Depot

Definition: Depot

Depot

Noun

1. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.

2. A depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "depot" was first used: 1795. (references)

Engineering & Technology

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Depot

Focus

Noun: focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; (store); trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue.

Journey

Depot, railway station, station.

Mart

Warehouse, wareroom; depot, interposit, entrepot.

Store

Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie.

Crosswords: Depot

Afrikaan (depot), Dutch (affiliate, affiliation, branch, depository), German (deposit, depository, depot, dump, magazine, securities deposit account, strong room, warehouse), Indonesian (refreshment stand).

Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips)

Home Depot. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

In a bar in Toledo,across from the depot, (Lucille; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Boggy Depot (1973)

Drafted in the Depot (1940)

Union Depot (1932)

Atlantic City Busses Leaving R.R. Depot (1896)

Depot (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Home Depot Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Office Depot Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• PC Depot Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Credit Depot Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Inside Home Depot (reference)

• The Home Depot Big Book of Tools (reference)

• The Home Depot Landscaping 1-2-3: Regional Edition Zones 7-10 (reference)

• The Home Depot Outdoor Projects 1-2-3 (reference)

• The Us 8th Air Force at Warton 1942-1945: The World's Greatest Air Depot (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Depot of the Dead (Baza Ludzi Umarlych) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Down at the Depot (reference)

• White Water Depot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Image Depot 2001 8.2 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

• Office Depot CD-RW With Jewel Cases, 700MB/80 Minutes, 1x-4x, Pack Of 12 (reference)

• Office Depot Model OD26A (51626A) Remanufactured Black Ink Cartridge (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Diaper Depot (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"The Motor Hauling Stores for a Depot". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume II, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 86. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The fuel depot at Colonia - the capital city of Yap. Credit: Small World.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 20, Chatel Guyon, France. : Medical supply depot, records and supplies. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Red Cross depot, Gungalin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Alongside the Pearl Harbor Supply Depot, 17 September 1941. Credit: NAVY.

Checks material against a manifest, alongside a railroad car at the Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, California, circa mid-1945. Credit: NAVY.

C.R.I. & P. Depot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baltimore & Potomac RR Depot at 6th and Missouri Ave., where President Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, 2 July 1881, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cedar Level, Va. Commissary depot with supply train wagons. Credit: Library of Congress.

Richmond, Va. Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Wherever you may locate, in the outskirts of a capital, a railroad depot, it is the death of a suburb and the birth of a city

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Business

For example, Sport Depot, in connection with E-mart, is targeting the sporting goods category. (references)

The Army Missile Service Division has the depot maintenance capability for the Hawk and Patriot missiles. (references)

CSX operates a large container depot in the Port of Shanghai in partnership with the Shanghai Harbor Bureau. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The Government also reportedly withheld depot legal to remove from circulation books that it deemed critical of the Government. (references)

Algeria

On June 14, the Government dispersed with tear gas and water cannons a march of more than 250,000 protesters after small groups of marchers became violent and burned and later destroyed property and looted a police station, a bus depot, and stores and businesses. (references)

Economic History

Thailand

The only visible American entities are 7 Eleven franchises (Convenience) and Office Depot (Cash and Carry). (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

In June the mayor of Nizhniy Tagil signed a decree liquidating the MAT depot, although the depot continued to operate. (references)

Morocco

In August 2000, during labor unrest near Casablanca, the nephew of a private transportation company owner drove a bus into a crowd of striking workers, killing 3 persons and injuring 12, in an attempt to end the occupation and obstruction of the company's bus depot. (references)

Russia

At year's end, workers in an independent trade union at the MedAvtoTrans (MAT) ambulance depot in Nizhniy Tagil were preparing to resume collective bargaining with depot management following a November decision by the arbitration court that ordered management to resume negotiations with the union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "depot": ammunition depot ♦ bus depot ♦ cold storage depot ♦ depot charges ♦ depot ship ♦ depot troops ♦ Ellenburg Depot ♦ freight depot ♦ fuel depot ♦ goods depot ♦ logging depot ♦ Mapleton Depot ♦ master depot ♦ ordnance depot ♦ railway depot ♦ Scott Depot ♦ Suffield Depot ♦ supply depot ♦ Susquehanna Depot ♦ train depot ♦ training depot ♦ Washington Depot. Additional references.

