|
Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
station
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bus station (=a place where buses start and finish their journeys) ▪ Dad met me at the bus station. a coach station ▪ You will go from Victoria Coach Station to Amsterdam. a petrol station (=a place where you take your car to fill it with petrol) ▪ We'd better stop at the next petrol station. a police station (=building where the police work) ▪ They took him down to the police station to ask him some questions. a radio station (=an organization that broadcasts radio programmes) ▪ There are currently nearly 50 commercial radio stations. a train pulls into/out of a station ▪ The train pulled into Euston station and I got off. a weather station (=a place used for studying and recording weather conditions) action stations ▪ Crew, return to action stations! bus station coach station coal-fired/gas-fired power station Coastguard station ▪ the Coastguard station at Stornoway docking station filling station fire station gas station hill station lifeboat crew/station/service metro station ▪ a metro station petrol station police station polling station power station ▪ Chernobyl nuclear power station railway station ▪ I’ll meet you outside the main railway station. service station space station station break station house station master station wagon tracking station train station troops are stationed ▪ 525,000 American troops were stationed in the country. tune a radio to a station (=make it receive broadcasts from a particular station) ▪ The radio was tuned to a country-music station. TV series/programme/show/station/channel etc ▪ a TV series based on the novel way station ▪ The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE filling ▪ For a moment he'd been near to panic as he realized that the pumps were rusty, the filling station obviously disused. ▪ A FILLING station and car showroom group, with sites in Darlington and on Wearside, has been put on sale. ▪ The application features a superstore, petrol filling station, car park and residential development. ▪ The real benefit, of course, comes at the filling station. ▪ Read in studio A man has foiled a raid at his local filling station despite being threatened with a hammer. ▪ There ahead, where a car swept round the dim curve past a filling station, was the road. ▪ He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol. local ▪ And a phone-in programme on a local radio station produced a deluge of anti-Clough callers. ▪ Organize your friends, build a coalition of local groups, and call on your local station manager. ▪ National daily and Sunday newspaper cookery writers. Local radio stations. ▪ Phone calls to the local police station began a few minutes later. ▪ The band will also record public service announcements for local radio stations, urging petitions to protest the arrest. ▪ Your local police station should be able to mark your bike for you. ▪ The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio, London's independent local radio station. ▪ They, in turn make a tape of an interview or discussion which is then distributed to most local radio stations. main ▪ Rosslyn Castle Station was the main station for the mill during the war. ▪ These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull. ▪ The interview-rooms were away from the main police station. ▪ Start at the Bahnhofstrasse, leading from the main railway station towards the Paradeplatz and the lake. ▪ What are the names of the main power stations using coal? ▪ Eventually the bus load of children was dumped in the middle of Swindon at the main bus station. ▪ After a little while, cross the Ribeira dos Socorridos and reach the main electricity generating station in the island. ▪ Line 5 will also interchange with Line 1 and parallel Line 3 to the main Renfe station. new ▪ Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window. ▪ Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy. ▪ Inspector Brian Jaggs outside Braintree's new police station. ▪ Welcome to the San Diego airwaves, where two new classical stations compete for listeners and advertising dollars. ▪ Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War. ▪ Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations. ▪ The fire official said the new station was situated in Carryduff because of boundary changes in the area. ▪ This includes a hotel, nightclub, restaurants, new railway station and expansion of the ground. nuclear ▪ Kelly has several nuclear stations as customers for his isolators. ▪ Moreover, to close all nuclear power stations would consign 100,000 workers to the dole queues. ▪ However sophisticated the safety designs incorporated into nuclear power stations, they can not overcome the human fallibility which can occur. ▪ The Government has also rejected calls for older Magnox nuclear power stations to be phased out to support a higher coal burn. ▪ A question at once comes to mind: how does one find qualified personnel to operate so many nuclear power stations? ▪ Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans. ▪ With a nuclear station decommissioning