different between plot vs station

plot

English

Etymology

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (a plot of ground), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (a patch), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (patch, strip of cloth, rags), German Bletz (rags, bits, strip of land), Gothic ???????????????????? (plats, a patch, rags). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of the "secret plan" sense.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pl?t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pl?t/
  • Rhymes: -?t

Noun

plot (plural plots)

  1. (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]
    Synonym: storyline
    • c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem
  2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]
    Synonym: parcel
  3. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  4. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]
    Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme
  5. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
    • a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland
  6. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  7. A plan; a purpose.
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

  1. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
  2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
  3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
    • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall
  4. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

Synonyms

  • (contrive): becast
  • (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
  • (an area of land): lot

Derived terms

  • replot

Translations

Anagrams

  • OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

Albanian

Etymology

From plotë.

Adverb

plot

  1. full, fully, full of

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?plot]

Noun

plot m

  1. fence

Declension

Derived terms

  • živý plot m

Related terms

  • oplotit

Further reading

  • plot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • plot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?t

Verb

plot

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten
  2. imperative of plotten

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plo/
  • Rhymes: -o

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

  1. traffic cone
  2. cone used in slalom

Luxembourgish

Verb

plot

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ploen
  2. second-person plural present indicative of ploen
  3. second-person plural imperative of ploen

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pl?t/

Noun

plot f

  1. genitive plural of plota

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Noun

pl?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. fence

Declension


Spanish

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

  1. (story-telling) plot

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station

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.):

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