station

a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.

Synonyms:

location, situation

a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.

the building or buildings at such a stopping place.

Synonyms:

terminal, depot

the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services.

police station; fire station; postal station.

a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like.

gasoline station; geophysical station.

the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing.

the responsibility of persons of high station.

a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.

Synonyms:

employment, business, trade, occupation

Radio and Television.

1. a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.

2. a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.

3. a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster.

   Tune to the Civil Defense station.

4. the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.

Military.

1. a military place of duty.

2. a semipermanent army post.

Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

(formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.

Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.

Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., especially for raising sheep.

Surveying.

1. Also called set-up.  Also called instrument station,.  a point where an observation is taken.

2. a precisely located reference point.

3. a length of 100 feet (30 meters) along a survey line.

a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post.

The waiter says this isn't his station.

stations of the cross.

Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still.

the place or position at which a thing or person stands or is supposed to stand

1. a place along a route or line at which a bus, train, etc, stops for fuel or to pick up or let off passengers or goods, esp one with ancillary buildings and services

   railway station

2. ( as modifier )

   a station buffet

1. the headquarters or local offices of an official organization such as the police or fire services

2. ( as modifier ) See police station fire station

   a station sergeant

a building, depot, etc, with special equipment for some particular purpose

power station

petrol station

television station

military a place of duty

an action station

navy

1. a location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty

2. an assigned location for a member of a ship's crew

a radio or television channel

a position or standing, as in a particular society or organization

the type of one's occupation; calling

(in British India) a place where the British district officials or garrison officers resided

biology the type of habitat occupied by a particular animal or plant

a large sheep or cattle farm

surveying a point at which a reading is made or which is used as a point of reference

(often capital) RC Church

1. one of the Stations of the Cross

2. any of the churches ( station churches ) in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions and ceremonies on particular days ( station days )

(plural) (in rural Ireland) mass, preceded by confessions, held annually in a parishioner's dwelling and attended by other parishioners