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station
has definitions from the field of nautical
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[ noun ] a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
Examples "he started looking for a gas station" "the train pulled into the station" Used in print (Sports Age, 24:9...)Other THC activities followed , conducted by shopping_centers , department_stores , recreation equipment dealers , radio - TV stations , newspapers , and other organizations interested in the need existing to acquaint youngsters with the proper use of sporting firearms and the development of correct attitudes and appreciations related_to hunting and wise use of our natural_resources . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)This in_turn sets_off an alarm , notifying the observers at the station that a tsunami is in progress . This center also receives prompt reports on earthquakes from four Coast_Survey stations in the Pacific which are equipped with seismographs . Its staff makes a preliminary determination of the epicenter of the quake and alerts tide stations near the epicenter for a tsunami . Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska , Arizona and California , the quake 's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude . |
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[ verb ] assign to a station
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)A Michigan soldier stationed in Georgia wrote in 1864 : `` I expect to be tough as a knott as_soon_as I get_over the Georgia Shitts '' . A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother : `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often , for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Suppose , he says , that the tables_were_turned , and we were in the Soviets ' position : `` There would be more_than 2000 modern Soviet fighters , all better than ours , stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean . (The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)He is expected to know about what is going_on among the representatives of other agencies who are stationed in his country . |
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[ noun ] proper or designated social situation
Synonyms Examples : "he overstepped his place" "the responsibilities of a man in his station" "married above her station" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
Synonyms Examples "a soldier manned the entrance post" "a sentry station" Related terms |
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