Beginning with "depot": depot-based, depot-medroxyprogesterone, depot-workers.

Ending with "depot": super-depot.

Afrikaans

depot. (various references)

Albanian

depo (buttery, closet, deposit, depository, magazine, repertory, repository, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strongroom, war house, warehouse, yard), stacion treni, plevicë (hayloft, mow, serai, stockyard), pikë grumbullimi, magazinë (magazine, stockroom, storehouse, war house, warehouse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محطة قطار (station, stop), ‏محطة (station, stop, stopping place, terminal), ‏مستودع (depository, magazine, repository, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), ‏مخزن (depository, magazine, stockroom, store, storehouse, storeroom, stowage, warehouse). (various references)

Breton

porzh-mañ (this depot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

учебен батальон, склад (depositary, depository, lazaretto, outlet, paddock, repository, stock-pot, stockroom, storage, store, store-house, stowage), щаб на полк, трамвайно депо, военно пленнически лагер, запасна част, жп. гара, автобусен гараж, депо (shed). (various references)

Chinese 

集中处, 倉庫 (storehouse, warehouse), 廠子 (yard), 廠 (cliff, factory, slope, workhouse, works, yard). (various references)

Czech

depo, skladištì (repository, storage, storehouse, warehouse), sklad (repository, stock, store, storeroom, warehouse), nádraží (railway station, station). (various references)

Danish

depot (deposit, depositary, depository, drop crater, droplet impaction, dump, heap, point deposit, repository, spray coating, spray deposit, storage library, tip, train depot, yard), ophobning (accumulation, retention, storage, uptake), magasin (air chamber, card hopper, feed hopper, hopper, magazine, man-made lake, reservoir, shed, stack, staging area, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), lager (box-room, depository, storage room, warehouse). (various references)

Dutch

depot (affiliate, affiliation, branch, depository), pakhuis (warehouse), magazijn (warehouse), bewaarplaats (box-room, depository, storage room). (various references)

Farsi 

مخزن مهمات , انبارگاه , انبار (Arsenal, Cellar, Depository, Entrepot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Repository, Sluice, Store, Tender, Thesaurus), بازخانه . (various references)

Finnish

varikko, varasto (fund, stock, store, storehouse, supply), asema (location, position, site, situation, stage, state, station, status, stop). (various references)

Flemish

station. (various references)

French

dépôt (deposit). (various references)

German

lagerhaus (depository, store, storehouse, warehouse, warestore), Lager für Ersatzteile, depot (deposit, depository, dump, magazine, securities deposit account, strong room, warehouse). (various references)

Greek 

συσσώρευσις, σταθμόσ (post, station), χώρος αποθήκευσης (stockroom, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), αποθήκη εφοδίων (food store, store), αποθήκη (bin, cellar, depository, hutch, promptuary, repository, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, vault, warehouse). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחסן (magazine, shed, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), תחנת רכבת (railway station), תחנה (post, stage, station, stop, yard). (various references)

Hungarian

raktár (berth, depository, dump, go down, godown, hold, magazine, repository, stock, stock room, stockpile, storage, store, store room, storehouse, warehouse, yard), vasútállomás (railway station), ezredtörzs, depó (repository, store). (various references)

Indonesian

gudang (barn, godown, storehouse, warehouse), gardu (bus shelter, dump, guardhouse, magazine, relay station, sentry post). (various references)

Italian

magazzino (magazine, repository, store, storehouse, warehouse), deposito (account, attic, bestowal, check in, deposit, depository, leaving, loft, memory, pawn, pledge, repository, storage, store, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

