Station

Noun

 * 1)  The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
 * 2) * 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
 * the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time [...].
 * 1) A stopping place
 * 2) A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
 * The next station is Esperanza.
 * 1) A ground transportation depot.
 * It's right across from the bus station.
 * 1) One of the Stations of the Cross.
 * 2) A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
 * From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
 * All ships are on station, Admiral.
 * 1) * 1886, ,
 * "...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."
 * 1) A place where one performs a tasks or where one is on call to perform a task.
 * The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
 * 1) Standing; rank; position.
 * She had ambitions beyond her station.
 * 1) A military base.
 * She had a boyfriend at the station.
 * 1) A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
 * I used to work at a radio station.
 * 1) A broadcasting entity.
 * I used to listen to that radio station.
 * 1)  A very large sheep or cattle farm
 * There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, that the colt from old Regret had got away (A. B. Patterson, poet)
 * 1)  A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
 * 2)  Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.

Synonyms

 * channel
 * base, military base
 * farm, ranch

Derived terms

 * base station
 * battle station
 * broadcast station, broadcast-station
 * bus station
 * cattle station
 * coach station
 * docking station
 * filling station
 * fire station
 * fuel station
 * fueling station, fuelling station
 * gas station
 * guard station
 * hill station
 * hydrogen station
 * listening station
 * metro station
 * mobile station, mobile-station
 * motor station
 * outstation
 * petrol filling station
 * petrol station
 * PlayStation, Playstation
 * police station
 * polling station
 * power station
 * pull station
 * radar station
 * radio station, radio-station
 * railroad station


 * railway station
 * relay station
 * service station
 * sheep station
 * space station, spacestation, space-station
 * substation
 * subway station
 * state
 * stationary
 * station bill
 * station break
 * station hand
 * stationmaster
 * station sedan
 * Stations of the Cross
 * station throat
 * station wagon, station-wagon
 * stationward
 * substation
 * subway station
 * television station, television-station, TV station
 * total station
 * train station
 * Tube station
 * underground station
 * urination station
 * voting station
 * way station, waystation
 * weigh station
 * work station, workstation

Verb

 * 1) To put in place to perform a task.
 * The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
 * 1) To put in place to perform military duty.
 * They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

Adjectives for Station
colorless; written; definite; ineradicable; judicious; conflicting; defamatory; comparative; quaint; admirable; humorous; adroit; confident; intelligible; inaccurate; conservative; groundless; naked; specious; plausible; previous; remarkable; uncompromising; hazardous; ridiculous; penetrating; accompanying; publicized; distorted; oracular; attributive; precise; ingenuous; comprehensive; sensible; trifle-sounding; absurd; startling; hyperbolical; vague; foregoing; elucidated; derogatory; fervid; immortal; amazing; reiterated; graphic; detailed; articulate; erroneous; periphrastic; sweeping; dogmatic; positive; direct; superfluous; candid; authoritative; substantial.

Verbs for Station
allude to—; alter—; amplify—; base—on; bolster—; buttress—; certify to—; cite—; compile—; contradict—; controvert—; con¬vey—; correlate—; dig up—; discredit—; draft—; edit—; elaborate—; elicit—; evade —; exaggerate—; extract—; fling out—; follow up—; heed—; impugn—; infer from —; issue—; label—; misquote—; modify— qualify—; quote—; reiterate—; rest upon— subsidize—; transmit—; unravel—; utter— verify—; weigh—;  —challenges;  —depresses; —discloses; —implies; —jars; — justifies.

Adjectives for Station
enviable; desolate; supernatural; allotted; recruiting; way; unmoving; equivocal; biological; unshrinking; elevated; responsible; dust-driven;  distributing;   intermediate; fragile; conspicuous; meteorological; dingy; smoky; native; low; service; future; passenger;  retreading;  control;  prostrate; dinky. verbs accumulate at—; confine to—; deposit at—; maintain—; remain at—; trundle to—; wait at—; —distributes; —quarters.

Adverbs for Station
Ingeniously; elevatedly; termittently; frequently.

Thesaurus
angle, appoint, appointment, arable land, assign, barnyard, barton, base, bearings, berth, billet, blood, bracket, branch, case, caste, category, cattle ranch, chicken farm, circumstance, clan, class, collective farm, condition, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, depot, dignity, distance, division, dry farm, dude ranch, echelon, employment, engagement, estate, face, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fix, footing, fruit farm, fur farm, garrison, gig, grade, grain farm, grange, grassland, ground, group, grouping, hacienda, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, incumbency, install, jam, job, kibbutz, kin, kolkhoz, kudos, label, lay, level, locate, location, lot, mains, manor farm, modality, mode, moonlighting, office, opening, orchard, order, park, pass, pasture, pen, perspective, pickle, pigeonhole, place, plantation, plight, pose, posit, position, post, posture, poultry farm, power structure, precedence, predicament, prestige, put, race, ranch, rancheria, rancho, rank, rate, rating, rubric, seat, second job, section, sept, service, set, sheep farm, site, situation, sphere, spot, stage, stand, standing, state, stature, status, steading, stick, stock farm, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, submit, suborder, tenure, title, toft, truck farm, vacancy, venue, viewpoint

Etymology
From estacioun:, from  estation:,  from  stationem:, accusative of statio:.

Noun

 * Arabic: محطة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: geltoki
 * Belarusian: станцыя, вакзал
 * Bulgarian: станция, гара
 * Catalan: estació
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: 站
 * Croatian: kolodvor
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, peatus
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სადგური
 * German:, Station
 * Greek: στάθμευση
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: स्टेशन
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, fermata
 * Japanese: 駅
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, fermata
 * Japanese: 駅


 * Khmer: ស្ថានីយ
 * Korean: 정거장, 역
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: stacija
 * Lithuanian: stotis
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian: ѳртѳѳ
 * Persian: ایستگاه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: staţie
 * Russian:, вокзал
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: станица, колодвор
 * Roman: stanica, kolodvor
 * Slovak: stanica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สถานี
 * Turkish: durak,
 * Ukrainian: станція, вокзал
 * Urdu: سٹیشن, اسٹیشن
 * Vietnamese: nhà ga
 * Welsh:
 * Vietnamese: nhà ga
 * Welsh:


 * Japanese: 部署 (ぶしょ, busho)
 * Persian: توقف گاه


 * Swahili:


 * Japanese: 駐屯地 (ちゅうとんち, chūtonchi)


 * Catalan: estació
 * Italian: stazione
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 방송국


 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: stotis
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Danish: tv-station
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, emittente


 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * Catalan: apostar


 * Italian: stazionare

Noun

 * 1) station

Etymology
From estacion, borrowed from  statio:, stationem.

Anagrams

 * tâtions

Noun

 * 1) station