Word Finder - station

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A stopping place.

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A place where workers are stationed.

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Any of the Stations of the Cross.

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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.

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

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Standing; rank; position.

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She had ambitions beyond her station.

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A broadcasting entity.

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I used to listen to that radio station.

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A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

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Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.

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

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

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

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The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.

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The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

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The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

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(usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.

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I was stationed on the pier.

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To put in place to perform military duty.

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I was stationed at Fort Richie.

I left the station, not sure what to do next.

She moved from station to station.

The stage came to a halt in front of the station, and people drifted by, satisfying their curiosity about its occupants.

I've waited at that station for five hours.

As he was leaving the station for the day on Thursday, she telephoned.

The exhausted couple stopped at a service station to fill the tires to their proper level.

The last thing you want to do is walk into a police station with a cou­ple of suitcases of what's most likely stolen money.

She gave me a couple of hundred bucks and left me at this bus station in this little town in Illinois—I don't remember the name.

She guided the car to the lit parking lot near the metro station, her destination.

She'd had an impending sense of doom since meeting Gabriel on the street outside the faux police station, but this feeling was…defined.

I called the station in Maryland but it was a cash sale so they don't have a record.

Why don't you come down to the station and file a report.

Recalling the moment at the ambulance station when he had seen Kuragin, he could not now regain the feeling he then had, but was tormented by the question whether Kuragin was alive.

The injured may proceed immediately to the emergency station, the fed said.

When the train at last pulled into the station at Boston it was as if a beautiful fairy tale had come true.

Meeting a comrade at the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more impatient the nearer they got to Moscow.

I should be leaving for the police station in a few minutes.

She'd been too flustered to pay attention to the trip to the police station and looked around, not recognizing the area.

It was three miles before he came to a closed gas station, but there was a phone booth outside.

The engine-bell tells the passengers that they are coming to a station, and it tells the people to keep out of the way.

Some station themselves on this side of the pond, some on that, for the poor bird cannot be omnipresent; if he dive here he must come up there.

The dressing station consisted of three tents with flaps turned back, pitched at the edge of a birch wood.

Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.

After explaining the situation and giving her address, she turned down the road toward the nearest public area – a service station 2 miles away.

Corwen is a favourite station for artists and anglers.

In spite of the massive benefits civilization offers to every person in every station of life, a crazy few will always see it very differently.

He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

This wasn't a police station.

She returned to the communications station.

The ol' boys at the station are about split down the middle but we're not privy to Byrne's lifestyle and I suppose that's the key.

No one at the station is dumb enough to give out any infor­mation on personnel.

The next three days slid by, closer to the normal routine at both home and at the station than Dean had experienced since Jeffrey Byrne's midnight swim.

At the gas station there were only two cars.

St Paul's Station on the Holborn branch is also terminal in part.

The North London railway has a terminal station at Broad Street, City, and serves the parts of London implied by its name.

This depends largely on the station adopted by the parasite.

In Upper Pannonia were Vindobona (Vienna), probably founded by Vespasian; Carnuntum (Petronell); Arrabona (Raab), a considerable military station; Brigetio; Savaria or Sabaria (Stein-am-Anger), founded by Claudius, a frequent residence of the later emperors, and capital of Pannonia prima; Poetovio (Pettau); Siscia, a place of great importance down to the end of the empire; Emona (Laibach), later assigned to Italy; Nauportus (Ober-Laibach).

The following analyses of upper leaves made at the Connecticut state station, and recorded in Report No.

Towards the end of 545 the Gothic king took up his station at Tivoli and prepared to starve Rome into surrender, making at the same time elaborate preparations for checking the progress of Belisarius who was advancing to its relief.

The township is served, at Alfred station, by the Erie railway.

The village, which is connected by stage with the station, is situated at the junction of two valleys and commands delightful views of mountain scenery.

The road is a mere camel track across the desert, the chief places passed are Ma`an on the Syrian border, a station on the old Sabaean trade route to Petra, and Medain Salih, the site of the rock-cut tombs and inscriptions first brought to notice by Doughty.

Fort St James is now used as a signal station, lighthouse and prison.

We find the Gothland association making in 1229 a treaty with a Russian prince and securing privileges for their branch trading station at Novgorod.

Munich lies at the centre of an important network of railways connecting it directly with Strassburg (for Paris), Cologne, Leipzig, Berlin, Rosenheim (for Vienna) and Innsbruck (for Italy via the Brenner pass), which converge in a central station.

Mrs. Freeman and Carrie and Ethel and Frank and Helen came to station to meet us in a huge carriage.

At the Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster would not supply them.

He had begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same question--one so important that he took no notice of what went on around him.

At the last post station before Otradnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.

The militiamen carried Prince Andrew to the dressing station by the wood, where wagons were stationed.