station
Noun
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is a type of: facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industrysubtypes:
- broadcast station, broadcasting station - a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs
- fire station, firehouse - a station housing fire apparatus and firemen
- first-aid station - a station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained
- observation station - a station set up for making observations of something
- police headquarters, police station, station house - a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought
- power plant, power station, powerhouse - an electrical generating station
- service station - a station where gasoline and oil are sold and facilities are available for repairing or maintaining automobiles
- substation - a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network
- depot, terminal, terminus - station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
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subtypes: niche - a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies itsame as: place
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referred to in: naval forces, navy - an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
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subtypes:
- bridgehead - a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
- lookout, observation post - an elevated post affording a wide view
- outpost, outstation - a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
same as: post -
is a type of: radio frequency - an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared
Verb
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes:
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