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sta⋅tion

[stey-shuh

–noun

1.	a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.

2.	a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.

3.	the building or buildings at such a stopping place.

4.	the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station.

5.	a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station.

6.	the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station.

7.	a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.

Radio and Television.

a.	a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.

b.	a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.

c.	a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster: Tune to the Civil Defense station.

d.	the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.

Military.

a.	a military place of duty.

b.	a semipermanent army post.

10.	Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

11.	(formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.

12.	Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.

13.	Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., esp. for raising sheep.

14.

Surveying.

a.	Also called instrument station, set-up. a point where an observation is taken.

b.	a precisely located reference point.

c.	a length of 100 ft. (30 m) along a survey line.

15.	a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station.

16.	stations of the cross.

17.	Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still.

–verb (used with object)

18.	to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.

Origin:
1350–1400; < L statiōn- (s. of statiō) a standing still, standing-place, equiv. to stat(us) (ptp. of stāre to stand ) + -iōn- -ion; r. ME stacioun < AF < L, as above

Related forms:

sta⋅tion⋅al, adjective

Synonyms:
1. situation, location. 3. depot, terminal. 7. metier, occupation, trade, business, employment. 15. See appointment. 18. position, locate, establish, set, fix.

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sta·tion (stā'shən)

1. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post: a sentry station.
2. An area where a person is assigned to work.
3. An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.
4. One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions: the views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.
5. A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.
6. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.
7. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.
The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed: a police station.
A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.
Social position; rank: "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).
An establishment equipped for observation and study: a radar station.
1. An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.
2. One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions: the views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.
3. A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.
4. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.
5. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.
An input or output point along a communications system.
A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.
Ecology
1. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.
2. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.
Station Roman Catholic Church Any of the 14 Stations of the Cross.

tr.v. sta·tioned, sta·tion·ing, sta·tions
To assign to a position; post.

[Middle English stacioun, from Old French station, from Latin statiō, statiōn-; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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Station

Sta"tion\, n. In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.

Station

Sta"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. statio, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]

1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. [R.]

A station like the herald, Mercury. --Shak.

Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. --Hooker.

2. A state of standing or rest; equilibrium. [Obs.]

All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet. --Sir T. Browne.

3. The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel. Specifically: (a) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc. (b) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct. (c) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying. (d) (Biol.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (e) (Naut.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely. (f) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty. (g) (Mil.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. --Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.). (h) (Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.

4. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

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. --R. Nelson.

5. Situation; position; location.

The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain? --Prior.

6. State; rank; condition of life; social status.

The greater part have kept, I see, Their station. --Milton.

They in France of the best rank and station. --Shak.

7. (Eccl.) (a) The 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. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. --Addis & Arnold. (c) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. --Fairholt.

Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter.

Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters of the police assigned to a certain district, and as a place of temporary confinement. (b) The house used as a shelter at a railway station.

Station master, one who has charge of a station, esp. of a railway station.

Station pointer (Surv.), an instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed.

Station staff (Surv.), an instrument for taking angles in surveying. --Craig.

Syn: Station, Depot.

Usage: In the United States, a stopping place on a railway for passengers and freight is commonly called a depot: but to a considerable extent in official use, and in common speech, the more appropriate name, station, has been adopted.

Station

Sta"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stationed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stationing.] To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.

He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed. --Lyttelton.

Language Translation for : station

Italian: stazione,

German: die Haltestelle, der Bahnhof,

Japanese: 駅

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station

c.1280, "place which one normally occupies," from O.Fr. station, from L. stationem (nom. statio) "a standing, post, job, position," related to stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). The meaning "place for a special purpose" (e.g. polling station) is first recorded 1823; radio station is from 1912. The meaning "regular stopping place" is first recorded 1797, in reference to coach routes; applied to railroads 1830. Meaning "each of a number of holy places visited in succession by pilgrims" is from c.1380, hence Station of the Cross (1553). The verb meaning "to assign a post or position to" is attested from 1748. Station wagon in the automobile sense is first recorded 1929, from earlier use for a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers to and from railroad stations (1894). Station house "police station" is attested from 1836.

Main Entry: sta·tion
Pronunciation: 'stA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the place at which someone is positioned or is assigned to remain station on a hospital ward>
2 : the act or manner of standing : POSTURE<station was unsteady with the eyes open or closed —Diseases of the Nervous System>
3 : a place established to provide a service —see AID STATION

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