停車場　 (railway station, taxi stand), 停車場 (railway station, taxi stand), バス発着場 (bazooka, buzz), デボン紀 (deposit, Devonian period). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バスはっちゃくじょう, デポー , ていしゃば (railway station, taxi stand), ていしゃじょう (railway station, taxi stand). (various references)

Korean 

저장소 (receptacle). (various references)

Manx

stoyr (deposit, fund, hoard, repertory, repository, still room, stock, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply), ard-hie. (various references)

Pig Latin

epotday.(various references)

Portuguese

depósito (bailment, deposit, deposition, depository, dreg, font, garner, lodging, outhouse, reservoir, sediment, storehouse, tank). (various references)

Romanian

depozit (bank, deposit, dump, repository, stack, stock, storage, store, store room, storehouse, stores, warehouse), depou de tramvaie (car barn), depou, magazie (bank, box, magazine, repository, shed, storage, store room, storehouse, warehouse), garã (side-track, station, terminal), cartier general al unui regiment, antrepozit (go down, repository, storehouse, warehouse, wharf). (various references)

Russian 

депо (railroad yard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

depo (terminal), stovarište (staple, storehouse, timber yard, warehouse), skladište (magazine, repository, stack, stock, stockroom, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse). (various references)

Somali

rugtan (this depot). (various references)

Spanish

depósito (barrel, bond, cistern, deposit, depository, escrow, morgue, Pinfold, repository, reservoir, retainer, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, warehouse), almacén (grocers, grocer's shop, grocery, magazine, repository, shed, shop, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references)

Swedish

depå (dump, pit). (various references)

Turkish

depo (depository, entrepot, goods yard, packing house, receptacle, repertory, repository, reservoir, stock room, storage, store, storeroom, tank, warehouse, yard), tren istasyonu (railway station), ikmal deposu (supply depot), gar (railhead, station, station house, terminal, terminus), esir toplama yeri, emanetçi (bailee, consignee, depositary, depository, trustee), birikim (accumulation, back demand, backlog, nest egg, saving), alay komutanlığı. (various references)

Ukrainian

сховище (accommodation, citadel, cover, covert, coverture, depository, garner, haven, hide out, hold, housing, repertory, vault, warehouse), склад (cast, cellar, composition, compound, depository, make up, repertory, storage, store, syllable, yard), комора (barn, cellar, garner, granary, larder, pantry, storehouse, storeroom, stowage), військовий табір, залізнича станція, базовий склад. (various references)

Vietnamese 

kho chứa. (various references)

depositum. (various references)

depost. (various references)

magasin. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "depot": depots. (additional references)

Words ending with "depot": subdepot. (additional references)

Words containing "depot": subdepots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Depot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adepo, dapo, decot, deeioo, Deloitt, deop, deot, depat, depi, depia, depil, depit, depmt, depo, depox, Deppa, Derota, desot, detop, devot, Dexpo, Diaphot, dijot, dipo, dpo, dpt, dupt, Edippo, edot, Epcott, epot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: opted, toped.

-1 letter: dope, dote, oped, poet, toed, tope.

-2 letters: doe, dot, ode, ope, opt, ped, pet, pod, pot, ted, tod, toe, top.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, et, od, oe, op, pe, to.

+1 letter: deport, depots, despot, podite, ported, posted, potted, pouted, redtop, stoped, topped.

+2 letters: adopted, adoptee, adopter, bedpost, coapted, compted, coopted, deports, deposit, desktop, despots, diopter, dioptre, dopiest, droplet, epidote, notepad, opiated, outsped, pentode, peridot, photoed, picoted, piloted, pivoted, plotted, plotzed, podesta, podites, pointed, portend, posited, pothead, proteid, protend, readopt, redtops, sopited, sported, spotted, spouted, stomped, stooped, stopped, tadpole, tiptoed, toppled, topside, torpedo, tromped, trooped, trouped.