Definition of Station

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Station

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.

The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.

A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.

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.

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.

The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.

The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.

A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

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.).

An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.

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

Situation; position; location.

State; rank; condition of life; social status.

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.

A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

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.

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.

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Station Quotations

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Tim Allen

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Michelle Obama

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.
Rob Zombie

Station Translations

station in Afrikaans is stasie
station in Danish is station
station in Dutch is stationsgebouw, station
station in Finnish is rautatieasema, asema
station in French is gare, station
station in German is Bahnhof, Station
station in Latin is constituo, constituo, pono posui positum
station in Norwegian is stasjon
station in Spanish is estacion

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