different between station vs article
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)
- A stopping place.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- A ground transportation depot.
- 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."
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- (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.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- A place where workers are stationed.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- A military base.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
- (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.
- 1890, A. B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River,
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- (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.
- (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?)
- Standing; rank; position.
- And they in France of the best rank and station
- A broadcasting entity.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (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 […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.5:
- (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)
- (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
- 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)
- station (major stopping place for busses or trains)
- station (a building which is the center for an institution, in particular a police station)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- station
- A facility used for broadcasting of transmissions.
- A facility (used by a state run department) or by scientists for collecting data.
- 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.):
station From the web:
- what station is yellowstone on
- what station is klove
- what station is nascar on
- what station is npr
- what station is jeopardy on
- what station is nascar on today
- what station is american idol on
- what station is iheartradio
article
English
Etymology
From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h?er- (“to join, fit (together)”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t?k?l/, [???t??k???]
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t?k?l/, /???t?kl?/, [??(?)???k?]
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?k?l
Noun
article (plural articles)
- A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
- An object, a member of a group or class.
- (grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
- A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
- A genuine article.
- A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
- 1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
- upon each article of human duty
- 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
- the different articles which compose the blood
- 1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
- (derogatory, dated) A person; an individual.
- a shrewd article
- (archaic) A wench.
- (dated) Subject matter; concern.
- a very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
- This last article perhaps will hardly be believed.
- (dated) A distinct part.
- (obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.
- 1683, John Evelyn, Diary, 13 July 1683.
- This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice.
- 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Original Preface:
- […] who has more opportunities of acquiring the knowledge, than a physician? He is admitted into the dwellings of all ranks of people, and into the innermost parts of them; he sees them by their fireside, at their tables, and in their beds; he sees them at work, and at their recreations; he sees them in health, in sickness, and in the article of death; […]
- 1634, William Habington, Castara
- each article of time
- 1683, John Evelyn, Diary, 13 July 1683.
Derived terms
Related terms
- articulate
- articulation
Translations
Verb
article (third-person singular simple present articles, present participle articling, simple past and past participle articled)
- (transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
- to article an apprentice to a mechanic
- 1876, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Vicar of Morwenstow, Chapter LIV
- When the boy left school at Liskeard, he was articled to a lawyer, Mr. Jacobson, at Plymouth, a wealthy man in good practice, first cousin to his mother; but this sort of profession did not at all approve itself to Robert's taste, and he only remained with Mr. Jacobson a few months.
- (obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
- 1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary, March 1665
- At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend therein.
- 1793, Manning of the Navy Act (Statutes of George III 33 c. 66) ¶VIII[2]:
- […] if the Captain of any Merchant ship under convoy shall wilfully disobey Signals […] he shall be liable to be articled against in the High Court of Admiralty […]
- 1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary, March 1665
- To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- If […] all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
Derived terms
- articled clerk
Further reading
- article in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- article in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- clairet, lacerti, recital
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin articulus. Compare the inherited doublet artell.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /???ti.kl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?r?ti.kl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a??ti.kle/
Noun
article m (plural articles)
- article (a piece of nonfictional writing)
- (grammar) article
Derived terms
- article determinat
- article definit
Further reading
- “article” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “article” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “article” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “article” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French article, borrowed from Latin articulus. Compare the inherited doublet orteil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?.tikl/
Noun
article m (plural articles)
- article (a piece of nonfictional writing)
- (grammar) article
- merchandise, sales article
- section (of a law)
- (dated) joint, articulation
- moment (only in the phrase à l'article de la mort)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “article” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin articulus.
Pronunciation
Noun
article m (plural articles)
- article (a piece of nonfictional writing)
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin articulus.
Noun
article m (oblique plural articles, nominative singular articles, nominative plural article)
- (anatomy) joint; articulation
- (religion) article (of faith)
- article (clause in a legal document or treaty)
Usage notes
- Occasionally used as a feminine noun
Descendants
- French: article
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (article, supplement)
- article on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
article From the web:
- what article of the constitution
- what article is the executive branch
- what article is the judicial branch
- what article is the legislative branch
- what article tells how to amend the constitution
- what article is the supremacy clause
- what article establishes the legislative branch
- what article tells how to ratify the constitution
you may also like
- station vs article
- bunch vs congregate
- never-ending vs enduring
- jog vs straggle
- damp vs dew
- carious vs defective
- harmful vs rank
- retain vs stop
- compensation vs retribution
- routine vs balanced
- fixedness vs steadfastness
- narrate vs yelp
- hasten vs hobble
- tranquil vs facile
- definite vs formal
- acid vs peevish
- scornful vs disreputable
- moral vs innocent
- recount vs whisper
- sour vs rigorous