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STATIONS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
Synonyms:
Stations; Stations of the Cross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Stations" is a kind of...):
devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
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Present simple (third person singular) of the verb station
Context examples:
The ideal case would be to combine both methods, strategic interviewing and thermography, moving our system to, for example, police stations, airports or refugee camps.
(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)
The South Korean government has recently announced plans for 16,000 more hydrogen-fueled cars and 310 special refilling stations.
(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)
Fanny would rather have had Edmund tell the story, but his determined silence obliged her to relate her brother's situation: her voice was animated in speaking of his profession, and the foreign stations he had been on; but she could not mention the number of years that he had been absent without tears in her eyes.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The switch-off will not affect local and some regional radio stations.
(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)
In a paper, researchers describe an experiment that turned 20 kilometers of undersea fiber-optic cable into the equivalent of 10,000 seismic stations along the ocean floor.
(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)
Norway becomes the first country to start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations.
(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)
The goal of the researchers' efforts is to use fiber-optic networks around the world — more than 10 million kilometers in all, on both land and under the sea — as sensitive measures of Earth's movement, allowing earthquake monitoring in regions that don't have ground stations such as those that dot much of earthquake-prone California and the Pacific Coast.
(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
