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stationn.

Brit. /ˈsteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: Middle English stacioun, Middle English stacyoun, Middle English stacyown, Middle English–1500s stacyon, Middle English–1500s stacyon, Middle English–1600s stacion, Middle English– station, 1500s stacon, 1500s stasyon, 1500s statione, 1500s statyon; Scottish pre-1700 stacioun, pre-1700 stacyon, pre-1700 stashan, pre-1700 statione, pre-1700 statioun, pre-1700 1700s– station.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French statiun, station; Latin statiōn-, statiō.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman statiun and Old French, Middle French station (French station ) place, position, pause, stop, visit to a specified holy place in order to offer prayers (12th cent.; in some senses earliest as estation , estaciun ), place where one stops to make observations (1362), (in ancient Rome) guard post, guard (14th cent.; 13th cent. as estacion in sense ‘guard post’), state of stopping or standing still, (of a celestial object) apparent stationary position (14th cent.), anchorage, roadstead for ships (c1500), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin statiōn-, statiō state of standing still, (in astronomy) apparent stationary position of a planet, halting-place, staging-post on a road, position normally or properly occupied by a thing, place for ships to ride at anchor, anchorage, armed post, military garrison, guard duty, body of men manning a military post, position (in life), place for business, office, in post-classical Latin also fixed half-fast (held on Wednesdays and Fridays) (late 2nd cent.), religious meeting (of Christians) (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), merchant's booth (6th cent.), service at which the clergy of the city of Rome assembled at one of a certain number of churches within the city, each of those churches at which such a service was held (late 7th cent.), act of a mystery play (a1490 in a British source) < stat- , past participial stem of stāre to stand (see stand v.) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Catalan estació (14th cent.), Spanish estación (13th cent.), Portuguese estação (14th cent.), Italian stazione (a1342); also (showing reflexes of the Latin word, rather than borrowings) Old Occitan estazó (12th cent. in an isolated attestation), Italian †stazzo (13th cent.), †stazzone (13th cent.), all ‘dwelling, residence’, and Italian stagione season (a1250).Some of the major later sense developments, notably senses 21a and 22, are paralleled in modern French but are first attested later than in English (and, especially in the case of sense 22, may well reflect influence from English). Some important semantic developments in English have little or no parallel in Latin or French: see especially the figurative senses 10, 11, and 12 (although compare the, apparently rare, use in Middle French in the passage translated in quot. 1586 at sense 10). In French, use denoting a military base or outpost is restricted to maritime use (sense 2).
I. The place or position occupied by a person or thing.
* Literal uses.
1.
a. A place or position to which a person is assigned, esp. for duty; a person's post; (also) a player's proper position on a sports field, pitch, etc. Also in plural (esp. signifying positions taken for action or emergency) and in figurative context.In early use frequently implying a standing place.action stations, panic stations: see the first element; see also battle station n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun]
stationa1325
steadc1330
ward1487
post1642
position1781
field posta1783
field position1785
depot1798
battle station1830
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > appointed to or usually occupied by a person or thing > assigned to a person on duty or in games
stationa1325
post1649
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 15 Þo pope..his stacioun ffor trauayl doþ by-leue, Ne he comeþ nouȝt at chirche.
c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 48 Mynstrelles xiii, whereof one is verger that directeth them all in festivall dayes to theyre stations.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 284 The romanis..be wilfull eruptiouns fra þare statiouns and vigilis, effrayit þe equis.
?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. i. f. 10v The footemen whyche had stations within the cyte, came to rescue the people againste the horsemen.
1601 Ld. Mountjoy in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 157 The weather is so extreme, that many times we bring our Sentinels dead from the stations.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 136 Able Seconds at Tennis play, placed in their proper stations.
1669 J. Denham Cato Major iv. 42 Pythag'ras bids us in our Station stand, Till God our General shall us disband.
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xiv. 133 If any private Soldier quits his Station..he deserves Reproof.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 11 The..description of their different stations in the field, and of the importance of each in his station.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The cry of ‘Every man to his station, and the cook to the fore-sheet’, is calling the hands and the idlers.
1921 Workmen's Compensation Law Jrnl. 8 655 That was the station assigned to him by the foreman.
1942 Life 19 Jan. 39/3 Men are on the run to their battle stations before the sound is finished.
1980 S. Andrews Food & Beverage Service Man. i. 76 The waiter should never ignore guests or just pass them by, because they are not on his station.
2000 G. Lucas Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace 99 The Chair does not recognize the Senator from the Trade Federation at this time. Please return to your station.
b. The correct position of a vessel or (in later use) an aircraft in a squadron or battle formation. Cf. to keep one's station at Phrases 3a(a), station-keeping n. and adj. at Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squadron > position of ship in squadron
station1624
1624 G. Carleton Thankfull Remembrance xii. 136 Every Ship had his station assigned according to that prescribed forme which was appointed in Spaine.
a1661 J. Glanville Voy. Cadiz (1883) 15 To enioyne our ffleete to advance & fight att Sea, much after the maner of an Armie at land, assigneing every shipp to a perticular division, ranke, file, and station.
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. at Signals Those Ships which are to Leeward of him, must endeavour to get into his Wake or Grain, according to their Station in the Line of Battle.
1757 Trial Honourable Admiral Byng 38/2 The Deptford..seeming to me to be standing for the Intrepide's Station in the Line.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 287 The ship will fall into her station without any difficulty.
1843 A. Murray Doings in China 11 We should..have been a long time in getting to our station in the fleet; whereas in a few hours she towed us up.
1886 Ld. Brassey Naval Ann. 131 The station of that noble specimen of the American liners was far away in the van of the squadron.
1943 Life 29 Nov. 82/3 Smoke immediately trailed from both B-17's, but they held their stations.
2004 G. L. McIntosh War Diary xv. 291 The destroyers formed an anti-submarine screen, with Stevens assuming station three.
c. A place in which a person chooses to position himself or herself; the place a person is occupying; (sometimes) spec. a place or position taken up as a viewpoint. Cf. to take (up) (one's) station at Phrases 3b.Sometimes (esp. in early use) implying a standing place.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun]
sightc1515
standing point1606
station1659
aspect1660
point of view1701
viewpoint1839
visual point1842
standpoint1843
eye-point1875
1659 Publick Intelligencer No. 179. 475 It is believed they will fix their station in this City and return no more to Siena, but remove their Families hither as fast as they can.
1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer Preamble. sig. B8 The several stations, in which the Artists take view of the place will occasion a great dissimilitude of that which is represented.
1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 619 I got a station..at the doore of the Lobby to the House, to heare much of the debate.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 2 We counted twenty-four Villages,..within our View from one Station.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 256 I placed my self on my former station in hopes of a repeated visit.
1770 W. Shirley Sweet the Moments ii, in S. Hastings Coll. Hymns 141 Truly blessed is this Station Low before his Cross to lye.
1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Flood of Thessaly in Poems i. 138 From that high station Jove doth watch the world.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 11 Can there be a lovelier station than this spot where now we stand?
1911 A. W. Dimock Bk. Tarpon xiii. 181 The tarpon..carried out a hundred feet of line and I almost regretted my resolve not to move..from my station at the mouth of the creek.
2005 J. Small Sacred Purpose being Human vii. 64 From this higher station, see what it is that's really going on.
d. Rowing (chiefly British). The position along the width of a course from which each boat starts; spec. either side of a river in a two-boat race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race > position
station1834
1834 True Sun 5 July 4/2 The toss for the choice of stations was won by the wherry.
1868 Field 4 July 14/3 A change of station might have altered the result.
1919 T. A. Cook Henley Races 202 The wind had increased off the Bucks, giving a good deal of advantage to the boat on that station.
1997 Rowing News 13 Apr. 16/2 Both winning crews chose the Surrey station.
2. Nautical.
a. Originally: a port, harbour, or roadstead for ships. Now chiefly: a place at which ships of a nation's navy are regularly stationed, or may dock for repair, refuelling, etc. Also more fully naval station.With naval use, compare uses in the other armed forces at sense 3.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun]
hithec725
havenOE
port1340
stationa1382
harbourc1405
haveningc1425
piera1552
harbourage1850
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > [noun] > action, fact, or opportunity of anchoring > place of anchorage > roadstead > specific
stationa1382
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval station
naval station1615
admiralty1677
naval base1863
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlix. 13 Ȝabulon in þe brynk of þe see schall dwell, & in þe stacyon of schippes [L. in statione navium].
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. L.viv The Ilande of Melcha,..in which is sayde to be great ryches, & the stacion of restinge place of all shippes comming from the goulfe Gangeticus.
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 5 The Station of the Grand-Nauy-Royall.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 The ruines [of Troy]..are..too neare the navall station to affoord a field for such dispersed encounters.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1677 (1955) IV. 115 The bedding being soft mudd, it is safe for ships, & a station.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. 15 At Chatham is a Station for the Navy-Royal.
1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Hope, a station for ships in the mouth of the river Thames, below Gravesend.
1813 J. A. Cummings Introd. Anc. & Mod. Geogr. 10 The land poor, and of no great value to the nation, but as a station for ships.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 534/1 Portsmouth, a municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and naval station of Hampshire.
1907 T. D. Seymour Life in Homeric Age xvii. 526 Limestone cliffs more than one hundred feet in height, affording no station for ships.
1918 H. H. Powers Amer. among Nations xv. 236 A naval and maritime state must have its stations scattered through the seven seas.
2004 D. Fitz-Enz Old Ironsides iii. 61 The need for naval stations and friendly ports for sea power is still of paramount importance to national goals.
†b. A place in a harbour where a vessel may be moored; a mooring, a dock. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > place for a vessel in a harbour
station1630
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 561 The Turkish Arsenals for shipping are foure; the first..containeth three and thirty docks or stations for so many Gallies.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Rrrr3v A safe and capacious Bay;..in the body of it full of convenient Stations and Docks for shipping.
1735 W. Stukeley Let. in F. Drake Eboracum (1736) i. ii. 39 The vestigia of the Roman dock or station of the boats, now overgrown with sedge and moor.
c. Originally and chiefly Navy. A place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > region to which ship assigned
station1666
country1867
1666 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 350 We shall have but 80 sayle this summer to fight the Dutch, the rest are designed for the western station.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 Now we are in our Station, and a good Latitude.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 22 Such cruising Ships..who are appointed..to have their Station in the narrow Seas, between England and Ireland.
1775 London Chron. 14–16 Mar. 254/2 His Majesty's ship Coventry..is under sailing orders for the East Indies, with dispatches for the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships on that station.
1813 Sir J. Graham in C. S. Parker Life & Lett. (1907) I. 32 I hear from all the captains on the station that there cannot be a more promising youngster.
1864 Times 12 July 11/5 The Pigmy paddle steamer..sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning to resume her station south of the Isle of Wight.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 11/1 She was fit for service on the Australasian Station.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 154 Opposite number, oppo, one of two hands who perform similar duties alternately; he may be on another ship or station.
2001 J. P. Duffy Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet ix. 186 The raider reached her station in the South Atlantic.
d. The period during which a vessel is appointed to a particular place. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > period of vessel in particular station
station1762
1762 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 76/2 One channel cruize, one uninterrupted six, seven, even eight months station off Brest.
1791 J. Ingraham Jrnl. 13 Jan. in Jrnl. Brigantine Hope (1971) 27 The ship is relieved every six months by another, when the one whose station is out sails for Rio de la Plata.
1861 H. A. Tilley Japan, Amoor & Pacific 208 The Sybille..was returning home from her long station.
1878 J. Bates Early Life & Later Experience & Labors vii. 89 The Swiftshore,..recently returned from her three years' station in the Mediterranean.
1917 Information Ann. 1916 20/2 The schooner Alaska left her two years' station at Bernard Harbor.
3.
a. Army. A place where soldiers are garrisoned, a military post.In quot. a1382: the body of men garrisoned at a particular post.field, home station: see the first element.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xiii. 23 Þe stacyoun forsoþe of philisteeym wente out [L. egressa est statio Philisthiim].
1544 A. Cope Hist. Anniball & Scipio liv. f. 104 Then Scipio,..caused al his horsemen, with lyght armour, to inuade the station or campe of the Carthaginenses.
1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation ii. sig. H3 Certaine garrisons of men, in stations settled there.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvi. i. 55 Marcellus Generall of the Horse, who abode then but in the next stations, drave off to aid him.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 253 Prince Maurice..built a continuing Station for his Camp.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) III. 256 Overborough..was a famous Station of Antoninus, called Bremetonacæ.
1769 W. Anderson Hist. France II. v. v. 253 The station he sought, for the repose of his troops, the re-armament of the dissipated parties of the protestants, [etc.].
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Post, in war, a military station; any sort of ground, fortified or not, where a body of men can be in a condition of resisting the enemy.
1881 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army (War Office) II. xvii. 236 No women whose husbands are not on the married roll are to be allowed to embark for a foreign station.
1911 D. Wallace Saddle & Camp in Rockies xxi. 288 Red tape held me at the soldiers' station at Snake River until near midday.
1948 B. I. Wiley in R. R. Palmer et al. Procurem. & Training Ground Combat Troops 615 Station supply officers could obtain uncontrolled items from depots by routine requisition.
2006 R. S. Rush Enlisted Soldier's Guide (ed. 7) v. 62 Full reimbursement of expenses for official travel and changes of station.
b. In India under the dominion of the East India Company or (later) the British Raj: a place inhabited by the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison. Also: the people living in such a place collectively. Now historical.hill station: see the first element.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > of Europeans in India
compound1679
station1778
plain station1851
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > inhabitant of a district or parish > [noun] > collectively > in India
station1866
1778 J. Rennell Descr. Roads Bengal & Bahar Pref. p. ii These stations are either the seats of provincial councils, or of collectors.
1783 in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1787) VI. 143 Mr. Laplant, and the other Gentlemen, who have been many years serving the Company, at that Station [sc. Patna].
1832 B. M. H. Ali Observ. on Mussulmauns of India I. viii. 196 The nobles and gentlemen are frequently invited to witness a ‘station-ball’.
1848 Alfred in India 12 There are also numbers in the civil service, and they reside at what are called stations.
1866 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 231 Who asked the Station to dinner, and allowed only one glass of simkin to each guest?
1906 A. Perrin Red Rec. 187 There is no dulness to compare with the dulness of a small Mofussil station in the rainy season.
1980 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 202 The gradual development of the British army camp..into the Anglo-Indian station.
