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Station

Noun

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1.NounA stopping place. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
"The next station is Esperanza.; It's right across from the bus station.; From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.; All ships are on station, Admiral.; Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table."
2.NounA regular stopping place for ground transportation.
"The next station is Esperanza."
3.NounA ground transportation depot.
"It's right across from the bus station."
4.NounA 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."
5.NounA place where some object is provided.
"Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table."
6.NounA gas station, service station.
7.NounA place where workers are stationed. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
"The police station is opposite the fire station.; 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.; She had a boyfriend at the station.; I used to work at a radio station.; I used to listen to that radio station.; An Econet network is made up of a number of stations."
8.NounAn official building from which police or firefighters operate.
"The police station is opposite the fire station."
9.NounA place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
"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."
10.NounA military base.
"She had a boyfriend at the station."
11.NounA place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
"I used to work at a radio station.; I used to listen to that radio station."
12.NounA device communicating over a network; a host.
"An Econet network is made up of a number of stations."
13.NounA very large sheep or cattle farm.
14.NounIn British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
15.NounAny of the Stations of the Cross.
16.NounThe 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.
17.NounA church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
18.NounStanding; rank; position.
"She had ambitions beyond her station."
19.NounA harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
20.NounAny of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
21.NounThe particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
22.NounAn enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
23.NounPost assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
24.NounThe position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
25.NounThe fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
26.NounThe apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
27.NounA calling station.
28.VerbTo put in place to perform a task.
"The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.; I was stationed on the pier."
29.VerbTo put in place to perform military duty.
"They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.; I was stationed at Fort Richie."
30.VerbTo play in the manner of a calling station.
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