station
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English estacioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
station (plural stations)
- (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
- the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time [...].
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
- A stopping place
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- The next station is Esperanza.
- A ground transportation depot.
- It's right across from the bus station.
- One of the Stations of the Cross.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
- All ships are on station, Admiral.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- "...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."
- A place where one performs a tasks or where one is on call to perform a task.
- The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
- Standing; rank; position.
- She had ambitions beyond her station.
- A military base.
- She had a boyfriend at the station.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- I used to work at a radio station.
- A broadcasting entity.
- I used to listen to that radio station.
- (US) A gas station, service station
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- 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.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
- 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.
- 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,
- 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.
- 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
- (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.
Synonyms [edit]
- (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
- (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation)
- (military base): base, military base
- (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from station (noun)
Translations [edit]
place where a vehicle may stop
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place where one stands or stays
place used for broadcasting
broadcasting entity
Australia: very large livestock farm — see ranch
References [edit]
- “station” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. (Newfoundland station)
Verb [edit]
station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)
- To put in place to perform a task.
- The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
- 2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, The Guardian:
- 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
- To put in place to perform military duty.
- They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
Translations [edit]
To put in place to perform a task
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French estacion, borrowed from Latin statio, stationem.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
station f (plural stations)
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Swedish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
station c
Declension [edit]
Declension of station
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | station | stationen | stationer | stationerna |
| genitive | stations | stationens | stationers | stationernas |
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