Station

Definition: Station

Station

Noun

1. A facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station".

2. Proper or designated social situation: "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station".

3. (Navy) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

4. The position where something or someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand: "a sentry station".

Verb

1. Assign to a station.

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

Date "station" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Station \Sta"tion\, noun. [French, from Latin statio, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]. (references)

Aerospace

Avian

Biology & Biotechnology

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Geological

Mining

Post & Telecom

Public Administration

Tips from 1870

Transportation

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Station

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Journey

Depot, railway station, station.

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Mart

Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer.

Place

Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation).

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Punctuality

Phrase: touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station.

Repute

Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition.

Situation

Place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings; (direction); spot; (limited space).

Term

Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.

Vehicle

Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car.

Crosswords: Station

Danish (stage, station, stop), Dutch (stage, station, stop), Flemish (depot), French (stage, stand, station, stop), German (phase, stage, station, stop, ward), Swedish (stage, stand, station, stop).

You know, between his howling and you blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area (The Fugitive; writing credit: Jeb Stuart, David Twohy)

This once, you can sit at someone else's station. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

And it's pointing to this station! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

So tell the station you need a week back to you (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

We'd listen to the radio station (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear)

Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

But i miss the station (East Of Anywhere; performing artist: Mya)

And she ran to the police station (Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard; performing artist: Paul Simon)

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? (references; author: unknown)

Centraal station (1974)

To the Station (1972)

Ice Station Zebra (1968)

Station Master (1966)

Comanche Station (1960)

Some Like It Hot (performing artist: Power Station)

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

References

• 55 Station Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Startup Station Plc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Station Casinos Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Shenzhen Nanshan Power Station Co., Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Satellite Earth Station Equipment in Hong Kong: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

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Books

• Bus Station Mystery (Boxcar Children, No 18) (reference)

• Gas Station Memories (reference)

• Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir (reference)

• Survival Nurse : Running An Emergency Nursing Station Under Adverse Conditions (reference)

• Genetics and Breeding of Agaricus: Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Mushroom Science, Mushroom Experimental Station, Horst, the Net (reference)

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Periodicals

• Recent Publications Of The Pacific Northwest Research Station (reference)

• Station Service Actualites (reference)

• Tv Station Directory (reference)

• Warren Publishings Cable And Station Coverage Atlas - Cd Rom (reference)

• Work Station Buyers Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Comanche Station (reference)

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Music

• Airs Above Your Station (reference)

• Angora Station (reference)

• To a Finland Station (reference)

• Station Identification (reference)

• Innermost Station (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FireNet Station (reference)

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

Consumer Goods

• Especially For Baby Changing Station (reference)

• TracRac 24300 TracMaster Miter Saw Work Station (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.

Shows photo of Selman Waksman and associates testing Streptomycin, a bacterial antibiotic produced by the soil actinomycete - chiefly used in the treatment of tuberculosis. New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station at Rutgers University. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Various views of the platform level of The Metro at Medical Center Station. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Buildings at Rosebank Quarantine Station in Staten Island, New York. Credit: CDC.

Garages at Rosebank Quarantine Station located in Saten Island, New York. Credit: CDC.

Space Station Freedom Centrifuge Facility Mockup. Credit: NASA.

International Space Station. Credit: NASA.

Space Station Mock-up in Neutral Buoyancy Simulator. Credit: NASA.

Lucid on Treadmill in Russian Mir Space Station. Credit: NASA.

A study in geometry - looking up a Bilby tower Station South Bend, Louisiana Traingulation Party of Eugene R. McCarthy. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tower at Station Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station wilfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another. (Second Treatise of Government)

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (reference)

