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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



... to gain admittance. This, to be sure, caused a great laugh, but I persevered by moving an adjournment, and after a great deal of noise and squabbling, the Sheriff agreed to adjourn the meeting to the Market-place, whither we proceeded, and Mr. Sheriff Penruddock took his station upon the steps of the Market-cross, where he was surrounded by such a gang of desperadoes as never disgraced a meeting of highwaymen and pickpockets in the purlieus of St. Giles's. This gang was headed by the notorious John Benett, of Pyt-House, from ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt
... did, they never could, discover the truth—that is, the whole truth. As soon as they left the earth, their false centre, and took their stand in the sun, immediately they saw the whole system in its true light, and their former station remaining, but remaining as a part of the prospect. I wish, in short, to connect by a moral copula natural history with political history; or, in other words, to make history scientific, and science historical—to take ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge
... narrate have become part of our history; and I would narrate them more explicitly, did I not fear to wound the susceptibilities of his still existing and distinguished family. How well he knew his own station, and preserved, with the blandest manners, the true dignity of it! Though renowned in parliament for his eloquence, at the palace for his patriotic loyalty, and in the city for his immense wealth, in the blessed circle, that he truly made social, there was a pleasing simplicity ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... provisions exasperated the Abolitionists to the highest degree. The house of Isaac and Amy Post was the rendezvous for runaway slaves, and each of these families that gathered on Sunday at the Anthony farm could have told where might be found at least one station ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... visiting the sister; for neither of them knew that the brother had notice of the amour between them. The young Tarentine, however, took an occasion to tell his sister how he had heard that a man of station and authority had made his addresses to her; and desired her, therefore, to tell him who it was; "for," said he, "if he be a man that has bravery and reputation, it matters not what countryman he is, since at this time the sword mingles all nations, and makes them equal; ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough


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