was a lengthy, expensive and potentially hazardous enterprise. old ▪ We were on a cycling holiday and me being very interested in railways generally, liked looking over old stations. ▪ You can pick one up near the old railroad station that has been transformed into a visitor center. ▪ The old Colaba station was closed in 1930 when the massive Bombay Central was opened. ▪ Parked ahead on the distant corner was his old dusty station wagon. ▪ The old police station is now the health centre with four doctors and several community nurses. ▪ Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice - old station disintegrating. NOUN bus ▪ When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations, leisure centres, bus shelters or each other's doorsteps. ▪ But really all I did was drive to the Hyannis bus station. ▪ Buses departing from the present bus station to be to the south only. ▪ He came into the bus station wearing jeans and a big smile. ▪ Then I calmed down and asked a safe-looking lady with children to show me the way to the bus station. ▪ Police are also checking bus stations and airports. ▪ I thought you said you saw him at the bus station this morning. ▪ She was headed for the bus station, I thought, and from there back to the Amtrak station in Denver. fire ▪ The review would take away large areas covered by Buckley and Prestatyn retained fire stations. ▪ Ezra glanced through the dark to the fire station. ▪ Read in studio Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans. ▪ Paramedics will be assigned to all 43 city fire stations instead of 23 as at present, starting July 1. ▪ I went into the fire station. ▪ That equipment is now being used by other fire stations, Gillis said. ▪ The train passed a fire station, a brewery, and over the wide murky river. ▪ Developers also face other fees to cover roads, fire stations, parks, libraries and other public improvements. gas ▪ The gas station was an inferno. ▪ In many towns I stopped in, the public buildings were a store, a gas station, and a museum. ▪ Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station. ▪ Paul was injured during an attempted hold-up of the gas station in which he worked. ▪ I tried it on two teen-agers at a gas station. ▪ Upchatting girl from the gas station. ▪ A child is waiting for a ride even as we dawdle at the gas station. petrol ▪ Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment. ▪ The petrol station attendant told her to apply for more at the Kommandatur which turned out to be the old town hall. ▪ David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit. ▪ It also plans to open the original shop and a petrol station. ▪ She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid. ▪ A survey in Mid-Bedfordshire last month found 19 out of 46 sandwiches from petrol stations contained listeria. ▪ Police were alerted at Teignmouth in Devon after three men allegedly drove away from this petrol station without paying. ▪ I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station. police ▪ The council hopes to use the County Buildings in Regent Street, the town's former police station. ▪ Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy. ▪ The men, all under 25, were questioned yesterday at Middlesbrough police station before being released on bail pending further investigations. ▪ Marchers who had cameras were forced to surrender their film, Fiim was also confiscated at the police station from those arrested. ▪ About 10 hours after the shooting the defendant attended the local police station with his attorney. ▪ Evidence is generally stored in a guarded locker in the police station until it is needed in court. ▪ I have been to every Metropolitan police station, from Islington in the north to Bow Street in the west. ▪ He had never been inside a police station, had never met a private detective, had never spoken to a criminal. power ▪ On nationalisation, the divisions had acquired around 300 power stations, initially grouping them for management at an intermediate level. ▪ For two weeks at a time, each lunar power station is out of service. ▪ They spun round undisturbed in front of the nuclear power stations for several hours. ▪ No power station has ever created an electron, the source of our domestic electricity. ▪ Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders. ▪ Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations. ▪ A power station could produce enough electricity to supply a small town. radio ▪ The revolutionary radio stations are monitored daily and brief news bulletins circulated among the prisoners. ▪ He dialed the radio station, because Sands lived nearby and maybe somebody could run over and check on him. ▪ The decree also imposed strict censorship of the media, including the closure of opposition radio stations. ▪ Ringing from her local radio station, she heard her husband Duane is safe and sound. ▪ Currently, no company can own more than two radio stations per market. ▪ The £798 raised was donated to the hospital's radio station Crystal Radio. ▪ Some PROs have even been known to send pictures out to radio stations! railway ▪ Behind the taxis is