station
What is the Definition of station?
Noun:
- a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
- proper or designated social situation
- (nautical)
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry)
- the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
Verb:
- assign to a station
How can I use station in a sentence?
According to the large clock over the arrivals board, he had ten minutes left to get on the train to Hogwarts and he had no idea how to do it; he was stranded in the middle of a station with a trunk he could hardly lift, a pocket full of wizard money, and a large owl.
On the last day of August he thought he would better speak to his aunt and uncle about getting to King's Cross station the next day, so he went down to the living room where they were watching a quiz show on television.
It was Uncle Vernon, still purple-faced, still mustached, still looking furious at the nerve of Harry, carrying an owl in a cage in a station full of ordinary people.
He got up and pulled on his jeans because he did not want to walk into the station in his wizard's robes — he would change on the train.
Up another escalator, out into Paddington station; Harry only realized where they were when Hagrid tapped him on the shoulder.
Other meanings of station (synonyms, cognates).
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| stationary |
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