| station | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis. | |
| 2. n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion. | |
| 3. n. A stopping place. | |
| 4. n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation. | |
| The next station is Esperanza. | |
| 5. n. A ground transportation depot. | |
| It's right across from the bus station. | |
| 6. n. 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. | |
| 7. n. (US) A gas station, service station. | |
| 8. n. A place where workers are stationed. | |
| 9. n. An official building from which police or firefighters operate. | |
| The police station is opposite the fire station. | |
| 10. n. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task. | |
| The waitress was at her station preparing three checks. | |
| The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. | |
| 11. n. A military base. | |
| She had a boyfriend at the station. | |
| 12. n. A place used for broadcasting radio or television. | |
| I used to work at a radio station. | |
| 13. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm. | |
| 14. n. One of the Stations of the Cross. | |
| 15. n. The Roman Catholic 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. | |
| 16. n. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. | |
| 17. n. Standing; rank; position. | |
| She had ambitions beyond her station. | |
| 18. n. A broadcasting entity. | |
| I used to listen to that radio station. | |
| 19. n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing. | |
| 20. n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path. | |
| 21. n. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. | |
| 22. n. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc. | |
| 23. n. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. | |
| 24. n. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres. | |
| 25. v. To put in place to perform a task. | |
| The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors. | |
| 26. v. To put in place to perform military duty. | |
| They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out. | |