a crowded railway station and beyond that, the port. ▪ She had gone to the railway station to receive these consignments. ▪ Currency can be exchanged at railway stations. ▪ They checked the bus stops and railway stations. ▪ To start with it can replace taped announcements at railway stations, airports, etc. ▪ This was the railway station as town. ▪ A COP-A-GRAM who stripped in a busy railway station has escaped prosecution. research ▪ These pilot projects represent in principle a transition phase between research station and the real world. ▪ It was founded in 1937 as a private, non-profit archaeological research station. ▪ Part of the money will also be used to refurbish the Signy research station. ▪ After their divorce Jane worked on, helped by students at the growing research station. service ▪ Read in studio Police have opened a motorway service station to encourage drivers to take a break. ▪ Today, the town has a service station, convenience store, barber shop and a few smaller service businesses. ▪ Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true. ▪ Red Devil energy drink and Welcome Break service stations are running a competition to win the bike. ▪ Barclaycard says that holiday frauds are tracked in a variety of places, including service stations and nightclubs. ▪ Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly. ▪ She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch. ▪ Turning off the motorway at the service station he entered a different world. space ▪ The space station was an empty hulk. ▪ The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel. ▪ The space station filled the front windows. ▪ The three-person Soyuz capsules will serve as lifeboats for crews stationed aboard the international space station during its assembly. ▪ The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station. ▪ S.-led international space station, as well as Department of Defense cargo and privately owned communications and Earth-observing satellites. ▪ An unsatisfactory outcome over the space station might make the money even less likely to materialise. ▪ Researchers hope to test the device aboard the new international space station. television ▪ This led to great public cynicism now being manifested as pressure for democratic accountability in the state-run television station. ▪ But the councils have the power to investigate corruption and run their own radio and television stations. ▪ Philip Graham also bought the company's first two television stations. ▪ It also has a pending deal to buy six television stations and 24 radio stations of Heritage Media Group. ▪ If viewers had any complaint at all, it was that television stations devoted too much time to the war. ▪ The television stations were also unprepared. ▪ He was brought to the television station by special ambulance. ▪ So did the Contra Costa Times, his hometown paper, plus several local newspapers and television stations. train ▪ Meanwhile a 24 year old man from Oxford was arrested later as he arrived at Oxford train station. ▪ Doyle remembers Gabby, an 8-year-old he first met eating discarded ice cream cones in the train station. ▪ Some men were lifting down milk cans that had just come from the train station. ▪ They will also meet you at the train stations. ▪ Hugh's Glasgow was a paradise of train stations and carpet factories. ▪ She arrived at the train station, with trunk, on August 6. wagon ▪ Also there is no legal obstruction to you taking the coffin to the crematorium in a station wagon. ▪ On the opposite corner a dusty station wagon idled noisily at the red light. ▪ It was for the upper middle class in their station wagons that rumbled over our heads at night. ▪ Some children pass by, staring out of the back of a station wagon moodily. ▪ Some soccer moms waited in their minivans and station wagons, but none had their radios tuned to the presidential debate. ▪ The latest in the field are a soft top and station wagon Defender 90 models from Land Rover. ▪ The rotted-out Ford station wagon has been replaced. VERB arrive ▪ Meanwhile a 24 year old man from Oxford was arrested later as he arrived at Oxford train station. ▪ She arrived at the train station, with trunk, on August 6. ▪ Just before we arrived at the station, the lights came on. ▪ We finally arrive on station and are submerged by midmorning. ▪ He arrives at the police station. ▪ In many counties people only found out they were on the felons list when they arrived at the polling station. build ▪ However, work on building Torness power station still continued. ▪ Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations. ▪ Yet the temptation to build upwards for the station itself was resisted. ▪ Even if they keep within budget, nuclear plants are at least twice as expensive to build as coal stations. ▪ It was built as a side station with twin towers flanking the train-shed. ▪ New Zealand continued to build stations after the Second World War. ▪ The atom is there and when short-term oil surpluses vanish there will be pressure to build more nuclear power stations. ▪ Probably by encouraging the world's wealthy nations to build nuclear