2003 B. Cleverly Last Kashmiri Rose xvi. 209 I wanted you to see India as it really is... The station is unreal. It's more British than Britain.
c. Chiefly Air Force. An airfield, spec. a military one. Cf. sense 2a.More fully air station (see air n.1 Compounds 2).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > station or base
station1911
airbase1913
bird farm1942
bomber base1959
1911 Aeronautics Apr. 13/2 Starting and Landing Stations... The I.C. and L.D.C. class would be permitted to use public stations only and local traffic could use them if they required.
1914 War Gazetteer (N.Y. Evening Post) 19/2 Austria-Hungary has a small naval service of hydro-aeroplanes, the station being at Pola.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 85/1 At the outbreak of the World War the stations on the organized east coast system of aerial patrol were as follows:—Eastchurch, [etc.].
1942 I. Gleed Arise to Conquer vi. 51 The Squadron..felt very bolshie about all the bull that was flying around the station.
2010 A. Ashmole Sand, Oil & Dollars i. 7 The RAF station itself was very small consisting of perhaps 20 or 30 airmen and a couple of officers.
4.
a. The place in which a thing stands or is positioned; a thing's (proper) location or position.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied
stead1246
sitec1400
station?1440
situation1542
residency1579
platform1589
region1664
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xiii. l. 18 Vlpike and oynouns in their stacioun To growe.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Index sig. Oiijv Entralls beinge out of the Bellye, must everye one be agayne restorede into his..naturall statione.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 The gunwayle, stations for the nettings, a chaine through the stations, or brest-ropes.
1669 J. Rose Eng. Vineyard (1675) 25 This will likewise maintain them cold and fresh in summer, till they have struck and taken hold of their stations.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 77 Whether they were cut out of the Rock,..or whether they were brought, and fix'd in their station like other doors.
1786 R. E. Raspe Gulliver Revived (ed. 3) 93 Taking one house from it's station and placing another in it's stead.
1829 N. Arnott & I. Hays Elements Physics (1st Amer. ed.) iii. 405 If this other [rod] be then pulled a little to one side of its station of rest, and suddenly let go, it will seek its station again.
1899 M. W. Ormerod Madam Paradox xii. 129 Portraits were looking down upon him from their station on the wall.
1922 Color Trade Jrnl. 11 82/2 The skewers should rest upon glass porcelain bearings in the stations.
1990 F. Mastini Ship Modeling Simplified ii. 29 The bulkheads all are set in their stations with the spacers installed.
†b. The height at which the mercury in a barometer stands. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > barometer > height of mercury in
altitude1660
station1664
1664 H. Oldenburg Let. to Boyle 27 Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 366 The said operator of the Society..doth keep a Diary of the stations of that Mercury, together with the state of the winds and Weather.
1666 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 237 When the Mercury..is either very high, or very low, or at a middle station between its greatest and least height.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 16/2 [Barometer] Common station 30 1/10.
1806 Philos. Mag. 23 290 From latitude 26° north to latitude 10° north, the difference of the high and low stations of the mercury in the barometers was not so great.
1874 Spons' Dict. Engin. VIII. 2699 Put T and T1 for the corresponding temperatures at the two stations of the mercury in degrees of Fahrenheit.
†c. Mathematics. = place n.1 16. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > decimal > point or place
fourth1594
prime1608
separatrix1660
third1660
decimal point1701
station1702
point1704
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Theoret. Arithm. i. 17 The Divisor being removed one station [L. statione], repeat this Process, until all the figures of the Dividend be wasted.
1797 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize (ed. 3) i. i. 5 An additional character or cypher (0) is necessary..which serves to supply the vacant places, and bring the figures to their proper stations.
d. Biology. The kind of place in which a plant or animal best thrives; the nature or essential characteristics of its habitat. Now rare.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > environment or habitat > [noun]
station1718
habitat1796
metropolis1826
range1830
reach1849
biosphere1899
1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 3 (ed. 2) 192 Such Seeds, would then be removed from the proper Station requir'd for their Growth, and would therefore perish.
1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 69 Station indicates the peculiar nature of the locality where each species is accustomed to grow, and has reference to climate, soil, humidity, light, elevation above the sea, and other analogous circumstances; whereas by habitation is meant a general indication of the country where a plant grows wild.
1854 Stark Brit. Mosses 59 Giving such explanation of the terms as will..enable the tyro Muscologist,..to assign their proper station and name to the mosses he may pick up.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. xi. 403 Males and females of the same species of butterfly are known in several cases to inhabit different stations.
1922 A. H. Church Introd. Plant Life Oxf. District iii. 28 Thus tropical evergreen rain-forest is not only the primary station for higher plant-life on the land.
e. Chiefly Botany. A location at which a particular species of plant or (occasionally) animal is found.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > specific plants > location of
station1794
1794 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. III. No. 176 The plant was then lost, from the place having been drained, so that we really do not know a certain station of this Lysimachia at present.
1818 T. Walford Sci. Tourist I. Herefordshire There are many rare plants in Herefordshire; but their stations not being particularized in the County History, I can only add the few following.
1834 Entomol. Mag. Jan. 44 We are left to guess as to what part of a region, extending over 50° of latitude, and as many longitude..is the principal station of an insect.
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. i. 31/2 The Falkland Islands, Nootka Sound, and Tasmania, may be quoted as some of the outlying stations for the species of Agrostis.
1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 269 This bramble is extremely rare in the county as a whole, for but one station is given by Mr. Murray in Fl. Som.
1980 Watsonia 13 170 There are four main stations of Fritillaria meleagris L. in E. Suffolk,..three of which are managed by the Suffolk Trust for Nature Conservation.
2008 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 29 50/1 This new station represents a significant range expansion for E [pilobium] pedunculare. However, it is highly likely that it is presently under-recorded.
5.
a. A place where a particular kind of business, research, service, etc., is based or carried out; a base or centre equipped for a particular purpose. Frequently with modifying word.experiment, field, life-saving, power, telegraph station, etc.: see the first element. See also substation n.1 2.In quot. a1450: a moneylender's booth or stall.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > where staff and apparatus are stationed
stationa1450
a1450 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Douce 295) vii. xxvii. f. 178 Wher by schulde men knowyn an opyn vsurere..Ȝif he kepe opyn stacioun or opyn schoppe to lenyn..for vsure.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 135 (heading) Of the station or burse of merchants in Fez.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 294 The Fisher-men..made it a station for fishing before it came to be inhabited.
1786 C. F. in G. Pitcairn Retrosp. View Scots Fisheries (1787) iii. 86 It will be necessary for such a company to have them [sc. barrels]..made at their principal fishing station.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 154/1 Any means of telegraphic communication which depends upon the deciphering of signals exhibited at a distant station is necessarily dependent upon contingencies of weather.
1861 L. A. Meredith Over the Straits i. 7 At Maria Island..and other so-called ‘probation-stations’..the prisoners were used in tens and twenties.
1885 W. K. Brooks in Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. III. 367 Their fruitful harvest furnishes one with the earliest evidences of the value of marine zoological stations.
1913 Nature 14 Aug. 610/1 Milne's aim was to secure a great number of seismological stations, scattered as widely as possible over the globe.
1934 H. E. Middleton et al. Physical & Chem. Characteristics Soils from Erosion Exper. Stations 20 The samples were collected by the men in charge at the various stations.
1982 D. S. Ryan Looking for Kathmandu vii. 76 She had been teaching children in a village medical station run by nuns.
2002 Nature 12 Dec. 628/3 Analysis of the meteorological station data for Kericho also showed no change in annual temperature.
b. A permanent establishment of missionaries; = mission n. 4a. More fully mission station (see mission n. Compounds 1).
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society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > post or station
mission1770
station1799
1799 Evangelical Mag. Jan. 13 There will then be three considerable Missionary stations, surrounded by other accessible islands.
1819 S. Marsden Lett. & Jrnls. (1932) 200 This was a very solitary station..a day's journey from any native village or farm.
1883 C. F. Wilder Sister Ridnour's Sacrifice 229 The converts..have been for many weeks at the station.
1923 O. Schreiner Thoughts on S. Afr. 16 A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church..came to spend a night at our station.
1962 R. Allen Missionary Meth. vi. 52 We constantly hear our missionaries lament that they cannot open new stations where they are sorely needed.
2007 M. Berlinski Fieldwork ii. i. 96 They arrived in Bantang..and were warmly welcomed by the other permanent missionaries at the station.
c. The office or headquarters of a local police force; = police station n.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station
police office1781
station1814
police station1820
factory1890
front office1900
cop-shop1941
law station1958
bear den1975
1814 Regulation Provinc. Courts Java in Rev. Colony of Java 128 In each division there shall be fixed a station of police.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Nov. 3/1 Proceeding to Leman-street police station..Mr. Davis found the entrance to the station barricaded with several crossings of red tape.
1908 Pacific Reporter 98 44/2 Defendant said to the sergeant in charge of the station: ‘Here is a man I took on Sunset boulevard’.
1960 H. Williams & M. Williams Double Yolk in Plays of Year XXI. 47 He said I must go to the station with him, as he'd have to charge me with driving under the influence.
2001 D. King Burglar Diaries xiv. 96 I′ll go down the station all you want mate, I still ain′t putting my hands up to nothing though.
d. The office or headquarters of a local fire brigade; = fire station n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > fire-brigade > headquarters of fire-brigade
fire station1819
station1833
fire hall1866
firehouse1869
fire command1941
1833 Morning Post 17 Jan. The Deputation stated that the following were the stations at which there was constant attendance day and night.
1860 Morning Chron. 4 Oct. 3/6 Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the brigade, immediately sent to the other stations all over the metropolis for the engines.
1905 Fire & Water Engin. 13 May 256/2 At the central station there are six permanent men, and one permanent man is attached to each hose house within the precinct.
1982 Jet 14 Jan. 32/2 Firefighters at a station in Olympia, Washington slept while their station burned.
2004 R. Tutterow in A. E. Cote Fund. Fire Protection vi. 200 Depending on the needs of the fire department, there may be a training room in the station.
e. Originally and chiefly Scottish = preaching station n. at preaching n. Compounds 2. Now rare.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > other > [noun] > preaching building
tickling-house1681
preaching house1713
preaching station1792
station1845
1845 Sc. Congregational Mag. Feb. 54 Several ministers from England..also crossed the water, and preached at the station in Newport.
1857 Home & Foreign Rec. Free Church Scotl. Jan. 147/1 At the Disruption, a station was opened at this village by the Presbytery of Wigtown.
1904 R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. II. 402 The station was opened..on the first Sabbath of November.
1910 Ann. Northern Baptist Convent. App. D. 116 We have the hearty co-operation of all the pastors of the city. Each of them has preached at the station at some time during the past year.
f. North American. A subsidiary post office. Cf. postal station (b) at postal adj. and n. Compounds.In early use perhaps simply: a place where mail may be deposited for collection.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > post office
letter office1635
post-house1635
post office1659
post hut1753
post-shed1753
P.O.1824
station1845
post1848
1845 N.-Y. State Reg. 226 All Letters placed in the Boxes at the various Stations, together with all City Letters deposited either in the Post Office, or in the Branch Post Office, will be under the charge of the Department.
1847 Californian 31 July 3/3 (advt.) The Post Office stations are, at San Francisco—B. R. Buckelew's, [etc.].
1860 Unlawful Coll. & Delivery Lett. (U.S. House of Representatives No. 81, 36th Congr., 1st Sess.) 2 The one in Union square is located next door to the United States post office station ‘D’, one of the six regular stations for the receipt and distribution of the mails in that city.
1891 Rep. Postmaster Gen. U.S. 81 In St. Louis..there are but six points, the main office and the five stations, where these conveniences are to be found.
1939 J. L. Floherty Make Way for Mail x. 158 Twenty-four sub-postal stations are connected by tube system with the general post office.
1980 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 12 Apr. b10 (advt.) Forward completed application form PSC 367 (4-77), available at Canada Post Offices or Stations, Canada Employment Centres, [etc.].
2006 E. Stuart Post Office Paranoid iv. 141 I would use my own money to get stamps from one of the clerks at the little station in the mall.
g. Chiefly with modifying word: a place, esp. in a room or building, which is set aside for a particular purpose, or where a specific piece of equipment is available; spec. a location in an automated processing or manufacturing system where one of a series of operations takes place. Later also: the piece of equipment installed or used in such a place.Recorded earliest in pay station n. 2.Cf. workstation n.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun] > systems design or analysis > location
station1888
society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > workstation
workstation1910
station1976
1888 Cent. Mag. June 307/1 At Sam Brassey's suggestion the post-office had been arranged as a public pay station of the Seaside Hotel Telephone Company.
1925 Bakersfield Californian 7 Dec. 3/6 (advt.) Post Office and Gift Wrapping Station in the Downstairs Store.
1939 Salt Lake Tribune 21 July 14/1 The portable dressing room..has been converted into a nursery and diaper-changing station.
1949 B. L. Davies Technol. Plastics xvii. 317 Each one of a number of moulds is placed at a station round the table and a cam device is provided for opening it..as the table rotates.
1972 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 12 Sept. 26/2 The use of the pillow eliminates the time needed to run to the nearest fire extinguisher station to obtain equipment.
1976 Sci. Amer. Feb. 77 (caption) The three components..are..carried rear end first past five welding stations.
1982 Gazette-Reporter (Rivers, Manitoba) 27 Jan. 7/4 Safety equipment such as eyewash stations have [sic] already prevented serious eye damage in at least one situation.
2002 M. Siegal & M. Margolis Good Life ii. 36 Most new mamas and papas get ahead of the game by buying a car seat, high chair, changing station, diapers..and..teddy bears, all before the baby arrives.
h. An establishment or organization transmitting radio or television signals; a broadcasting company. Later also: a band of frequencies used by a particular broadcasting company; a channel.Originally as the second element in compounds. Recorded earliest in radio station n. at radio n. Compounds 3. Cf. also television station n. at television n. Compounds 4.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcasting service > [noun] > broadcasting station
station1910
transmitting station1923
television station1926
rebroadcaster1930
TV station1945
1910 L. De Forest in N.Y. Times 27 Mar. 2/6 This message marks the opening of the new Manhattan Life Radio Station.
1922 Sci. & Invention Feb. 937/2 Enjoy wireless telephone music sent out by the now famous Westinghouse broadcasting station at Newark, or from one of the dozen other stations.
1929 Boys' Life June 28/3 Television station W2XBS..is now on the air daily from 7 to 9 P. M.
1931 Rotarian Apr. 7/1 In the true sense of the word, television will come when stations regularly, through remote control, broadcast visual objects in the studio, [etc.].
1959 A. Webster Roots ii. i. 37 She turns the radio on, turning the dial knob through all manner of stations.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 432 The Vermont station carried the game..from Philadelphia.
1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) Nov. 98/2 Williams plays a faux-naïf who works as a programmer at a station specializing in vintage TV.