With Poland: From the point defined above to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf: the fronticr as it will be fixed in accordance with Article 88 of the present Treaty; thence in a northerly direction to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania crosses the river Bartsch: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following placcs in Poland: Skorischau, Reichthal, Trembatschau, Kunzendorf, Schleise, Gross Koscl, Schreibersdorf, Rippin, Furstlich-Niefken, Pawelau, Tscheschen, Konradau, Johallnisdorf, Modzenowe, Bogdaj, and in Gerrmany: Lorzendorf, Kaulwitz, Glausche, Dalbersdorf, Reesewitz, Stradam, Gross Wartenberg, Kraschen, Neu Mittelwalde, Domaslawitz, Wedelsdorf, Tscheschen Hammer; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania northwestwards to the point where it cuts the Rawitsch-Herrnstadt railway; thence to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania cuts the Reisen-Tschirnau road: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Triebusch and Gabel and east of Saborwitz; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania to its junction with the eastern administrative boundary of the Kreis of Fraustadt; thence in a north-westerly direction to a point to be chosen on the road between the villages of Unruhstadt and Kopnitz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Geyersdorf, Brenno, Fehlen, Altkloster, Klebel, and east of Ulbersdorf, Buchwald, Ilgen,Weine, Lupitze, Schwenten: thence in a northerly direction to the northernmost point of Lake Chlop: a line to be fixed on the ground following the median line of the lakes; the town and the station of Bentschen however (including the junction of the lines Schwiebus-Bentschen and Zullichau-Bentschen) remaining in Polish territory; thence in a north-easterly direction to the point of junction of the boundaries of the Kreise of Schwerin, Birnbaum, and Meseritz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Betsche; thence in a northerly direction the boundary separating the Kreise of Schwerin and Birnbaum, then in an easterly direction the northern boundary of Posnania to the point where it cuts the river Netze; thence upstream to its confluence with the Kaddow: the course of the Netze; thence upstream to a point to be chosen about 6 kilometres southeast of Schneidemuhl: the course of the Kuddow; thence north-eastwards to the most southern point of the reentant of the northern boundary of Posnania about 5 kilometres west of Stahren: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the SchneidemuhlKonitz railway in this area entirely in German territory; thence the boundary of Posnania north-eastwards to the point of the salient it makes about 15 kilometres east of Flatow; thence north-eastwards to the point where the river Kamionka meets the southern boundary of the Kreis of Konitz about 3 kilometres north-east of Grunau: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places to Poland: Jasdrowo, Gr. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I told him, as we went, what had happened at the Station, but as to my further adventures I thought it best, for the present, to say nothing

To go from the old station to the new, we must pass through Paris

We were down there at a meeting and after the meeting was over we had to make our way to the railway station through the crowd

(r)Service station, like the fella says

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Later, when a telephone is accessible, the patient can transmit the recorded information from the memory to the monitoring station. (references)

Stereotaxic thalamotomy involves precise cutting of parts of the thalamus, which serves as the brain's relay station for messages from the muscles and sensory organs. (references)

When the patient feels an arrhythmia, he or she telephones a monitoring station where the record is made. If access to a telephone is not possible, the patient has the option of activating the monitor's memory function. (references)

Business

Most of the radio station broadcast 24 hours a day. (references)

BTC uses the hub earth station of Transtel in South Africa. (references)

These are connected to a hub earth station outside Mozambique. (references)

Children

Kenya

In 2000 teachers at the Top Station Primary School in Kitale allegedly raped several students during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Somalia

The TNG recently began operating an FM station. (references)

Cameroon

At year's end, no station had received a license. (references)

Economic History

Rwanda

There is a fledgling television station. (references)

Norway

TV 2 is a national station with excellent coverage. (references)

The Bahamas

Both Nassau and Freeport have a television station. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

They destroyed the police station, the city hall, the bank, and 10 houses. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Sylla Mory was detained for several hours at the police station of Marcory. (references)

Guyana

On June 8, Rocky Anthony Brunoanish died in the Aurora Police Station lockup. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

In April a gang of skinheads beat a teenage Romani boy at Zagreb's main railway station. (references)

Russia

The youth was arrested following a general crackdown on extremism in the wake of the October 30 attacks on Caucasian merchants near Moscow's Tsaritsyno metro station. (references)

Bulgaria

In the Pleven region, a local television station repeatedly broadcast an inflammatory statement purportedly representing the views of the local Bulgarian Orthodox bishop. (references)

Political Economy

Cameroon

After waiting for 6 months for a government response, one station assumed tacit approval and began to broadcast. (references)

Madagascar

At times the Government pressured the media to curb its coverage of certain events and topics and prevented the broadcast of a religious service on the government-controlled radio station. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

Opposition parties complained that they received limited coverage or opportunity to express their views on the government-controlled electronic media; however, in April an independent radio station began to broadcast. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

Polling station observers were not allowed to observe the counting process. (references)

Albania

Coverage by the state television station, RTVSh, deteriorated after the first round, favoring the governing party. (references)

Belarus

However, most of the irregularities were not immediately apparent, creating the false image of an orderly polling station. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Inaugurated on July 9, 1998, this free zone is located 7 km. from the city of San Miguel de Tucuman, 3 km. from the railway station, and 15 km from the International Airport. (references)

Zambia

Certification must be obtained for the following imports: meat/poultry (Veterinary Department); plants (Mount Makulu Research Station); food & drugs (Ministry of Health); firearms and ammunition (Zambia Police). (references)

China

The World Bank publishes bidding opportunities in the United Nations publication "Development Business." This is available by subscription from United Nations, P.O. Box 5850, Grand Central Station New York, New York 10163-5850. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Troas Street, Osu, near Shell Station. (references)

Ghana

At the airport, next to the Shell Gas Station. (references)

Lithuania

Unleaded gas is available in every gasoline station in the country. (references)

Women

Malaysia

Many Government hospitals have set up crisis centers where victims of rape and domestic abuse can make reports without going to a police station. (references)

Nicaragua

Each commissariat is located adjacent to a police station and is staffed by six police officers, two social workers, one psychologist, and one lawyer. (references)

Worker Rights