Meaning of station | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stopping place.
2. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
3. To assign to a position; post.
4. A ground transportation depot.
5. To appoint and send to a particular place:assign, post, set.
6. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
7. to put (a person, oneself, troops etc in a place or position to perform some duty). He stationed himself at the corner of the road to keep watch; The regiment is stationed abroad. plaas, stasioneer يَضَع، يُرَكِّز разполагам postar zajmout místo; rozmístit aufstellen stille; placere τοποθετώ στη θέση καθήκοντος panema, paigutama در پستي گماشتن asemoida poster לְהָצִיב नियुक्त करना, तैनात करना smjestiti, stacionirati (trupe) (el)helyez, állít menempatkan staðsetja collocarsi, posizionarsi 配置する...
   etc
8. A place where some object is provided.
9. standing still, not moving. a stationary vehicle. stilstaande مُتَوَقِّف، مُسْتَقِر неподвижвн estacionário nehybný stehend stationær; stillestående σταθμευμένος, σε στάση liikumatu ساكن paikallaan pysyvä stationnaireנייח स्थिर, निश्चल, अचल nepokretan, nepomičan mozdulatlan, álló; állandó stasioner kyrrstæður stazionario 静止した 정지된 stovintis stacionārs; nekustīgs tidak bergerak stationairstilleståendenieruchomy estacionário staţionar неподвижный nehybný mirujoč nepomičan stillastående ซึ่งหยุดน...
10. A gas station, service station.
    US
11. estación;nursing ___ → puesto de enfermeras.
12. A place where workers are stationed.
13. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
14. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
15. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post: a sentry station.
16. A military base.
17. The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed: a police station.
18. A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
19. A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.
20. A device communicating over a network; a host.
21. Australian & New Zealand A large ranch on which livestock, especially cattle or sheep, are raised.
    Australian & New Zealand
22. A very large sheep or cattle farm.
    Australia, New-Zealand
23. Social position; rank: "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).
24. In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
    historical
25. Any of the Stations of the Cross.
26. 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.
27. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
28. Standing; rank; position.
29. A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
    Newfoundland
30. Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
31. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
32. An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
33. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
34. The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
35. The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
    obsolete
36. The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“'[…] 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.”

“Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So dyd Offa[…]Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons of the cytee of Rome.”

“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”

“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.”

“[…]the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time[…]”

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