2007 Independent 31 Dec. 31/2 I will change the station on the car radio without pulling into a lay-by.
i. Originally U.S. The headquarters of an intelligence service in a particular foreign country.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > headquarters of an intelligence service
centre1924
station1952
1952 Memo (Central Intelligence Agency) 1 From: Chief of Station.
1966 N.Y. Times 26 Apr. 30/4 While such operatives may be known to ‘the chief of station’—the top C.I.A. officer in any country—they are rarely known to the American Ambassador.
1973 A. Mann Tiara vii. 57 Would you ask the station to let me know each day what they hear?
1984 F. Forsyth Fourth Protocol xii. 217 Alan Fox was the local Head of Station for the American CIA.
2000 S. Dorril MI6 (2002) xv. 256 MI6 ran another intelligence and covert operations network outside of the Warsaw station.
2004 9/11 Comm. Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks U.S.) iv. 109 A ‘virtual station’—a station based at headquarters but collecting and operating against a subject much as stations in the field focus on a country.
6.
a. Surveying. Each of the selected points at which observations or measurements are taken. Also place of station (see also point of station n. (a) at point n.1 Phrases 4m).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > point where observations taken
station?a1560
stationary point1661
point of station1671
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxv. sig. H j A the toppe of the hill, B the foote, C my station or the place of mine eie.
1590 J. Blagrave Baculum Familliare xviii. 27 Marke that station on the ground... Then measure exactly the distance betweene those two stations.
1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum iii. vii. 68 Appoint thy first station, and there place thy staffe, and take the angle of altitude.
1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2094 Joyn DC, and produce the same, then a Circle passing through the Points A, B, D, intersects DC, produced at S, the place of Station.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 19 Draw out the Line C D, and it will cut the Circle in S, the Point of Station required.
1880 L. d'A. Jackson Aid Surv.-pract. 112 A base line is measured..and a network of triangles conveniently arranged by choosing suitable positions for stations.
1913 Topographic Instr. U.S. Geol. Surv. (U.S. Geol. Surv.) 114 A signal should be erected when necessary to mark place of station for future reference.
1940 J. G. Staack Transit Traverse in Missouri: Northeastern Missouri p. x The description of each station or supplemental point is followed by its geodetic coordinates.
2004 H. L. Field Landscape Surv. ii. 22/2 Some lasers use a reflector at the second station to reflect the signal back to the instrument.
b. Shipbuilding. Each of a series of equally spaced points along a line running the length of a vessel at which the form of the hull cross-section is (to be) specified; a position in a ship's frame which corresponds to such a point.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > lines, sections, or elevations
middle line?c1400
sweep1627
lines1680
touch1711
waterline1750
station1754
sheer-draught1769
body plan1781
sheer-line1797
sheer-plan1797
touchline1797
water plane1798
centreline1806
buttock line1816
crown1830
scrieve1830
top-breadth line1846
wave-line1846
floor-plan1867
1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. ii. 150 Set up the heighths of the lower, upper, and top timber breadth lines upon the perpendiculars erected for the stations of the several timbers.
1841 A. F. B. Creuze Treat. Theory & Pract. Naval Archit. (new ed.) 70/1 To obtain the round-down of the deck at any particular station, take the half-breadth of the ship at that station, [etc.].
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding viii. 154 When the lengths of the beams are taken from the ship the stations of the holes are marked on the mould, and transferred from it to the beam.
1913 Board of Trade Instr. Tonnage Measurem. Rule 13. Points of division of length, or stations of the transverse areas.
2002 D. Stimson Ocean Pointer v. 26 Their aft faces represent the correct sectional shape of the boat at each station.
7.
a. The locality to which a person is appointed to work; spec. a church or area to which a minister (esp. a Methodist minister) is assigned (cf. circuit n. 6).
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society > authority > office > [noun] > locality of office
station1587
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc.
space?a1400
standa1400
stance1532
settling1582
station1587
consistory1592
roosting place1643
pitch1699
standing place1736
terrain1832
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. iii. 247 The Apostles had no certaine station; but oftentimes ranne about hether and thether, to fownde newe Churches.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 116 Their..Priests are bred here, and from hence dispersed to their seuerall stations.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 14 June (1974) VIII. 268 I am glad my station is to be here—near my own home.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. iii. 154/2 He continued in his Roxbury Station, for Three Years more than Thrice seven together.
1797 Arminian Mag. Oct. 521 (heading) The Stations of the Preachers.
1840 Monthly Suppl. Sc. Christian Herald July 72/1 Mr Simpson..was appointed to the station of Cowan's Mills.
1893 D. Davidson Mem. Long Life (ed. 2) viii. 198 Tanna was his judicial station.
1916 C. Z. Lincoln Civil Law & Church 347 A station is a single place of stated service, while a circuit has several.
2001 K. B. W. Tucker Amer. Methodist Worship i. 6 City stations and communities with a resident local preacher could expect a Sunday service.
b. In plural (chiefly with capital initial). Methodism (colloquial). The annual list of ministers' appointments. Now historical and rare.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun] > instance of > annual list of Methodists
stations1810
1810 J. Lee Short Hist. Methodists 311 In the stations the elders names were printed in italic.
1853 Minutes 110th Ann. Conf. Methodist Ministers 79 The places marked thus * are towns or villages mentioned in the ‘Stations’.
1885 Minutes Wesleyan Conf. 43 Each of the places mentioned in these Stations..is the head of a Circuit.
1969 J. A. Vickers T. Coke ix. 145 The names of Freeborn Garrettson and James Cromwell appear alongside that of M'Geary in the Stations for 1785.
8. Australian and New Zealand. An extensive area of grazing land; a large cattle or sheep farm; = run n.2 13.cattle, sheep, stock station: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farm
sheep-steading1566
sheep-stead1581
sheep-farm1776
station1853
squattage1862
1820 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1921) 3rd Ser. II. 207 The Herds at each Station are to be Surveyed by a Committee.
1853 C. W. Adams Spring in Canterbury Settlem. 69 The station..was a large sheep farm, extending over twelve square miles of pasture land.
1908 C. H. S. Matthews Parson in Austral. Bush 137 At one station last shearing season 110,000 sheep were ‘put through’..in about 7 weeks.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 463/1 The present farm was part of a large station.
2002 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Dec. 7 They're isolated at the station for eight days, to shear 11,000 merino sheep.
9. Australian. A tract of land recognized as being occupied by Australian Aboriginal people; a reserve for Australian Aboriginal people, esp. as established by a religious mission or government agency. More fully Aboriginal station (cf. aboriginal adj. 2b). Now historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > reservation for indigenous people
reserve1667
Indian reserve1752
reservation1792
Indian reservation1804
station1825
location1833
native reserve1842
native location1866
res1880
native location1928
township1934
homeland1959
1825 J. Uniacke in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 57 The principal station of the tribe..was about two miles higher up the Pumice-stone River.
1841 Port Phillip Patriot (Melbourne) 16 Sept. 5/2 There is no station reserved for the tribe the prisoner belongs to.
1889 Illustr. Austral. News (Melbourne) 1 Aug. 6/1 A suggestion has been made to utilise the Station for Aborigines at Coranderrk as a dairy farm school.
1907 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 46 322 Rev. L. Schulze, a missionary at the aboriginal station at Hermannsburg, on the Upper Finke River.
1984 P. Read Down there with me on Cowra Mission 133 They referred to them as fringe dwellers, because the Aboriginal stations would be set up on the outskirts of town.
2000 P. Read Settlement iv. 61 It was only eight years since the Victorian Aborigines Protection Board had passed legislation to evict all Aboriginals of part descent from its reserves and stations.
** Figurative uses.
10. A person's position in life as determined by external circumstances or conditions; a status; a situation; spec. a calling, an office. private station n. now rare a personal or non-official position or capacity; one's private life.In quot. 1574 with some reference to sense 1a.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession
workeOE
mysteryc1390
facultyc1405
business1477
industrya1500
roomc1500
trade1525
pursuit1529
function1533
calling1539
profession?1552
vocation1553
entertainment1568
station1574
qualitya1586
employment1598
way of lifea1616
state1625
cloth1656
avocation1660
setworka1661
employ1669
estate1685
walk of life?1746
walk1836
society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] > unofficial
private station1574
society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade
mannishOE
placec1330
state1340
gree1382
conditionc1384
sectc1384
sortc1386
ordera1400
raff?a1400
degreea1425
countenancec1477
faction?1529
estate1530
race1563
calibre1567
being1579
coat1579
rang1580
rank1585
tier1590
classis1597
strain1600
consequence1602
regiment1602
sept1610
standinga1616
class1629
species1629
nome1633
quality1636
sort1671
size1679
situation1710
distinction1721
walk of life1733
walk1737
stage1801
strata1805
grade1808
caste1816
social stratum1838
station1842
stratum1863
echelon1950
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. v. 244 Wheresoeuer the preacher may do most good, thither is he called of God: neyther is this to forsake his station, but to followe his calling, and to do good.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. lxxi. 804 Euery one of vs must take his vocation and calling for a principle and ground, & for a station assigned of God [Fr. vne station assignee de Dieu].
1611 W. Est Sathans Sowing Season 62 Euery one ought especially to keepe himselfe in the army of the Church, and next in his priuate station.
1697 G. Dallas Syst. Stiles i. Ded. Being perswaded by some persons of the greatest Quality in the Kingdom, and others in Publick Stations.
1713 J. Addison Cato iv. 54 When Vice prevails, and impious Men bear sway, The Post of Honour is a private Station.
1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers II. 71 His sermon..is to consist of some general observations concerning the marriage station.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 It is a dangerous invasion When poets criticise; their station Is to delight, not pose.
1838 J. F. Cooper Amer. Democrat 87 A regard for the duties of private station, are indispensable to order.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iv. 160 It is their station to work. And they do work.
1908 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Fair Mississippian vii. 162 His poverty, his station as a private tutor,..rendered his presence an incongruity.
1922 H. W. Ruoff Standard Dict. Facts (rev. ed.) 231/2 Princes and men in power confer; people in a private station bestow.
1979 N.Y. Mag. 8 Jan. 43/3 They..insulated him from the criticism and difficulties which almost certainly would have afflicted another man in his station.
2002 D. L. Anderson in W. P. Aston Realism & Antirealism viii. 143 Human beings who privilege themselves as knowing more of the deep facts about the universe than it is their station to know.
11. A position in a sequence, series, or (esp.) hierarchy; a rank, a class, a standing; (occasionally) spec. a high rank or standing.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > position in a line
station1591
linage1883
1591 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Proc. Harmonie King Davids Harpe 163 How feeble a thing mans vertue is, and how soone she is cast out of her stacion [L. de gradu deijciatur].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 103 If you haue a station in the file, Not i' th' worst ranke of Manhood. View more context for this quotation
1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. 679 The Apostles were placed in a higher station than any of the rest, as being authorized by Christ to superintend and preside over them.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 336 He..wins mankind, as his attempts prevail, A prouder station on the gen'ral scale.
1846 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 6) 231/2 Given as a tonic, but not worthy of an officinal station.
1848 T. De Quincey Wks. A. Pope in N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 301 For not only is much that takes a station in books not literature; but inversely, much that really is literature never reaches a station in books.
1908 Jrnl. Med. Soc. New Jersey 5 1/2 The greater the enlightenment of the nation and hence the higher its station among the world powers.
1985 E. Schweid Land Israel ii. v. 79 This [sc. repentance] has the power to connect the people once more with its true ‘place’, its station in the order of the supernal elements.
2008 M. Brown Tearing down Wall Sound iv. 59 A location befitting its station at the top of the music publishing tree.
12.
a. Position in the social scale; a person's social status. Cf. above one's station at above adv., prep., n., and adj. Phrases 8a.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun]
estatec1230
statec1300
rowa1350
qualityc1425
calling1477
range1494
line1528
stature1533
respect1601
station1603
gradationa1616
ordinancea1616
repute1615
spherea1616
distance1635
impression1639
civils1650
footing1657
regimen1660
order1667
sect1709
caste1791
status1818
position1829
social status1833
standpoint1875
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 74 And they of France of the chiefe rancke and station Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 30 If our merits be above our Stations..our intrinsecal Value be greater than what we go for.
1742 Sherlock Let. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 27 Your lordship's great character & station place you out of the reach of any little service I am able to doe.
1783 E. Burke in 9th Rep. Commons Sel. Comm. Bengal, Bahar, & Orissa iii. 48 The reasons, assigned by Mr. Barwell..seem to Your Committee to be..not very fit to be urged by a Man in his Station.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. v. 156 If the club consisted chiefly of persons..somewhat inferior to Scott in birth and station.
1851 W. H. Dixon W. Penn iv. 123 A young woman of great beauty and spirit,..and of his own station in society.
1905 Trans. Florida Med. Assoc. 55 The effects are no respecter of persons, station or standing in life—we find it among all classes.
1959 Listener 2 July 12/2 We are in danger of forgetting our place, of getting ideas above our station.
1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. h2/4 People who, because of their low station.., never once dreamed of getting their names in the newspaper.
b. spec. High social position or status; social distinction. Frequently in of (also †in) station.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun]
highnesseOE
dignityc1230
worshiphead1340
gentryc1390
heighta1400
rank?c1430
portc1475
affair1480
stateliness1548
character1629
sublimitya1656
station1706
rate1707
elevatedness1731
tchin1861
1706 Coll. State Tracts Reign William III II. 786 He has been so honour'd and caress'd by Men of Station and Figure.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 354 Such men are rais'd to station and command, When Providence means mercy to a land.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. ii. 35 The villains could not sympathize with the delicate feelings of a man in station.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xx. 384 The army is officered by men of station and influence in the country.
1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 119 She had station, so she could patronize.
2007 J. Raffan Emperor of North iii. xix As a man of station, he would almost certainly have retained the high-waisted pinstripes.
II. The action or condition of standing still; a stop made for some purpose.
13. Astronomy and Astrology. The apparent stationary position in the sky of a planet when its motion changes from prograde to retrograde or vice versa; a similar phenomenon exhibited by the sun at a solstice, when it changes from moving north to moving south, or vice versa. Also: an instance of being in such a position. Cf. stationary adj. 1a.
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the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > station
stationc1386
c1386 Almanac (1812) 49 Fro þe stacyon of þe son estyval to þe stacyon of þe son hyemal.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3366 Whan þe shene sonne In þe Crabbe had his cours I-ronne To þe hiȝest of his ascencioun, Whiche called is þe somer stacioun.
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 279 The progression, retrogradation, and station of the Planetes.
