Dagens Engelsk ord

station

Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

station

1. n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

2. n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

3. n. A stopping place.

4. n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

The next station is Esperanza.

5. n. A ground transportation depot.

It's right across from the bus station.

6. n. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.

From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.

All ships are on station, Admiral.

7. n. (US) A gas station, service station.

8. n. A place where workers are stationed.

9. n. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

The police station is opposite the fire station.

10. n. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.

The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.

The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

11. n. A military base.

She had a boyfriend at the station.

12. n. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.

I used to work at a radio station.

13. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.

14. n. One of the Stations of the Cross.

15. n. The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

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

17. n. Standing; rank; position.

She had ambitions beyond her station.

18. n. A broadcasting entity.

I used to listen to that radio station.

19. n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

20. n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.

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

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

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

24. n. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.

25. v. To put in place to perform a task.

The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

26. v. To put in place to perform military duty.

They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

Svenska > Engelsk

station

1. n-c. station

2. n-c. A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.

3. n-c. A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.

4. n-c. Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.

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Exempelmeningar

How far is the next gas station?
    Hur långt är det till nästa bensinstation?
Please let me pick up your sister at the station.
    Snälla låt mig få plocka upp din syster på stationen.
My house is ten minutes' walk from the station.
    Mitt hus ligger tio minuters gångväg från stationen.
Will you wait for us at the station?
    Kommer du att vänta på oss på stationen?

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