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What (who) is Station - definition
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Broadcast station; Stations; Transit station; Station (disambiguation); Broadcast station (disambiguation); Transit station (disambiguation); Station (film)
station
I
n.
building or place used for a specific purpose
1) a broadcasting; bus; coaling; coastguard; comfort (AE); experimental; fire; freight (AB); hydroelectric, power; naval; police; polling; radar; radar-tracking; railroad (AB), railway (esp. BE); recruiting; space; television, TV; tracking; weather station
place where motor vehicles are serviced
2) a filling, gas (AE), gasoline (AE), petrol (BE), service station
place of duty
3) an action; battle station
position
4) one's station in life
II
v. (P; tr.) they were stationed in Germany
station
I. n.
1.
Place, position, post, location, situation.
2.
Office, function, business, employment, sphere of duty, occupation.
3.
Rank, standing, character, state, degree, condition, status.
4.
Station-house, railway station, depot.
II. v. a.
Place, locate, post, fix, establish, set.
station
(stations, stationing, stationed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A station is a building by a railway line where trains stop so that people can get on or off.
Ingrid went with him to the railway station to see him off...
N-COUNT: oft n N
2.
A bus station is a building, usually in a town or city, where buses stop, usually for a while, so that people can get on or off.
N-COUNT: n N
3.
If you talk about a particular radio or television station, you are referring to the programmes broadcast by a particular radio or television company.
...an independent local radio station...
It claims to be the most popular television station in the UK.
N-COUNT: oft n N
4.
If soldiers or officials are stationed in a place, they are sent there to do a job or to work for a period of time.
Reports from the capital, Lome, say troops are stationed on the streets...
V-PASSIVE: be V-ed prep/adv
5.
If you station yourself somewhere, you go there and wait, usually for a particular purpose. (FORMAL)
The musicians stationed themselves quickly on either side of the stairs...
= position
VERB: V pron-refl prep/adv
6.
Examples of use of Station
1. The commuter services are from Al–Seef station to Bani Yas station, Al–Sabkha station to Bur Dubai station, Old Dubai Souk station to Al–Seef station and Old Souk station to Bani Yas station.
2. Centrale Station, Florence New underground station for high–speed trains alongside existing 1'30s station.
3. The bombs went off at Dhaka‘s Kamalapur station, northeastern Sylhet station and southesast Chittagong station.
4. Discovery replenished the station and repaired station equipment.
5. Both the mainline station and the underground station were evacuated.