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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m1)

2) A station is a building for a special service: fire station, police station, petrol (gas) station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m2)

3) A radio or TV station sends out programmes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m3)

4) In Australia and New Zealand a station is a very large farm for sheep or cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m4)

5) To station someone is to put them in a place to do a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m5)

6) A station can also mean a person's social rank or position in life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x1)
- At the first station, 12 people got off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x2)
- The station is 15 miles from the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x3)
- 8 people got on at the next station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x4)
- The fire engine raced out of the fire station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x5)
- My uncle works on a sheep station in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x6)
- The astronauts live on the space station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x7)
- Which radio station do you like? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x8)
- Then the prince went to his own quarters and was treated as became his station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)
- [The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/12/)
- [The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/20/)
- [-tion is the most common spelling: station, action, question.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/17/)
- [Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «station» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/station/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.