: Urdu
word: مُسْتَقَر
roman: mustaqar
lang: Urdu
word: اِیسْتْگاہ
roman: īstgāh
lang: Urdu
word: اِسْٹیشَن
roman: isṭeśan
lang: Urdu
word: اَڈّا
roman: aḍḍā
lang: Uyghur
word: ئىستانسا
roman: istansa
lang: Uyghur
word: بېكەت
roman: bëket
lang: Uyghur
word: ۋوگزال
roman: wogzal
lang: Uzbek
word: stantsiya
lang: Uzbek
word: bekat
lang: Uzbek
word: ostanovka
lang: Uzbek
word: vokzal
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhà ga
lang: Vietnamese
word: bến
lang: Vietnamese
word: trạm
lang: Vietnamese
word: ga
lang: Welsh
word: gorsaf
lang: Yiddish
word: סטאַנציע
roman: stantsye
lang: Yiddish
word: וואָקזאַל
roman: vokzal
lang: Zhuang
word: ndwn
lang: Zhuang
word: camh