different between station vs estate
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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estate
English
Etymology
From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s-t?t, IPA(key): /?s?te?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
estate (plural estates)
- The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19thc.]
- (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13thc.]
- Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
- (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13thc.]
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14thc.]
- (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th-17thc.]
- Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
- (historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). [from 14thc.]
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
- I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p.202:
- The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
- (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15thc.]
- An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18thc.]
- The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
- (Britain, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20thc.]
- (Britain, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). [from 20thc.]
- (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever […] concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
Synonyms
- (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
estate (not comparable)
- (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.
- an estate diamond; estate jewelry
Verb
estate (third-person singular simple present estates, present participle estating, simple past and past participle estated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.
See also
- Estate (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- eatest, tatees, tea set, testae, testæ
Interlingua
Etymology
From Italian.
Noun
estate (plural estates)
- summer
See also
Italian
Alternative forms
- està (poetic or regional)
- state (Tuscan)
Etymology
From Latin aest?tem, accusative of aest?s (“summer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“burn; fire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?ta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: es?tà?te
Noun
estate f (plural estati)
- summer
Related terms
- estivo
See also
Anagrams
- attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate
References
- estate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Verb
estate
- Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.
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