different between class vs station

English

Etymology

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of classis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Ireland, New England) enPR: kläs, IPA^(key): /kl??s/
• (Northern England, Scotland) enPR: kl?s, IPA^(key): /klæs/, /klas/
• (General American, NYC) enPR: kl?s, IPA^(key): /klæs/, /kle?s/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs
• Hyphenation: class

Noun

class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)

1. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
3. (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
4. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.

5. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

7. (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

8. A series of lessons covering a single subject.

9. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

10. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
12. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

13. Best of its kind.
14. (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
16. (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
    • 1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, Elsevier, 2nd Edition, page 119,

      In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets. […] The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.

17. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
19. (object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

20. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (kurasu)

Translations

Verb

class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)

1. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
2. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
   • 1790, Edward Tatham, The Chart and Scale of Truth

     the genus or family under which it classes

3. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

class (not comparable)

1. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous
   • 2009, Erik Qualman, Socialnomics

     To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.

Related terms

References

• class in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• class in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "class" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 60.
• class at OneLook Dictionary Search
• class in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.

Further reading

• Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old Irish

Verb

·class

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of claidid

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. A stopping place.
   1. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

   2. A ground transportation depot.

   3. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
      • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

        " […] Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."
   4. (US) A gas station, service station.
      • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

        Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. A place where workers are stationed.
   1. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

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

   3. A military base.

   4. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.

   5. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
      • 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,

        There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

      • 1993, Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O., entry in Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, page 69,

        Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.

      • 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, page 654,

        The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

3. (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
4. (Christianity) 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.
5. (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addis & Arnold to this entry?)

6. Standing; rank; position.
   • And they in France of the best rank and station

7. A broadcasting entity.

8. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
9. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
10. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
11. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
12. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
13. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
14. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:

      […] the cross legs [are] moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time […]

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

Synonyms

• (broadcasting entity): (that broadcasts television) channel
• (ground transport depot): sta (abbreviation), stn (abbreviation)
• (military base): base, military base
• (large sheep or cattle farm): farm, ranch

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: estasyon
• ? Hindi: ?????? (s?e?an)
• ? Irish: stáisiún
• ? Malay: stesen
• ? Punjabi: ??????/?????? (sa???an)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: stèisean
• ? Urdu: ?????? (s?e?an)

Translations

References

• “station” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. (Newfoundland station)

Verb

station (third-person singular simple present stations, present participle stationing, simple past and past participle stationed) (transitive)

1. (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.

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

   I was stationed on the pier.

   • The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

2. To put in place to perform military duty.

   They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.

   I was stationed at Fort Richie.

Translations

Anagrams

• sat on it

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stati? (“position, station”), derived from the verb stare (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd?a??o?n]

Noun

station c (singular definite stationen, plural indefinite stationer)

1. station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
2. station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
3. station (a company broadcasting radio or television)

Inflection

Derived terms

• brandstation
• endestation
• flyvestation
• mellemstation
• politistation
• pumpestation
• radiostation
• rutebilstation
• stationsby
• togstation

References

• “station” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French station.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /sta????n/
• Hyphenation: sta?ti?on
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

station n (plural stations, diminutive stationnetje n)

1. station (place for vehicles to stop)

   Synonym: statie

Derived terms

• benzinestation
• eindstation
• metrostation
• NS-station
• onderzoeksstation
• pompstation
• ruimtestation
• stationsgebouw
• stationschef
• tramstation
• treinstation
• tussenstation
• wegwaaistation
• weerstation

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: stasiun
• ? Javanese: setasiyun

See also

• depot

French

Etymology

From Old French estation, estacion, borrowed from Latin st?ti?, st?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.sj??/

Noun

station f (plural stations)

1. station

Derived terms

Further reading

• “station” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tâtions

Interlingua

Noun

station (plural stationes)

1. station (place where workers are stationed)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English st?cioun, from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati? (“standing, post, job, position”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ste??n]

Noun

station (plural stations)

1. station

References

• “station” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “station” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[4], 2016.
• “station” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stati?nem, accusative of stati?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta??u?n/

Noun

station c

1. station
   1. A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
   2. A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
   3. Place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.

Declension

Related terms

• stationär

Derived terms

(facility used for broadcasting):

(facility used by a department or collecting of data):

(place where one exits or enters a train, bus etc.):