station

«station» in Mova's school dictionary: a place where trains or buses stop so people can get on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun, verb (station, stations)

meaning for a pupil

1) A station is a place where trains or buses stop so people can get on and off. tree →

2) A station is a building for a special service: fire station, police station, petrol (gas) station. tree →

3) A radio or TV station sends out programmes. tree →

4) In Australia and New Zealand a station is a very large farm for sheep or cattle. tree →

5) To station someone is to put them in a place to do a job. tree →

6) A station can also mean a person's social rank or position in life. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a place in a story; trains stop at stations, people get on and off there; distances between stations. Everyday: train station, bus station, fire station, weather station, space station. Safety: stand behind the yellow line at the station.

examples

• The train stops at 6 stations. tree →
• At the first station, 12 people got off. tree →
• The station is 15 miles from the farm. tree →
• 8 people got on at the next station. tree →
• The fire engine raced out of the fire station. tree →
• My uncle works on a sheep station in Australia. tree →
• The astronauts live on the space station. tree →
• Which radio station do you like? tree →
• Then the prince went to his own quarters and was treated as became his station. tree →

note

Countable: a station, stations. Names a place, no operation by itself. With trains, people getting on add and people getting off take away; keep track of each station in order. Trap: «stationary» (not moving) and «stationery» (paper and pens) are different words.

In the corpora

• A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.
• The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.
• The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power.
• -tion is the most common spelling: station, action, question.
• Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «station» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.