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Station   /stˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Station  n.  
1.
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. (R.) "A station like the herald, Mercury." "Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose... had the names of stations given them."
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."
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 or defensive measures..
(h)
(Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation 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."
5.
Situation; position; location. "The fig and date why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain?"
6.
State; rank; condition of life; social status. "The greater part have kept, I see, Their station." "They in France of the best rank and station."
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.
(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.
8.
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 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.
Synonyms: Station, Depot. 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.


verb
Station  v. t.  (past & past part. stationed; pres. part. 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 coast of Africa. "He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed."





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"Station" Quotes from Famous Books



... travelled a good deal, and hath an air of high breeding. The minister here thinks him a Papist, and a Jesuit, especially as he hath not called upon him, nor been to the meeting. He goes soon to Pemaquid, to take charge of that fort and trading station, which have greatly ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... coming forth to the ministry was somewhat remarkable, for in the time when the civil wars broke forth, several gentlemen being in arms for the cause of religion, among whom he was chosen and called to be a captain, in which station he behaved himself like another Cornelius, being a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, and prayed to God always with his company, &c. When the Scots army were about to engage with the English, he judged meet to call his company to prayer ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... problems, those of immediate importance, without referring them back to America. The 3000 miles of ocean represented a necessary loss of contact which prevented the home workers, however willing, from fully realising the needs of the problems concerned. Accordingly a strong experimental station, Hanlon Field, was developed near Chaumont, and a well-equipped laboratory was established at ...
— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden
... the Hill, where, by a very heedful Observation, he suppos'd himself to have seen the Light: but whether 'twere that he had mistaken the place, or for some other Reason, he could not find it there, though when he was return'd to his former Station, he did agen see the Light shining in the same place where it shone before. A further Account of this Light I expect from the Gentleman that gave me this, who lately sent me the news of his being landed in that Country. And though I reserve to my self a full Liberty of Believing ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... long wait, one day father and I rose at daybreak and rode thirty-six miles in a springless wagon, over ranchmen's roads ("the giant's vertebrae," Jim Hill's men called it) to the nearest express station, returning with a trunk and two packing cases. It was a solemn moment when the first box was opened. Then mother gave a cry of delight. Sheets and bedspreads edged with lace! Real linen pillowcases with crocheted edgings. Soft woolen blankets and bright handmade ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown


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