different between station vs commission
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.):
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commission
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French commission, from Latin commissi? (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”), + noun of action missi? (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mitt? (“to send”), + noun of action suffix -i?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??m???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
- Synonyms: committee, government body
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
- Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
- Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
- Antonym: omission
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)
- (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
- 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
- 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)
- (transitive) To put into active service
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commissio, commissionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.mi.sj??/
Noun
commission f (plural commissions)
- commission (fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction)
Derived terms
- Commission européenne
Descendants
- ? Persian: ???????? (komisiyon)
- ? Turkish: komisyon
Further reading
- “commission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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