1647 R. Cudworth Serm. 1 John ii. 3–4. 56 Those upper Planets in the Heaven..have their Stations and Retrogradations, as well as their Direct Motions.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 563 The Planets in thir stations list'ning stood. View more context for this quotation
1794 Ferguson's Astron. Explained (ed. 9) vi. 75 To every superior Planet, all the inferior ones have their Stations and Elongations.
1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 249 In speaking of the stations and retrogradations of the planets.
1886 W. A. Norton Treat. Astron., Spherical & Physical (ed. 6) xvii. 213 The planet will be at its western station when it is at the same angular distance from the sun as at its eastern station.
1987 B. Eastwood in E. Grant & J. E. Murdoch Math. & its Applic. to Sci. & Nat. Philos. v. 146 Venus has two stations at its greatest elongations after its two risings, morning and evening. Mercury's stations are too short to be seen.
2008 B. G. Baumann Divine Knowl. v. 137 At that time the stations of Jupiter were used in the calendar to denote the year.
14.
†a. An act of a pageant or a mystery play; a tableau. Cf. sense 20a. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > scene > scene or act of mystery play
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station?c1500
?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 155 Ffynally of this stacon thus we mak a conclusyon.
a1525 (?1474) Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 391 At Babulake yate there ordeyned a stacion, therin beyng kyng Richard with xiij other arrayed lyke as Dukes, Markises, Erles [etc.].
b. In Ireland: a municipal ceremony. Now historical (apparently only in station day n. 1).The exact purpose or constitution of the ceremony is unknown, but it appears to have involved a gathering of public officials and guildsmen.
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1560 in Sir J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1891) II. 9 Fremen..shall attende upon the Maior..at all stacion daies, and not to depart tyll the stacion be done.
1608 in Sir J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1891) II. 496 He shall hold his place in all stacions and meetinges nexte to those that have bene Sheryfes.
?1643 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 493 An order declaringe the right of precedencie in stations and publicke meetings within the countie of the towne of Galway.
15. The action or posture of standing on the feet; the manner of standing; stance. Cf. gait n.1 a.In later use chiefly in scientific and technical use, esp. in Medicine, but ‘stance’ is now more common. bipedal station n. Zoology (now rare) the condition of being bipedal. quadrupedal station n. Zoology (now rare) the condition of being quadrupedal.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [noun] > action or posture of standing
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [noun] > standing posture
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > quadruped > fact of being a quadruped
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1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riiiiv These cerymonyes that this doctour calleth but small thynges, I suppose they be as stacions, inclinacions, gestures..and suche other.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. v. sig. F4v If [she be] Reguardant; then, maintein your station,..shew the supple motion of your plyant body. View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 58 A station like the herald Mercury, New lighted on a heaue, a kissing hill.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xxi. 234 Nature..allowes us two feet for the firmer station.
1752 J. Smith Portrait of Old Age (ed. 3) 58 We well consider the true nature of progressive motion, and firm station on the ground.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. i. iii. 20 The quadrupedal station.
1876 D. Ferrier Functions Brain v. 81 These ganglia should be the co-ordinating centres of the muscular actions involved in station and locomotion.
1891 Cent. Dict. Station,..the manner of standing or the attitude of live stock, particularly of exhibition game fowls: as, a duck-wing game-cock of standard high station.
1914 Dog Fancier May 8/3 A nice dark brindle, good in body, station, head and ears, might be stronger in jaw, and not in best of flesh and condition.
1955 Lancet 10 Sept. 536/1 Physical signs may include ataxia of gait and station, dysarthria, nystagmus, adiadochokinesis, hypotonia, decrease in the abdominal reflexes.
2008 W. W. Campbell Pocket Guide & Toolkit Dejong's Neurologic Exam. xxxiii. 298 Station is tested by having the patient stand, feet closely together, noting any unsteadiness or swaying.
16. The state or fact of standing still; assumption of or continuance in a stationary condition; stationariness. Frequently opposed to motion. Now rare.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement
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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 815 Heraclitus excluded all station, rest and repose out of the world.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 32 The natural motion of the Sun made them more admire him, than its supernatural station did the Children of Israel. View more context for this quotation
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 231 That pleasure, wherein felicity consists, is of the first kind, the stable, or that which is in station.
1788 T. Taylor Diss. Platonic Doctr. Ideas in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. p. xciii Without motion and station, all things would..be inefficacious and dead.
1794 H. M. Tourner New Introd. Ital. Lang. 106 Verbs of station or of motion.
1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 122 His life is a progress, and not a station.
1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 340 Who can imagine a condition of simultaneous station and motion?
1914 Med. Rec. 5 Sept. 423/1 No tremor was manifest and there was no difficulty in station or gait.
1990 M. Ozaki Introd. Philos. Tanabe ii. 31 Reality occurs as a unity of station and motion.
17. A halt in a journey, a stop; a period spent in one place. Now rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
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1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxiv. 394 Presently they went from thence with like diligence, to go to a place..where they made their second station.
1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata ii. ii. 117 A portable Temple..which might be carried and removed, according to the stations and removes of Israel.
1712 W. Whiston tr. Recognitions Clement vii, in Primitive Christianity Reviv'd V. 246 When we were gone out of Tripoli..we made our first Station at Ortosias,..where we tarried the following Day also.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific viii. 100 After having enjoyed my first station here,..I again commenced my march.
1954 P. Horgan Great River I. ii. xxvii. 260 The south bank of the river.., where the supply trains between Mexico and New Mexico made a station on their long hauls north and south.
†18. Medicine. A phase of a disease; spec. its period of greatest severity (cf. state n. 9, status n. 1b). Obsolete.
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1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs (new ed.) 69 For otherwise, in either station of a disease, and with one only laxative, they should necessarily help equally, if they bring out the same peccant matter.
1654 N. Culpeper tr. S. Partlitz New Method of Physick v. vi. 467 The parts of a Disease are, the Beginning, Encrease, Station [L. statu], and Declination.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 437 Of the times of diseases, of the beginning, lesse considerable injury of action... In the augmentation worse... In the station worst... In the declination better.
1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. ii. xi. 113 The first station of this Disease [L. primum hujus morbi stadium], viz, until the whole Blood was fired, was extended to the third day; and then from thence, when the Blood flaming forth was burthened with adust recrements, its greater ebullition, with a frequent endeavour of expulsion by sweat followed.
1761 W. Hillary Inq. Means improving Med. Knowl. 285 He [sc. Hippocrates] first began the Method of carefully observing the Rise, Progress, Height, Declension, and the Manner by which Diseases were carried off at last, and no less accurately observed all the Symptoms which attended them, in each of those Times, or Stations of the Disease.
III. A stopping place.
19. Christian Church (chiefly Roman Catholic Church).
a. Each of a number of holy places visited by pilgrims, typically in fixed succession or at an appointed time; esp. each of those churches in the city of Rome at which ‘stations’ (sense 25b) are held, and for the visiting of which on certain days indulgences are granted. Usually in plural. Cf. senses at branch IV.
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society > faith > worship > pilgrimage > [noun] > place to which pilgrimage is made
stationc1390
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pilgrimage town1889
ziarat1913
c1390 (?a1300) Stations of Rome (Vernon) (1867) i. l. 230 And pardon in Rome, þat is grete, Þe Stacions þer men hit clepe Pope Bonefas confermed alle.
c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 41 (MED) It is a..couente of frer myenouris and..is neythir on of þe uii cherches ne non of þe patriarcal cherchis whech be clepe staciones.
c1500 Stations of Jerusalem (title) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 355 (MED) The stasyons of Jerusalem.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxii. sig. h.iiv So dyd Offa..Deuoutly to vysyte all the hole stacyons Of the cytee of Rome.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. h iiij Hathe Englond soche stacions, Of devoute peregrinacions, As are in Fraunce and Italy?
1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 51 A booke of the Stations of the Church of Rome.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 200 After that we went to the Tomb of St. Eusebius,..singing at these several stations, the proper Prayers.
1769 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley New Observ. Italy II. 114 The purgatory, the rosary, the stations to which the people throng on Sundays and holidays,..make the sum and substance of the most usual religious observances at Rome.
1822 Truth's Advocate June 327 Alexander VI..extended the indulgences which..used to be granted to those who visited the stations at Rome, unto all..who chose to pay for them.
1891 E. Graf tr. L. Pastor Hist. Popes from Close Middle Ages II. 83 The Pope..was seen to walk barefoot to visit the stations.
1917 W. H. T. Dau Luther examined & Reexamined 73 He ran through the seven stations of Rome.
2006 A. Minnis in L. Besserman Sacred & Secular in Medieval & Early Mod. Cultures iv. 69 In the case of the stations of Rome there are set indulgences instituted by the holy fathers.
b. Short for Station of the Cross n.
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1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 102 The twelve Stations of the Cross are marked out in imitation of what is observed near Jerusalem,..and the several paces between every Station set down.
1684 J. B. tr. G. Pontier New Surv. Europe 119 Round about the top of the Mountain there are seven Chappels or Oratories representing the seven Stations; and on the top Calvary.
1795 tr. A. Parvilliers (title) The Devotions on the Stations of the Passion of Jesus Christ crucified, which are made in Jerusalem.
1865 W. M. Blackburn W. Farel & Story Swiss Reform ii. 24 These kneeling-places are called stations on the way of the cross.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 434/2 Originally the stations were 7 in number, and this number is still met with abroad.
1921 C. Armanet Church Our Lady of Esperanza ii. 91 To gain the indulgences it is not necessary to meditate upon the episode represented in the Station.
2011 S. M. Lee Celebrating Lectionary for High School 32/1 Take the teens to view the stations in the church.
20.
a. Chiefly historical. Each of the sites appointed for the acts of a pageant, mystery play, or similar entertainment; (also) a place appointed for a procession to stop temporarily along its route.
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?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 363 The myght of the fadires potenciall deite Preserue thys honorable and wurshypfull congregacion That here be present of hye and low degre, To vnderstond thys pagent at thys lytyll stacion, Whych we shall procede with all our delectac[i]on.
1665 E. Phillips in Baker's Chron. Kings of Eng. (new ed.) 773 The Shouts and Acclamations of the People at this gallant and orderly Procession, were very great, and their Demonstrations of Joy, at the several Stations, when the Ceremony of Proclaiming was performing, not to be expressed.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. xxxvi. 309 At the stations or places where the public processions stop, statutes are erected.
1825 T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry 20 The moving of the Pageants from station to station was attended with some labour.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. iii. 379 They roll through the streets, with stern-sounding music,..pausing at set stations.
1888 Antiquary Jan. 16/2 At each of the stations appointed for the representations, arrangements were made for the spectators.
1919 H. F. Westlake Parish Gilds Mediæval Eng. v. 57 The stations were not always in the same place.
1972 R. Woolf Eng. Myst. Plays (1980) 362 It was an ancient custom that religious processions stopped at various stations on their route to sing a hymn or anthem.
1994 Theatrum Sept. 16/2 It's Mystery Play style, moving station to station.
b. A place at which a stop or temporary stay is made in the course of a journey; (formerly also) †a place where a person lives temporarily (obsolete). Now rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey
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1578 W. F. tr. J. Calvin Comm. Bk. Iosue x. f. 52 Gilgal was the first station from the passage of Iordan.
1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xiii. 13. 299 Here is set downe another of Paul's stations.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. xv. 349 Thinking with himselfe, what a deale of criminall matters he had brewed, in a certaine station [margin or baiting towne].
1694 R. Molesworth Acct. Denmark in 1692 xiii. 212 By the means of some trusty Servants, [he] had re-lays of Horses placed in convenient stations.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 500 My landlord, in another of my stations, has lived a very different life.
1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 10 He joyfully hailed the sight of two or three palm-trees, which arose beside the well which was assigned for his mid-day station.
1871 W. A. Whyte Land Journey Asia to Europe x. 303 Proceeding on through the night, stopping at various stations, we reached the town of Ka-insk.
1918 D. B. Macmillan Four Years in White North vii. 140 They would be fed at our next station, forty miles away.
21.
a. A regular stopping place on a road, having facilities for travellers to eat, sleep, refuel, etc.; spec. (chiefly U.S.) a place on a stagecoach route where a stop is made to change horses and for refreshment (now historical). Now chiefly: a service station or a petrol station.gas, petrol, service station, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > [noun] > travelling about > touring > at specific places (coaches, etc.)
station1722
waypoint1860
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. > resting-place on journey
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refreshment stop1880
pull-up1899
1722 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ IX. xxi. i. 198 There are Stations,..and Inns in the Publick Roads for weary Travellers to refresh themselves.
1764 J. Grieve tr. S. P. Krasheninnikov Hist. Kamtschatka iv. viii. 275 A verst before we came to the last [lake] is a station where generally the horses are changed.
1793 C. F. Greville Brit. India Analyzed I. 165 The Rahdarry is an inland toll collected at different Chowkies, or stations on the road.
1834 J. Hall Kentucky II. 3 Every here and there a station—a rude block-house, surrounded with palisades, afforded shelter to the traveller.
1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xxviii. 330 The ranches forty or fifty miles apart where passengers take meals, are termed ‘home stations’; those where the coach only stops to exchange teams, ‘swing stations’.
1915 House & Garden Feb. 102/2 There are a sufficient number of charging stations [for electric vehicles] along the route of the proposed Lincoln Highway.
1948 Westerners' Brand Bk. 21 A list of stations on the Butterfield Overland mail route.
1979 Amer. Motorcyclist Sept. 11/3 Why don't you just be quiet and help me find a station with leaded premium, okay?
2009 M. Sharma Product Managem. xv. 276 It is also opening stores in airport terminals, motorway stations and hospital sites.
b. Chiefly with modifying word: a temporary stopping place set up in order to provide food, water, etc., to participants in some arduous undertaking or event, now esp. a marathon. Cf. aid station n. (b) at aid n. Compounds 2.
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1903 Lloyd's Weekly News 14 June 1/1 A food station was erected, and poles were left as indicators for other explorers to assist them to penetrate further south.
1912 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 25 Aug. (Sporting section) 1/1 A doctor was put at each station to prevent the food from being drugged [during a marathon].
1960 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 Feb. a9/6 (caption) Russian skier Gennadiy Vaganov takes his brew on the run..at food station along the 30-kilometer cross country course.
1977 Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, N.Y.) 19 Apr. 11/3 I started out too fast..and then I missed a water station.
1991 Cycling Weekly 27 July 11/1 The small diagrams include distance, hills and their category, [and] details of feeding stations.
2006 Runner's World Aug. 70/2 If you see the water at the station and crave it..then you're truly thirsty and should have a drink.
22.
a. A place along a railway line where trains regularly stop to pick up and set down passengers or (less commonly) receive goods for transport; (also) the terminus of a railway line. Also: the buildings and platforms of such a place. Cf. halt n.1 b.goods, passenger, rail, railroad, railway, tube station, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station
station1830
station house1833
train depot1833
railway station1836
railroad station1837
depot1842
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1830 H. Booth Acct. Liverpool & Manch. Railway 46 This Railway will cost above £800,000 including the charge for stations and depots at each end.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. iii. 33 Milverton was driving me from the station through Durley Wood.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 234/2 Railway stations are either ‘terminal’ or ‘intermediate’. A terminal station embraces (1) the passenger station; (2) the goods station.
1926 Times 6 May 3/4 The following other long-distance trains will also run, calling at the principal stations.
1940 D. Powell Angels on Toast i. 15 Indiana slid past the window, towns popped up, announced their names with a placarded station.
1981 Daily Tel. 6 June 11/3 It will be sad..to see the rail-less cutting and the crumbling station.
2009 S. Faulks Week in December ii. 74 We could always arrange for you to have a ride with one of the drivers... To give you a sense of what it's like as the train comes into the station.
b. The starting place or terminus of a bus (originally an omnibus) or coach service; the building associated with this, typically having a waiting room, booking office, etc.bus, coach station, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > terminus for motor coaches
station1832
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > travel by bus > terminus for buses
station1832
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1832 H. Martineau Weal & Woe i. 14 If the station offers me a place in a buss.
1845 New Monthly Mag. June 161 The 'buss-men and fly-men from Slough station merely asked treble the usual fare.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. viii. 397 I was put down at the station, where omnibuses were in waiting.
1930 Crisis Mar. 88/2 A white couple..asked if they could get seats in the bus and was told by a white young man who seemed to be a porter at the station that they could be accommodated.
1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man 152 The bus rumbled out of the station, filled to capacity with us people of the third denomination.
2004 Mojo June 89/1 Alone and crying in a broken down bus in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day—things don't get much bleaker than that.
23. Physiology. A structure that relays impulses within the nervous system; esp. a ganglion. Cf. relay station n. at relay n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > parts of nerves > [noun] > ganglion
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lenticular ganglion1793
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Casserian (or Gasserian) ganglion1842
station1855
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1845 A. Clissold tr. E. Swedenborg Econ. Animal Kingdom I. vii. 454 It is from the ganglia principally, as from new stations, that the nerves, as they pass from the brains to the body, are derived into the praecordia, and into the parenchyma of the heart.]
1855 Brit. Controversialist 6 448/2 Now, all the apparatus that is necessary for the performance of these automatic functions is a central nerve station, or ganglion, as it is technically termed, with afferent and efferent nerves.
1860 A. C. Garratt Electro-physiol. & Electro-therapeutics 164 Bright arterial blood must flow throughout the whole from pole to pole, i. e., from the centre to the surface corpuscles, and so to the stations of ganglia and to the brain.
1880 H. C. Bastian Brain 23 They may be, in effect, junctions for in-going impressions or dividing stations for out-going impressions.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 808 Many of these nuclei are stations in long commissural fibre systems.
1936 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 117 338 Certain visual phenomena can be recorded not only from the eyeball.., but from other stations in the optic pathway such as the optic nerve.
1962 Jrnl. Psychosomatic Res. 6 120 Their data suggests a complex situation in which habituation may be semi-independent at each station in the auditory pathway.
2010 D. Purves Brains vii. 110 Individual visual neurons and their connections in the various stations of the visual pathway.
IV. Ecclesiastical uses deriving from sense 19. Chiefly Roman Catholic Church.
24. A visit to a holy place designated as a ‘station’ (sense 19). Also: a devotion performed at such a place, or at a Station of the Cross; cf. to perform (also make, etc.) the (or one's) stations at Phrases 2b.
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society > faith > worship > pilgrimage > [noun] > a pilgrimage
pilgrimagec1275
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?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 80 Prelates..techen men þat for staciones of rome..þei schullen haue þousandis of ȝeris of pardon.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke viii. i. 147 Gregory..named the pompous sacrifices stacions bycause thei wer celebrated on certain daies limited and prescribed by statute.
1678 W. Lloyd Serm. preached before King 31 (note) Pope Gregory instituted the Indulgences of Stations.
1733 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus Colloq. (ed. 2) 347 I have enough to do to travel my Roman Stations.
1815 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Demolit. Monastery Port Royal III. 283 When he had finished his stations, he returned to his beloved solitude.
1826 T. Coleman Indulgences Order Mt. Carmel 18 We give the name of Stations to the visits we pay the churches or other places appointed by the Popes to pray there.
1902 A. D. Vandam tr. B. Sastrow Social Germany in Luther's Time vi. 154 The annual number of stations or pilgrimages exceeds a hundred.
1974 J. A. O'Brien Faith of Millions (ed. 2) xxvii. 353 Say the stations as part of your preparation for confession.
2000 P. McCarthy McCarthy's Bar xv. 331 Done that station then. Agony, but great sense of achievement.
25.
a. A religious service; esp. a special service held at a holy place. Also (in the early church): an assembly of people for religious worship. Now rare.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > [noun]
station1447
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 9789 And eek at stacyouns wher sermons shuld be, She nold ben among þe statys hy, But among þe wummen of porest degre She alwey wold syttyn.
1554 tr. Doctr. Masse Bk. B vij b The halowing of the fyre on Easter Euen.  This wyse let there be a station vnto the fyre. Let the priest stand by the fyre,..and let ye deacon stand on his lefte hand, [etc.].
a1602 W. Perkins Godly & Learned Expos. Serm. in Mount (1608) 230 The primitiue Church in their assemblies called Stations, praied standing.
1716 W. Reeves Apol. Justin Martyr, Tertullian & Minucius Felix (ed. 2) 283 Considering that they stay'd at these Stations for nine Hours together,..'tis not improbable but the Interspaces were allowed for the Exercise of mental Devotion.
1847 W. Reeves Eccl. Antiq. 301 A holy well where the Roman Catholics of old held stations at midsummer.
1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 256/1 A sort of pious picnic—the excursion to a station at the Holy Well.
b. A service of prayer or celebration of the Mass led by the Pope at one of a number of churches in Rome, attended by all the clergy of the city. Also: a similar service celebrated elsewhere by the local bishop or abbot, at a number of parish or local churches in rotation. Chiefly historical in later use.Stations in Rome were originally held wherever and whenever the Pope ordained, but from around the 8th cent. a.d. came to be held in particular churches on certain fixed days of the liturgical year. The custom of celebrating stations in Rome during Lent and the Easter Octave was revived during the pontificate of Bl. John XXIII (1958–63).
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > [noun] > Roman
stationc1450
c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) iv. l. 144 The same day [sc. the feast of the circumcision] ther, the presteȝ all Solempynly make a stacion.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxliijv/1 The pope ordeyned a stacion in that chyrche [sc. saynt Marye Maior] euery yere on ester day.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lviijv/1 In the circumsicion of our lorde is stacions to saint mari transuberine.
1582 A. Munday Eng. Romayne Lyfe 39 When the Station hath beene at Saint Appolonias, all the way as we goe.
1610 R. Field Fifth Bk. of Church xxviii. 141 To such of these Churches as he pleased, the Bishop himselfe went and preached one day in one of them, and another in another,..which solemne assemblies & meetings were named stations.
1670 tr. Office Holy Week 562* This day the Station is celebrated at the Church of saint Iohn Lateran.
a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) IV. 277 The station was at St Mary Major's, and this procession and litany were made in the year 590.
1841 Christian Remembrancer Sept. 194 They..entered the papal choir, following the pope to the various stations where service was performed.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 256/2 Diaconus Stationarius, the deacon attending the pope when he went to any station.
1905 F. H. Dudden Gregory the Great I. ii. ii. 270 Another addition is evident in the station of January 1, given as ‘ad St. Mariam ad Martyres’, since this church..was not consecrated for Christian worship until the time of Pope Boniface IV.
1971 T. Bailey Processions of Sarum & Western Chant vi. 102 They served to conduct the local bishop or abbot..to stations in parish churches on certain feasts and Sundays.
2000 M. Augé in A. J. Chupungco Handbk. Liturg. Stud. viii. 197 The three [Christmas] Masses..are no longer celebrated at different stations.
26. Frequently with capital initial. A fast observed, chiefly by the early church, on Wednesdays and Fridays, typically lasting until 3 p.m. Also: a day on which such a fast is observed. Cf. station day n. 3, stationary adj. 5b. Chiefly (now only) historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > a fast > prescribed or appointed fast
fasting daya1387
fasta1400
station day1631
station1636
through-fast1652
1636 D. Calderwood Re-exam. Two Articles 30 Tertullian would reprove these that would break the station or fast.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. vii. 180 These fasts they called their stations—not because they stood all the while but by an allusion to the Military Stations and Keeping their Guards.
a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 451 She sacred Fasts and Stations strictly keeps.
a1773 A. Butler Moveable Feasts Catholic Church (1774) v. i. 197 They fasted..the Stations on Wednesdays and Fridays.
1827 E. Peach Series Familar Disc. I. 217 The stations..were observed as fasting days throughout the year.
1909 C. Bigg Origins Christianity xv. 191 They fasted commonly upon the ‘Stations’, that is to say, on all Wednesdays and Fridays.
2007 C. Sommer We look for Kingdom ii. 133 On these days, Christians observed what were known as ‘Stations’.
27. In Ireland: a visit of a parish priest to the house of a parishioner on a weekday, to say mass or to hear confessions.
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society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > visitation > instance of
visit1724
station1825
1825 Rep. Select Comm. State of Ireland 702 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 129) VIII. 1 He was preparing a dinner for the priest, who had ordered a station at his house.
1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. 145 The Stations for the following week will be held as follows:—On Monday, in Jack Gallagher's, [etc.].
1872 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 485/2 I'll hold a station at his house on Wednesday next.
1920 Lady Gregory Visions & Beliefs West of Ireland xiii. 288 Father Boyle..said he'd come and have stations at the house, and they should all be reconciled.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 788/5 Stations—the saying of Mass in private houses.
2004 M. Hickey Irish Days 32/2 She was painting the house and getting new carpet down in time for the station.

Phrases

P1. above one's station: see above adv., prep., n., and adj. Phrases 8.
P2. Christian Church (chiefly Roman Catholic Church).
†a. to go one's (also the) stations and variants: to visit a number of holy places in succession, performing a series of (prescribed) devotions. Obsolete (rare in later use).
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > perform stations [verb (intransitive)]
to go one's (also the) stationsa1438
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 95 (MED) Whan þis creatur wolde a gon þe Stacyownys, our Lord warnyd hir..þat sche xulde not gon owte fer fro hir ostel.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv v After dyner ful truely she wolde go her stacyons to thre aulters dayly.
?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. A.iv Yet haue I bene at Rome also And gone the stacions all arow.
1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 100 I will..giue them this counsell, to goe their Stations as soone as they come thither [sc. to Rome].
1647 H. Jones St. Patricks Purgatory 12 They doe finde such a refreshing and strength..that they doe finde themselves inabled to goe those stations againe.
1702 T. Marwood Diary in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1909) 7 119 Mond. 23 [Jan.]. In Classe the Esqr was a little Indisposed but Stayd it out, & held well all day after, but did not go for his Stations.
1844 Ladies' Compan. Oct. 287/2 Margaret O'Brian ‘went the stations’ at Gougane Barra.
b. to perform (also make, etc.) the (or one's) stations: to perform a series of (prescribed) devotions at a holy place or succession of holy places, spec. at the Stations of the Cross.In quot. c1450 using the language of Catholicism with reference to non-Christian rites.
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c1450 Siege Troy (Rawl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 280 (MED) Fayre Elyne..hering of þe commyng of Paris into þe temple, come..pryveli..Taking hir place on þe one side of the temple, where Paris..made his walke and stacions.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. iii. vii. 224 They performed their Stations.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 182 They made us perform the Stations at three Altars.
1759 tr. L. A. Muratori Relation Missions of Paraguay vii. 79 The solemn processions..when the stations of a Jubile are performed, are made to these chapels.
1780 A. Bruce Free Thoughts on Toleration Popery 137 The Pope..going..to the Church of St. Mary, where he celebrated mass, making the stations weeping.
1836 J. E. Tennant Let. 4 Oct. in Lett. to North (1837) xii. 97 The host of penitents who repair to do their stations on the Holy Isle.
1898 Amer. Eccl. Rev. Jan. 89 The crosses must..be ordinarily visible to those who perform the stations.
1917 Our Young People Mar. 4/1 These indulgences can be gained whether we perform the Stations privately and alone, or publicly and with others.
1954 G. B. Parks Eng. Traveler to Italy I. 245 They made their stations, they marveled devoutly and wept and prayed.
2006 C. Govers Performing Community vi. 216 The Way of the Cross was made..with a seminarian who performed the Stations.
P3.
a. Chiefly Nautical and Military.
(a) to keep one's station: to remain in place, to stay; to keep the position assigned to one.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > keep one's position
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to keep one's station1563
1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes iv. vi. f. 164 The Gothes..kepte their station in the hauen to prohibyte their arriuall.
1612 Witches Northampton-shire sig. B3v Belike the deuill stood there Centinell, kept his station well.
1631 T. Drue Life Dutches of Suffolke v. sig. G2 Well then Captaine, the other Ports being garded, Heere with this company weele keepe our station.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 98 They kept their Station for a while.
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah xxi. 8. 51 O my Lord, I keep my station all the day long; And on my ward have I continued every night.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. i. 2 In spite of the shock of her words, he still kept his station and retained her sister's hand. View more context for this quotation
1876 Harper's Mag. Dec. 126/2 George Manly, drenched by the icy flood,..kept his station behind the wheel-house.
1902 C. H. Firth Cromwell's Army iv. 96 The first rank discharged their muskets but kept their station after they had fired.
2005 D. L. Robbins Liberation Road 377 McGee kept his station under the hood, blowing tobacco smoke over the engine.
(b) to keep station: to remain in place or position; (Nautical and Aeronautics) to maintain position in a formation or moving squadron (cf. station-keeping n. and adj. (a) at Compounds 2).
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1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. iv. xi. 156 The Britaines..charged vpon those that kept station before the campe.
1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 611 Ezion Geber on the coast of the Red sea, where Solomon's Navy kept station, before they put saile towards Ophir.
1746 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 518/2 The line not being formed was due to Mr Lestock's behaviour, who did not give orders to his captains to keep station over night.
1831 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs II. xlv. 385 The detachments, which he meant to send out..to disperse themselves over the border counties; and there keep station.
1887 Nature 19 May 62/2 The reduction effected in angle of helm being quite sufficient to qualify the ship to steam at full speed in a squadron and keep station satisfactorily.
1939 War Illustr. 2 Dec. 372/3 The absolute necessity of maintaining the order in which their ships are placed in the convoy, i.e. to keep station.
1975 W. R. Stanton Great U.S. Exploring Exped. iv. 87 The commander..was annoyed by the failure of the schooners to keep station.
1993 Flyer July 48/1 The coarseness of the throttle movements to keep station.
b. to take (up) (one's) station: to take up a preferred or assigned position; to take one's place.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > take up position
to take (a tree) to stallc1275
pitch1535
range1582
suit1591
to take (up) (one's) station?1596
to fall in1627
to take ground1700
fix1710
to take one's (also a) perch1871
post1872
?1596 J. Dickenson Shepheardes Complaint sig. A4 A Fowler hauing espied the haplesse bird,..tooke his station and prepared the engines of his crueltie.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vii. 128 Riddling Oracles..seems of severall hues, as the looker on takes his station.
1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost Argt. sig. X5 The Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vii. lxxi. 93 Her doubtful Look, Where Paledness and Blushes mutually Their timorous and graceful stations took.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 32 They took their station under a balcony that overhung the lattice.
1804 Ld. Nelson Let. 17 Apr. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 501 Three French Privateers..have taken their Station off Tunis.
1841 W. Kennedy Texas (ed. 2) II. xii. 225 The artillery..took station within two hundred yards of the enemy's breastwork.
1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis II. xliv. 249 One of our companions took his station as sentinel upon the tomb of the little mosque.
1922 A. Thomas Print of my Remembrance xix. 355 A trooper..took his station on the opposite bank to guide our string.
1976 J. L. Mooney Dict. Amer. Naval Fighting Ships VI. 641/1 A week later, Stoddard departed the atoll to take up station off Okinawa.
1994 H. Mantel Change of Climate (2003) 194 They took up their station on the single bench outside.
c. Nautical. on station: (of a vessel) in the place or region assigned to it (cf. sense 2c). Also more widely: stationed at a particular place; on duty.
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1754 tr. L. J. Plumard de Dangeul Remarks France & Great-Brit. 84 Our guard vessels, on station, should at the same time redouble their vigilance.
1763 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 54/2 A captain of a ship on station there, insisted on pressing the man.
1837 Southern Lit. Jrnl. Jan. 348 He..beheld Colonel Proctor and a Captain Dickson, both on station at the garrison.
1861 J. Whiting N.Y. Shippers' Consignees' Guide 107 When on station the boat shall have a conspicuous signal at the mast-head.
1922 Hist. Med. & Surg. (Chicago Med. Soc.) 145 The records indicate that Dr. McMahon was on station in New Orleans in 1825.
1949 T. Roscoe U.S. Submarine Operations World War II xvi. 193/2 Now, on station off Toagel Mlungui—after the successful accomplishment of a mission.
1996 Washington Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. e1 Son-in-law Greg..is on station in the kitchen—part chef and part replenisher of the hot-vegetable bar.
P4. station-to-station: attributive of or relating to travel between railway stations; spec. designating a rate of payment for goods transport exclusive of all services (such as unloading, storage, etc.) except conveyance from station to station.
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1857 Goods Managers' Minutes 3 Sept. in Regulations Railway Clearing House (1861) 97 When several consignments of Station to Station traffic..weigh collectively more than a ton, [etc.].
1862 Sc. Law Mag. & Sheriff Court Reporter 1 99 Certain castings were sent from Montrose to Kirriemuir, at what was called the ‘station-to-station’ rate.
1903 Daily Chron. 18 Dec. 6/3 They were asking Parliament to abolish some of the low station-to-station rates.
2000 Improving Public Transportation Access to Large Airports (Leigh Fisher Associates) vi. 109 (caption) Map-based graphics are used to give the traveler station-to-station trip planning.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive and objective (in sense 22), as station attendant, station cleaner, station clock, station entrance, station toilet, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1852 Leicester Chron. 28 Aug. Just before the arrival of the train, to her great surprise, the station attendant locked the waiting room door.
1880 Birmingham Daily Post 30 Sept. 5/7 The train left Liverpool at the right time by the station clock, and the first stoppage was at Warrington.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms,..just opposite.
1936 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 24 July 1/7 Thousands crowded the station entrance and along the route to City hall.
1972 Economist 15 July 60/1 The train needs an enormous back-up staff of ticket collectors and purveyors, station cleaners, signal operators and so on.
1989 D. C. Hunt Lithographs C. B. Wilson 6/2 A more comfortable place than the station waiting room in which to pass the time while waiting for a bus.
2010 M. Kermode It's only Movie v. 203 The station toilet was closed ‘for cleaning’, naturally.
b. General attributive, objective, locative, etc.
(a) (In various senses.)
station boss n.
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1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iv. 45 The station-boss stopped dead still, and glared at me speechless.
1907 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 810/2 ‘Good luck!’ shouted the station boss... The Merlin clanked..over the complexity of points.
1984 B. Dixon Searching for Aboriginal Lang. 122 A brawny female station boss mixing her beers..with those of the stockmen.
2008 E. J. Bailey Black Amer., Body Beautiful vi. 68 In her first major television job..the station bosses wanted her to change her hair.
station building n.
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1839 Times 14 Mar. 2/5 The erection of station buildings, depots, and engines.
1897 Exper. Station Rec. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 8 537 Plans and description of the new station building.
1911 Pop. Mech. Nov. 623/1 A runaway freight engine..had plowed its way half through the station building.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. i. 8 When an old fashioned squatter..used the word ‘homestead’ he used it to signify the owner's residence as opposed to the men's quarters and other station buildings.
1953 Billboard 18 Apr. 4/4 Progress is reported in construction of a station building and broadcasting facilities.
2007 Continental Modeller Aug. 488/1 Just above the gable end of the station building can be seen among the trees the arch of the road overbridge.
station chief n.
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1889 Rep. Consuls U.S. (Dept. of State, Bureau of Statistics) 116 The station chiefs get from about one thousand down to a few hundred dollars.
1921 Living Age 4 June 568 The schoolmaster..summoned the station chief.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon x. 144 The message the station chief downloaded was just gibberish to him.
station director n.
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1817 J. Macdonald Treat. Explanatory New Syst. Telegr. Communication 61 The next Station-Director would act similarly.
1889 First Rep. Secr. Agric. (U.S.) 492 One of the best known of the station directors makes a strong plea for such an index.
1923 J. Reith Diary 25 Oct. (1975) ii. 132 Very busy on new regulations for SB... I am leaving it more to the station directors.
2010 T. Husing Radio Master xi. 80 He was hired with the title of Station Director.
station door n.
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1841 Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian 7 Aug. The Station Doors closed Five Minutes before the Time of Starting.
1867 Executive Documents House of Representatives 144 Witness did not tell the police about it till after reading the placard of a reward outside the station door.
1927 Boys' Life Jan. 13/1 Bremer strode straight from the station door to the smoker of the westbound local.
2011 Fire Service Pump Operator (Internat. Assoc. Fire Chiefs) vii. 180/1 Make sure the station doors are fully open.
station keeper n. now chiefly historical
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1836 John Bull 25 Jan. 29/3 Thomas Irwin, station-keeper.., had returned into the house.
c1856 F. Gerstaecker Life in Bush 3 Among the guests was a station-keeper from Kangaroo Island.
1910 Statistics Cities having Population over 30,000 (U.S. Bureau Census) 99/2 A grand total of 3,071 regular police department employees,..including 528 working as station keepers, doormen, and turnkeys.
2010 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 13 June The Pony Express system also included..station keepers, stock tenders and route superintendents.
station manager n.
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1844 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 14 Sept. 2/3 One of our own party went to the station manager.
1881 Mission Field Jan. 33 The Clergyman..and the station-manager (if not all white men employed on the Mission) should be married.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xvii. 167 One station manager told us that he had found scores of them [sc. rabbits] dead around their burrows.
1965 Guardian 11 Feb. 16/4 Stationmasters in the London-Midland region of British Rail..would be replaced by station managers.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 181 The show's ‘striking juxtaposition of..urbanity and provincialism’ made it difficult to market to conservative station managers.
station operation n.
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1910 S. W. Ashe Electricity 291 The air-cooled transformers are used in station operation.
1977 D. L. Altheide in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. iv. 142 The relation of the news to the overall station operation, including sales, production, and programming.
2010 J. E. O'Rourke Jersey Troopers 53 Station commanders are the equivalent of a modern-day police chief, as they run the station operation.
station property n.
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1851 C. Stewart Let. 3 Dec. in Rep. Proc. Dept. Railways 1852 (1853) 7 The engines then standing upon the line of the Stour Valley Railway (and beyond the boundary of the joint station property).
1890 ‘Lyth’ Golden South 96 We invested..in a large station property.
1963 Billboard 24 Aug. 12/4 His acquisition of a station property will mark his return to broadcasting.
2005 Guardian Messenger (Adelaide) (Nexis) 24 Aug. (Letters section) 21 We are seeking the public's help to find photographs of any of the old station properties in this region.
(b) (In sense 22.)
station announcer n.
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1873 Anglo-Amer. Times 23 Aug. 21/1 Station Announcer.—a box overhead..in which is contained the name of the next station.
1964 ‘J. H. Roberts’ Q Document (1965) ii. 54 The blaring voice of the station announcer calling the trains.
1996 Independent 18 Sept. 6/6 You hear the station announcer call out the towns and villages of your life.
station buffet n.
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1856 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 271/1 The station buffets supply you with all sorts of odd breakfasts.
1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night ii. viii. 194 He..took a small beer on the terrace of the station buffet.
1998 A. Warner Sopranos 313 The station buffet was empty after the train went.
station clerk n.
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1839 Blackburn Standard 4 Sept. 1/3 The station clerks..supplied her with a ticket to Liverpool.
1929 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 19 Feb. 9/2 He began his railway service as a station clerk.
2011 Mirror (Nexis) 24 Feb. 37 Nearly two-thirds of station clerks..got it wrong when asked for the cheapest fare.
station foreman n.
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1864 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 6 Aug. 8/6 Mr David Smith, station foreman.
1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 95/3 Station foreman Mrs Barbara Brown's colourful display..won her a framed certificate and £120.
station hotel n.
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1838 Standard 15 Sept. She took a situation in the Station Hotel.]
1850 Patriot 29 Aug. 547/2 An elegant déjeuner provided for them at the station hotel.
1933 C. Day Lewis Magn. Mountain 12 Book your bed-sitter at the station hotel.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. vii. 9/4 10 rich, not very intelligent people..hole up in a station hotel to bicker and flirt.
station platform n.
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1841 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 5 June 5/5 The whole safely landed on the Sheffield station platform.
1915 R. H. Davis Somewhere in France 16 On the station platforms, at the windows of the trains that passed..she had seen only the gray-green uniforms.
1994 P. Hobbs & M. Algar Free to Trav. iv. 14 How can you tackle all those steps to the station platform?
station porter n.
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1841 Lancaster Gaz. 13 Nov. One of the station porters accidentally happened to hear his moaning.
1925 Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 4 411 Services of station porters are not recognized as a part of the service to which the purchase of a railroad ticket entitles the passenger.
2005 T. Brosnahan Turkey vi. 68 The station porters and the ferry porters were different groups, and one would not do the work of the other.
station yard n.
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1834 Liverpool Mercury 3 Jan. 6/1 The gallant porter had the impudence to demand the exorbitant sum of one shilling for..carrying a small box and a trunk from the station yard to a car which was standing in Crown-street.
1923 G. W. Bullett Street of Eye ii. i. 218 Where's your trunk? I've got the trap in the station-yard.
1994 A. Taylor Air that Kills i. i. 7 Philip steered her through the ticket hall into the station yard.
(c) (In sense 8.)
station-bred adj.
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1870 J. R. Graham Treat. Austral. Merino iv. 31 They bore a different ear-mark from that borne by the station-bred sheep.
1964 W. A. Anderson Doctor in Mountains (1974) 33 I bought for eight pounds one of the station-bred hacks.
2005 D. Francis Great Inland Sea 165 A big lump of a station-bred horse.
station holder n.
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1858 Sydney Mag. Sci. & Art 1 25/1 Tallow..should receive more attention from the station-holder.
1937 N. Marsh Vintage Murder 38 [He] was a station-holder twenty miles out in the country.
2010 M. Pearson & J. Lennon Pastoral Austral. 52 Rations were bought from the station holder at an agreed rate.
station horse n.
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1865 All Year Round 10 June 477/2 I used to envy the old station horse.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling vii. 75 Leagues away even from the homestead cows or the station horses.
2010 M. Way Outback Bachelor 91 The station horses..were out of harm's way.
station owner n.
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1846 United Service Mag. Aug. 501 Wealth will in process of time, accrue to the station-owners.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iii. 69 A station-owner's life, even in these days, is not all beer and skittles.
2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland iii. 85 Working on a sheep or cattle station with a view to acquiring the practical experience and management skills desirable in a station owner or manager.
station stock n.
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1873 Australasian Sketcher 6 Sept. 111/1 Rabbits..threaten to ultimately starve out every description of farm and station stock.
1903 Bull. (Sydney) 17 Sept. 16/2 Your station stock are often on my country!
2008 G. Blinco Mysterious Swagman 288 The mutton came from the station stock.
C2.
station agent n. (a) chiefly U.S. a person in charge of a railway or (formerly) stagecoach station; (b) a person who works for (a particular branch of) an intelligence service (cf. sense 5i).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > in charge of station
stationmaster1836
station agent1840
station-mistress1863
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > public transport employees > specific stagecoach employees
stage-coachman1756
guard1788
mayoral1834
station agent1840
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent
secret agenta1715
operative1901
operator1966
station agent1974
1840 P. P. F. Degrand Addr. Advantages Low Fares 11 He promptly presents his ticket to the station agent.
1879 E. J. Simmons Mem. Station Master (1974) ix. 131 The Long and Narrow Railway paid their station-agent better than the Great Smash Company.
1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl xv. 203 He stopped at the stage station... The station agent looked to see what the man had written.
1974 J. Grady Six Days of Condor 109 Who do you suppose was station agent out of Taiwan?
2003 R. Milne & M. Backhausen Opportunities in Trav. Careers iii. 63 Station agents usually are promoted from the ranks of railroad clerks, telegraphers, telephoners, and tower operators.
2010 M. Mayben Avenging Storm 72 Morrissey was a station agent assigned to Berlin.
station bill n. Nautical an official list of the duties and posts assigned to the members of a ship's crew.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > furnishing with crew > crew lists
portledge bill1668
portage bill1743
station bill1800
fire bill1804
watch-bill1813
1800 D. L'Escalier Vocab. Termes Marine 164 Station-bill, rôle des postes.
1801 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1939) I. 488 Exercised the crew by the station bills to reef, furl & manouvre ship.
1933 Mariner's Mirror 19 89 In the 'eighties the official station bills were issued in two sizes.
2008 C. Wing & J. Austin Get your Captain's License (ed. 4) 442/1 The station bill is the Master's responsibility.
station break n. U.S. Broadcasting a break (break n.1 8k) between radio or television items or programmes, during which the station identifies or advertises itself.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > break between programmes or signal
station break1931
interval signal1932
break1941
programme junction1941
1931 F. Baldwin Skyscraper xix. 288 The station breaks came at the fifteen-minute intervals.
1998 R. MacNeill Breaking News lii. 276 Ann Murrow's exclusive was heavily promoted during the ten o'clock station break.
2005 D. E. Post Patriotic Nightmare xi. 138 We'll be back after this station break with more coverage of the day's events.
station chapel n. (a) a chapel constituting one of a number of stations at which pilgrims worship (cf. sense 19a); (b) a chapel attached to a station (in various senses).
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1840 J. Pardoe City of Magyar I. xv. 208 In each of the station-chapels, the groups..bore reference rather to the sufferings of Mary than to those of our Lord.
1881 W. F. Bainbridge Around World Tour Christian Missions (ed. 3) xx. 353 Another station chapel had its timbers and floors..eaten by the white ants.
1969 G. C. Zahn Chaplains in R.A.F. iii. 86 One man..had a record of restoring or building a number of station chapels.
2003 R. C. Trexler Reliving Golgotha 233 Any list of preserved station chapels would certainly include the impressive ones stretching along the main street of Acambaro.
station commander n. a person in charge of a military or police station.
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1863 Congress. Globe 9 Jan. 263/1 Citizens have been..driven away by military force, under decrees of banishment made by some post or station commander.
1972 Police Rev. 1 Dec. 1569/2 Why should not the station commander himself take action?
2001 R. Joshi Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) 222 She notices the station commander standing next to their table and she leaps up to salute.
station distance n. Surveying the distance between successive stations (sense 6a).
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance between surveying stations
station distance1757
1757 J. Gray Art Land-measuring Explained i. 49 At the first station, take the angles made by the station distance and right lines from it to the inaccessible ends.
1906 J. B. Davis Leveling & Earthwork 50 Should either one, or both, of these grade vertices be at a plus station, reckon the plus in decimals of a station distance.
2004 P. H. Wright & K. Dixon Highway Engin. (ed. 7) vii. 210 Offsets for curb, sidewalk, and right-of-way locations..and station distance and perpendicular offsets are but few of the commonly utilized features.
station finder n. †(a) Nautical = station pointer n. (obsolete); (b) a device or control used to select a particular station on a radio receiver.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > for finding observer's position
station pointer1774
station finder1853
pointer1875
1853 W. Yolland in Elem. Course Math. for Royal Mil. Acad. III. ii. 434 For the execution of maritime surveys..its site is generally made out by the aid of an instrument termed a ‘Station Finder’.
1883 W. H. Richards Textbk. Mil. Topogr. 113 The problem is seldom used except for finding a ship's place with regard to points on the coast, which are shown on the chart; an instrument called a ‘station finder’ is generally used for the purpose.
1932 News Chron. 23 Sept. 7/4 A novel wireless calibrator, called the Easy Station Finder..enables owners of non-calibrated tuning arrangements to tune-in to any desired station with accuracy.
2011 C. Nand Returned to Devil's Island ii. 40 I twiddled the station finder and opted for the BBC World Service.
station hack n. Australian and New Zealand a horse used for general work on a station (sense 8).
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1876 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xi, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 9 Sept. 422/4 The ordinary station-hacks.
1964 W. A. Anderson Doctor in Mountains (1974) 33 I taught him to be..easily caught, a tremendous asset in a station hack.
2006 Timaru Herald (Nexis) 21 Feb. 1 Tiny is half draught horse and half station hack.
station hand n. a person who works at a station (in various senses); (Australian and New Zealand) a person employed to do general work on a stock station (see sense 8).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker
stockman1806
ranchero1825
ranchman1854
bush-hand1863
station hand1863
jackeroo1864
boundary-rider1865
bush-rider1883
ringer1909
bush-worker1936
stock-boy1937
jillaroo1945
1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settlem. vi. 75 The station-hands cannot look down upon him, as they do upon the other [non-paying] cadet.
1931 M. Mauron Mount Peacock 76 He asks the stoker, who consults the station-hand—all their watches are in lamentable disagreement.
1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) vii. 123 Fifty years ago Lookout Station had been self-supporting with its own school, blacksmith and over thirty station hands.
station head n. a person in charge of a station (in various senses); spec. the chief of an intelligence service headquarters.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > headquarters of an intelligence service > chief of
station head1974
1885 Labor in Europe (U.S. Consular Rep.) 219 (table) Class of Employment... Station Inspector... Station Heads.
1945 Billboard 27 Jan. 5/4 Unless stations get ‘fair’ treatment, station heads..will publish their own radio newspaper.
1974 J. Grady Six Days of Condor 108 He worked his way..from special field agent to station head.
2008 S. Rimington Dead Line 258 Block was the Mossad station head in London.
station hospital n. a hospital attached to a military station.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > military or field hospital
field station1610
field hospital1690
military hospital1747
general hospital1775
ambulance1800
station hospital1827
base hospital1864
clearing-hospital1914
clearing-station1915
MASH1950
1827 Oriental Herald June 648 Barber..to have charge of Station Hospital at Barrackpore.
1901 Empire Rev. 1 435 The details of management of station hospitals.
2004 H. Somers Subway Ride to Pacific xxxv. 211 You have malaria, Sergeant... I'm getting an ambulance to take you to the station hospital.
station indicator n. a device on board a train which automatically shows which station the train is approaching or has reached.
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1852 Leeds Mercury 10 Jan. 6/6 Mr. Whitworth's patent has no station indicator.
1938 Pop. Mech. Dec. 881/2 A novelty in the tavern car is a station indicator.
2007 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9 May Onboard station indicators are a rarity.
station-Jack n. Australian (now historical) a simple pudding of meat boiled in a flour-and-water dough, associated with the Australian outback.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage
franchemyle1381
herbelade?c1390
haggisc1400
black puddinga1450
blood puddingc1450
bloodinga1500
liveringa1500
haggis pudding1545
white pudding1578
swine's pudding1579
hog's pudding1583
Bolognian sausage1596
bloodling1598
andouille1605
andouillet1611
cervelat1613
mortadella1613
polony1654
blacking1674
hacking1674
whiting1674
Oxford sausagec1700
saucisson1772
German sausage1773
saveloy1784
blood sausage1799
white hawse1819
liver sausage1820
black pot1825
chipolata1830
Bologna sausage1833
butifarra1836
mettwurst1836
Cambridge sausage1840
boudin1845
chorizo1846
German1847
liverwurst1852
salami1852
station-Jack1853
leberwurst1855
wurst1855
blutwurst1856
bag of mystery1864
Vienna sausage1865
summer sausage1874
wienerwurst1875
mealy pudding1880
whitepot1880
wiener1880
erbswurst1885
pepperoni1888
mystery bag1889
red-hot1890
weenie1891
hot dog1892
frankfurter1894
sav?1894
Coney Island1895
coney1902
garlic sausage1905
boloney1907
kishke1907
drisheen1910
bratwurst1911
banger1919
cocktail sausage1927
boerewors1930
soy sausage1933
thuringer1933
frank1936
fish sausage1937
knackwurst1939
foot-long1941
starver1941
soya sausage1943
soysage1943
soya link1944
brat1949
Vienna1952
kielbasa1953
Coney dog1954
tube steak1963
Weisswurst1963
Cumberland sausage1966
merguez1966
tripe sausage1966
schinkenwurst1967
boerie1981
'nduja1996
1853 Emigrant's Guide Austral. 112 Take..the flour and work it into a paste; then put the beef into it, boil it, and you will have a very nice pudding, known in the bush as ‘Station-jack’.
1860 M. Lemon Christmas Hamper i. 58 The remains of a pudding, known as ‘Station Jack’,..and about half-a-pint of whisky, soon disappeared before the hungry stranger.
1991 Alasian Post 12 Oct. 39/2 The best cut was..boiled up with flour to make station-Jack.
station-keeping n. and adj. Nautical, Aeronautics, and Astronautics (a) n. the maintenance of the proper relative position of ships, planes, etc., in a particular formation or moving squadron; (now also) the maintenance of the orbit of a satellite; (b) adj. that keeps its relative position or orbit; (also) that ensures a proper relative position is maintained.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing in company > maintenance of proper position
station-keeping1871
1871 Times 31 July 8/1 The care with which I generally carry out my duties, more especially as regards station-keeping.
1908 W. Henderson Seamanship xvii. 420 In Quarter Line or on a Line of Bearing, station-keeping is a more troublesome operation than in line ahead.
1942 Life 14 Sept. 38/2 Our planes were in excellent formation... Station keeping was good.
1962 New Sci. 5 Apr. 799/2 The scheme..envisages 12 station-keeping active-relay satellites.
1993 B. Pattan Satellite Syst. iii. 54 To make corrections in NS and EW station-keeping, satellite on-board thrusters are used.
2005 M. J. L. Turner Rocket & Spacecraft Propulsion (ed. 2) vi. 190 It seems likely that the Hall thruster and ion engine will be the station-keeping device of choice for current and future communication satellites.
station line n. (a) Surveying a straight line from one station (sense 6a) to the next (now rare); †(b) Perspective a vertical line through the point of sight (obsolete); (c) Shipbuilding a vertical line through a station (sense 6b); also in extended use.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > a survey line
station line1658
survey line1889
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > planes, lines, or points
horizontal plane1638
eye-pointa1650
table1670
principal point1671
plan1678
geometrical plane1695
terrestrial line1704
vertical plane1704
baseline1724
station line1724
middle ground1753
picture plane1771
middle distance1778
primitive plane1798
seat1815
mid-distance1828
ground-plane1833
station point1859
mid-ground1864
no-sky line1927
1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour iii. 21 Here you see in this plot, the station-lines, being pricked lines, are not drawn parallel to the hedges, or out-sides of the ground.
1724 E. Stone tr. W. J. 's Gravesande Ess. Perspective v. 69 This last Line..will be parallel to the Station Line; and consequently, its Representation will pass thro' the Point of Sight.
c1791 Encycl. Brit. VII. 679/1 The distances taken by the off-set staff, on either side of the station-line, are to be entered into columns on either side of the middle column.
1859 J. Ruskin Elements Perspective Introd. 9 From S let fall a perpendicular line SR, to the bottom of the paper, and call this line the Station-line. This represents the line on which the observer stands at a greater or less distance from the picture.
1872 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Civil Engin. (ed. 8) i. i. 17 The points where station-lines cross fences are marked by notches upon timber and grooves upon stone.
1904 Brick 21 110/2 These perpendicular lines are spaced off in tens. These lines are the station lines, and..the stations are numbered from 0 up and set out on the margin.
1913 H. Adams Pract. Surv. & Elem. Geodesy App. 251 Show by a sketch how you would continue a station line past an obstacle, such as a tree.
1920 Pacific Motor Boat Dec. 33/1 Select a place in the shop which will give you plenty of room on either side of the boat, strike a center line and erect the station lines.
2007 B. King Ship Modelling Solutions xl. 156/1 The critical areas in this work are the plan profiles at bow and stern particularly if the station lines are not close together.
stationman n. a person employed on or at a station (in various senses), esp. (a) a person employed on the railways, esp. the London Underground, as a platform attendant, porter, etc. (now rare); (b) Australian and New Zealand a person employed on a stock station, a station hand.
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1845 Times 16 Sept. 7/3 The station-man is also employed as a signal-man.
1872 J. H. Kerr Glimpses Life in Victoria xiii. 175 The station-men..slunk away to their sleeping apartment.
1916 Santa Fe Mag. Sept. 62/2 Stationmen should be particularly watchful and if a ‘bo’ is seen stealing a ride on a train..tell the train crew.
1943 Billboard 25 Sept. 8/1 What makes the situation particularly tasty, to stationmen, is that the boom has practically exhausted the availability of spot announcements.
1963 Times 24 May (London Underground Centenary Suppl.) p. vii/4 Passengers refused to leave trains at the haughty ordering of stationmen.
2003 S. Elderkin Voices 128 What a load of softies the stationmen are!
station meter n. a meter for measuring the amount of gas leaving a gas works or site where gas is produced.
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1834 Derby Mercury 19 Nov. 2/3 By the purchase of two meters and the payment for a badge on a station meter in 1820, he was led to suppose the company had determined not to use any other than the patent meter.
1920 Amer. Gas & Engin. Jrnl. 11 Sept. 200/1 The inlet and outlet valves to the washer, station meter, storage holder and governor were closed and the by-pass valves opened.
2011 Code of Federal Regulations: 18: Conservation Power & Water Resources (Office of Federal Register, U.S.) 694/2 Works station meters, including gauges, piping and accessories.
station point n. †(a) Surveying a station (sense 6a); the point on a plan or map corresponding to a station; (obsolete); (b) Perspective the point corresponding to the viewer's eye.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > point where observations taken > corresponding point on a plan
station point1694
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > planes, lines, or points
horizontal plane1638
eye-pointa1650
table1670
principal point1671
plan1678
geometrical plane1695
terrestrial line1704
vertical plane1704
baseline1724
station line1724
middle ground1753
picture plane1771
middle distance1778
primitive plane1798
seat1815
mid-distance1828
ground-plane1833
station point1859
mid-ground1864
no-sky line1927
1694 W. Leybourn Pleasure with Profit ii. iv. 51 Setting one foot of the Compasses in N, with the other foot describe the obscure Arch v v, crossing the former in the station point ⊙ by M.
1859 J. Ruskin Elements Perspective Introd. 10 On this line [sc. the Station-line] mark the distance ST, at your pleasure, for the distance at which you wish your picture to be seen, and call the point T the Station-point.
1880 L. d'A. Jackson Aid Surv.-pract. 96 Some recorders use alphabetical letters to designate station-points.
2005 A. Jeffries & D. A. Madsen Archit. Drafting & Design (ed. 5) xl. 792/1 Project lines from each corner of the roof down to the station point.
station pointer n. Nautical an instrument for locating the position of the observer on a map or chart by measuring the two angular separations of three objects of known positions.A station pointer typically consists of a circular scale marked in degrees at the centre of which are pivoted three arms, one fixed and two adjustable. The two adjustable arms are set to the two measured angles, and then placed on a map with the three arms passing over the three objects; the centre is then the observer's position on the map.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > for finding observer's position
station pointer1774
station finder1853
pointer1875
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 24 Such an Instrument as this may be called a Station-pointer.
1858 W. D. Haskoll Pract. Engin. Field Work xiii. 189 In the absence of a station pointer, we may lay down the two angles on a piece of tracing paper, and produce the lines to a sufficient length.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 97/2 The ‘station-pointer’ is the instrument used in plotting fixes.
2008 M. S. Monmonier Coast Lines vi. 71 An appropriate projection lets the navigator read distances and bearings directly from the chart as well as fix a vessel's position with a sextant and station pointer.
station pole n. Surveying a pole or rod set up at a station (sense 6a).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > staff or pole > for taking off-sets
station staff1653
cross1669
station pole1775
offset staffc1791
station rod1791
cross-staff1874
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 513 Who also took..the horizontal angle contained between the plane of the section poles and the next station pole to the right or left.
1880 L. d'A. Jackson Aid Surv.-pract. 112 The station poles used as survey marks.
1991 J. Clancy Site Surv. & Levelling (ed. 2) ii. 38 Standing some distance behind the station pole, the surveyor directs his assistant into line and to insert the necessary number of ranging poles to form the line from the distant station.
station rod n. Surveying (now rare) = station staff n. (a).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > staff or pole > for taking off-sets
station staff1653
cross1669
station pole1775
offset staffc1791
station rod1791
cross-staff1874
1791 G. Adams Geom. & Graphical Ess. 297 Remove the station rod b to c, and place the circumferenter exactly over the hole where the rod b was placed, measuring the station lines, and the offsets from them to the boundaries.
1835 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 6 329 The graduated station rods or staffs..placed perpendicularly.., the glass vessel at the lower station must be slidden up its rod [etc.].
1910 Mines & Minerals 10 Aug. 23 Sighting on the station rod, the base plate is leveled by adjusting the locknuts.
1936 F. Debenham Map Making iv. 50 The first operation is to divide up the area into triangles, setting up marks or station rods.
station sergeant n. chiefly British the sergeant in charge of a police station.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > policeman of specific rank
superintendent1789
police inspector1824
police sergeant1824
sergeant1839
inspector1840
station sergeant1846
detective-sergeant1850
detective-inspector1898
desk sergeant1908
sarge1926
skipper1929
supe1977
1846 Times 16 Oct. 4/3 According to the testimony of..the station sergeant, two other sergeants, and three policemen, the prisoner was then intoxicated.
1907 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 140 203/2 House allowance of station sergeant at Wellington increased to £50.
2005 M. Robotham Suspect (2006) xv. 115 The youths were given a stern talking-to by the station sergeant.
station ship n. now historical (chiefly U.S. Navy in later use) a ship assigned to a particular station (sense 2c), acting as a patrol vessel, or providing troops, refuelling or repair facilities, etc., as required.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > look-out or reconnaissance vessel
spy-boat1637
guard-ship1689
station ship1693
scout-ship1694
guard-boat1696
scout1706
lookout1761
lookout ship1762
watch-boat1789
patrol boat1854
spy-ship1858
picket boat1861
picket launch1864
scout vessel1869
vedette boat1884
picket ship1898
coastal1912
P boat1917
spotter1931
radar picket1945
1693 R. Temple Ess. Taxes 25 The..want of Station-Ships and Cruizers to clear the Channel from Privateers.
1758 Mem. Princ. Trans. Last War 20 Being favoured therein by the casual Absence of the Canso Station Ship, omitted to be sent that Year, as was likewise the usual Station Ship to Boston.
1899 Technic 12 6 This ship was selected..for prolonged service as the station ship at Guam.
1954 J. C. Fahey Ships & Aircraft U.S. Fleet 7 She is ‘in service’ at Annapolis where she replaced the old Cumberland as a station ship.
2008 J. K. Herman Navy Med. in Vietnam i. 15 A small staff headed by a commander stayed aboard the station ship.
station staff n. †(a) Surveying a staff for use in measuring distances or heights; a ranging rod or levelling staff (cf. staff n.1 7e) (obsolete); (b) staff employed or deployed at a station, esp. a railway station or (formerly) †a military station (cf. staff n.1 20, 21).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > staff or pole > for taking off-sets
station staff1653
cross1669
station pole1775
offset staffc1791
station rod1791
cross-staff1874
1653 W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor iv. liii. 276 Looking through the sights, cause your first assistant to move a leafe of paper up and down your station staffe.
1708 Brit. Apollo 28 May–2 June 2 Station-Staves, with Moveable Vanes.
1838 Calcutta Monthly Jrnl. Dec. Gen. Reg. 205/2 The Kurnaul station order..directing Lieutenant W. H. Lomer..to act as station staff.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 359/2 Direct the object-end of the telescope successively to the station-staves held up on the different pickets.
1851 R. M. Laffan Railway Accident (Falmer Station) 24 The management of the carrying department interferes much with the ordinary duties of the regular station staff.
1855 Allen's Indian Mail 2 Jan. 4/1 Lieutenant R. Stewart, the adjutant, is also removed from the station staff.
1876 Eng. Mech. 18 Feb. 591/3 Make sure that the stations are so selected that he can always observe the bottom part of the iron shoe of the station staves.
1903 Times 12 Aug. 3/2 Meanwhile, the station staff were advising the passengers to leave the carriages.
2000 Independent 18 Oct. i. 2/7 Relatives awaiting passengers from the 12.10 were asked to ‘make themselves known’ to station staff.
station stop n. (a) a halt or stop that takes place at a station, as opposed to elsewhere on a railway line; (b) originally U.S. a stopping-place that is a station (in this sense sometimes regarded as tautologous).
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1874 Times 11 Apr. 12/3 The first two experiments were ordinary station stops, the steam being shut off and the air-brake applied by the driver.
1893 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 26 Nov. Had Hartford not been a station stop and No. 20 consequently having gained..headway before the accident occurred the consequences would have been appalling.
1904 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 16 June 10/1 The special train..was yesterday handled over the Vandalia from St. Louis to Indianapolis without making a single station stop.
1935 Times 8 July 11/2 It will run non-stop to Truro (279 miles).., except Saturdays, when the down train will make St. Erth (299½ miles) its first station stop.
1998 M. Chateauvert Marching Together i. 25 Before the union, porters bought their own food during station stops, if they could find a store..willing to serve them.
2005 Independent on Sunday 2 Oct. 25/6 I particularly hate..the announcement that ‘the train will soon arrive at the next station stop’. What on earth is the point of stations if not for stopping in?
station time n. Christian Church †(a) the period of the year during which stations (sense 25b) are held in Rome (obsolete); (b) the period of the year during which the traditional three-day pilgrimages are made at St Patrick's Purgatory in Ireland (cf. sense 24) (now rare).
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > [noun] > time of
station timea1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 77 Þere þe pope syngeþ þe masse þre Sondayes in þe ȝere in þe stacioun tyme.
1827 C. Otway Sketches in Ireland 152 The station time was over about a month.
1908 Rosary Mag. June 662/1 The season for making the pilgrimage is from June 1st to August 15th... Sightseers are not allowed to land on the island during the station time.
† station vigil n. Obsolete rare a vigil (vigil n.1 1b) kept on the eve of a station day (station day n. 3).
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1898 A. M. Y. Baylay tr. P. H. Batiffol Hist. Rom. Breviary i. 14 Sunday vigils, station vigils, vigils in cemeteries, each comprising a triple office.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

stationv.

Brit. /ˈsteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃən/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: station n.
Etymology: < station n. Compare post-classical Latin stationari to stop (11th cent.), French stationner to place or position (1358 in Middle French, rare; probably obsolete after the early 17th cent.), to remain in the same place (1802), (of military or naval forces) to remain or be posted in a particular place (1823; also in passive). Compare earlier stationize v.
†1. transitive. Apparently: to position or place (a step in a dance). Obsolete. rare.
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1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. B3v How Goddes-like the elder of the two, Stations the measure, it is a Iouiall sight.
2. transitive. To assign a post, position or place to (a person, troops, ships, etc.); to post to or place in a station. Also figurative.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > place in assigned position
set971
stall1415
stell1488
fix1569
statea1590
stationize1598
post1609
station1685
plant1693
stance17..
possie1918
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > assign to position
lay1454
stell1488
station1748
possie1918
1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services vi. 385 The ablest and most War-like Ships should be so stationed, as that the agillity of the smaller Ships, and the strength of the other may be communicated to a mutual relief.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxix. 262 I was not a whit more exposed than those who were stationed about me.
1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 40 I divided the people into gangs under the midshipmen, and stationed them to the ice hooks, poles, crabs.
a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 36 How many [professors] are stationed to the three faculties, and how many are left for the liberal arts?
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. i. 19 He kept his eyes stationed on the door.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stationing a Ship's Company, arranging the crew for the ready execution of the evolutionary duties of a ship.
1882 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Aug. 613/2 The ‘Conference Plan’..gave the Conference the supreme right of stationing and removing the Preachers.
1927 G. S. Warner Football Coaches & Players 191 The players..are so stationed that they can knock down or intercept any pass that comes into their territory or zone.
1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal (1963) xvi. 160 At one time I was stationed up there, and some of us had been accommodated in rather seedy private houses.
2003 S. Kallaugher Virtualife xix. 162 We got to station them down at the fork, to keep out the reporters.
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a. transitive. Chiefly in passive. To put (an object) into a specified place, esp. for a particular purpose.
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1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Pruning of Fruit-Trees All the Trees which we plant against Walls are thus stationed, because they..require..a Wall to defend them against..our Winter Storms.
1749 Gentleman's Mag. June 244/2 These edifices were stationed along that magnificent way, leading from Cusco to Quito.
1836 Mechanics' Mag. 7 May 67/2 Fire-escapes and improved fire-ladders have been stationed in..many parts of the metropolis.
1879 W. Saunders Through Light Cont. 178 The rival political partisans were..establishing themselves in little wooden booths stationed near the different polling places.
1923 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 30/3 One of the shutter devices is stationed before each spectator.
1976 Billboard 6 Nov. 22/2 Already stationed on the table are two large Rolodex's tightly crammed with names and phone numbers.
2002 New Yorker 18 Nov. 68/3 Diesel pumps were stationed at the mine's entrance.
†b. transitive. Shipbuilding. To determine the proper position for (timbers); to position (a timber or timbers) in designing or building a ship. Cf. station n. 6b. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > determine position for timbers
station1754
1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. v. 184 We may now station the timbers F, I, M, P, R and S, as in the plate.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) The intermediate, or filling-timbers,..are stationed between the principal ones.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 31 Then station the hoops thus: five to be in the lower drift of a first rate ship, and four in a second and third, from the heel to the bed.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 406/2 In stationing the timbers upon the keel for a boat, there must [etc.].
1807 New Encycl. XX. 605/2 The ribands..form a sort of mould for stationing the inferior timbers between the principal ones.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding viii. 148 There was no necessity for stationing every beam at a frame.
†4. transitive. To place in a certain position in a list. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > arrange in sequence or series [verb (transitive)] > place in position in a series
station1730
1730 Compl. Coll. State-trials I. (ed. 2) 236/1 Four Parts in five of the Caption interfere between the inquirendum and the plenius veritatem.., different Times, Persons, Places, Things all stationed between.
1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. Pref. p. li They [sc. the names of purely technical legal classes] would be stationed in the corners and bye-places of the Synopsis.
1830 J. Grigg Pharmacopœia U.S. in N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. (1831) 11 447 The reader..might conclude, that great injustice had been done to many [substances] which are stationed in the secondary list.
1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. 313 At the head of the order Dr. Günther stations the Typhlopidæ, Tortricidæ, [etc.].
5.
a. transitive (reflexive). To position oneself, take up one's (preferred) place. Also occasionally of a thing.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > take up position [verb (reflexive)]
steek?c1335
stow1362
biga1425
plant?1544
pitch1687
adjust1700
station1740
locate1775
park1914
1740 Gentleman's Mag. June 305/2 Monk and Dean stationed themselves again at the Mouth of the Texel.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 5 She observed a stranger, in a pilgrim's habit, station himself near the grate.
1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 343 According to the motions which the object makes, the image touches it or stations itself by its side.
1889 W. Lockhart Church Scotl. in 13th Cent. vii. 79 The bishop stationed himself at the left corner of the church towards the east.
1928 Amazing Stories 3 541/1 All three donned the suits and stationed themselves at the upper opening.
1968 Life 16 Aug. 18/3 Many a night our teacher would station herself at the corner of 9th and E Streets.
2009 L. Tohe in P. Millikin Phoenix Noir ii. 148 His once thin torso had taken a turn south and now stationed itself around his thickened waist.
b. transitive. In passive (with unexpressed agent) in same sense.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)]
resteOE
standOE
sitOE
liec1121
inhabitc1384
settlea1400
couchc1400
biga1425
loutc1460
residea1475
innc1475
contain1528
consist1542
seatc1580
situate1583
lodge1610
site1616
subsist1618
station1751
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. xcii. 106 Cadwallader shutting himself in the closet, that was contiguous to the chamber in which his friend Peregrine was stationed.
1780 Mirror No. 103 There is a..merry-looking dog of a sailor..stationed at the corner of the street where I live.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. viii. 60 Lady Vargrave was stationed by the open window.
1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 696/1 Finding him stationed near her with the usual matter-of-course, Clover asked him why he did not do his duty.
1909 S. L. Bensusan Children's Story of Bee vii. 108 The scouts..might have been seen following their aërial roads to where the swarm was stationed.
1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill iv. 143 Sister Giles, as he entered, was stolidly stationed beside the operating table.
1995 G. Rose Love's Work ii. 13 He remained stationed at the top of the stairwell, leaning on the heavy balustrade.
6. transitive (in passive). Botany. Of a plant or species of plant: to grow or occur at a certain station (station n. 4e) or location. Now rare.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > inhabit or colonize [verb (intransitive)] > be situated
station1837
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 323 Such species as have their barren and fertile flowers on distinct plants, do not perfect their fruit except where individuals of both sorts are stationed in the vicinity of one another.
1874 M. M. Hartog tr. H. Baillon Nat. Hist. Plants III. 21 Of these, Calycocarpum alone is stationed in North America.
1931 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 59 205/1 At once we see, therefore, why so many insect-eating plants are stationed in these marshy places, like sundew, butterwort, Venus fly-trap, bladderwort, etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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