power stations so that other countries need not follow suit. fill ▪ Fumes filled the station at Cowcaddens after a cable fire this afternoon. ▪ Neighborbood filling stations, laundries, and print shops suddenly find themselves facing an avalanche of rules and reporting requirements. ▪ Tesco has linked up to Equifax to combat card fraud at its filling station sites. ▪ Arthur Andersen was requested by Benzina management to provide assistance in determining the value of the petrol filling stations. ▪ The local filling station looks as if it has never been cleaned. ▪ With a projected increase in gas filling stations in the next few years, the private vehicle market will follow. leave ▪ Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies' to check up on her appearance. ▪ The mouths and the dialogue are like trains leaving different stations at different times, in different directions. ▪ The enormous cost of engineering the lines ensured that little money was left for the stations. ▪ About a quarter of those commuters were left standing at the station. ▪ So much capital went into the engineering and the track that little was left for the stations. ▪ But he couldn't just leave her at the station. poll ▪ However, polling stations were not opened in parts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. ▪ In many counties people only found out they were on the felons list when they arrived at the polling station. ▪ Some lingering disputes over voting procedure in a small number of polling stations may delay proceedings. ▪ Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police. ▪ Elsewhere, voting was generally quiet, with only small official demonstrations outside polling stations. ▪ On the eve of the ballot, concerns persisted about independent monitoring, the location of polling stations, and increased violence. ▪ For the 1991 elections, the polling station in Lalmatia Girls High School had been in a festive mood. ▪ This made it easier for absentee owners to vote than for locals, since locals had to get to the polling station. pull ▪ He pulled into the station car park, slammed on the brakes, and made no effort to get out of the van. ▪ I pulled into a gas station this morning. ▪ Some one uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it. ▪ Back at work the next day, the cars may pull up to docking stations and pump electricity into offices or factories. ▪ It was like the noise made by a steam locomotive pulling out from a station. ▪ Fifteen minutes later the locomotive will pull out of the station hauling an express for London. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES panic stations ▪ Suddenly the sound Swindon defence was at panic stations. pirate radio/TV (station) ▪ That's our very own pirate radio. ▪ Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a bus station ▪ a radar station ▪ A reporter from a local television station was sent to interview Shaw. ▪ Buck was sports director at radio station KMOX in St. Louis. ▪ I'll meet you at the train station. ▪ I need to stop at the gas station on the way home. ▪ See if you can find a country music station. ▪ She works for a television station in Utah. ▪ What station are you listening to? EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At least two stations went bust, and others, such as Invicta Radio in Kent, had to relaunch before getting firmly established. ▪ Like a mutant, the intercept station consists only of an ear and a brain connected by a coaxial auditory nerve. ▪ Oil can be used for many things, from running cars to fueling power stations. ▪ Ross estimated that Disney could sell the independent station for $ 300 million to $ 400 million. ▪ The parallel Altländerstrasse was also used by many as short-cut to the station. ▪ The technique would, however, decrease the efficiency of power stations between 10 and 30 percent, hence the price rise. ▪ They are usually placed in factories and offices, or in public places such as railway stations. II. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB here ▪ There have been seven boats stationed here since 1875, the first four pulling-and-sailing types, the last three motor-driven. ▪ If only we had access to such diversity on stations here in Tucson. there ▪ He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries. ▪ When we were stationed there, I used to go around Danang. ▪ The men began to hand in their weapons to their officers, stationed there for that specific purpose. ▪ Later, the family moved to Churchtown, Dublin, when his father was stationed there in the late 1950s. NOUN army ▪ These two sources of evidence together imply the presence of detachments of the field army stationed in both major and minor towns. ▪ At the time Shipley was approached, he was still in the Army, stationed in Washington. city ▪ Mr Rodetsky's supporters claim that television stations in the northern cities denied him television time due to him by law. ▪ James A.. Ruffin, 33, a Baltimore native who oversees three recruiting stations in the city. ▪ Police dispersed the crowds with teargas, and tanks were stationed in the city. gas ▪ Mechanics were needed to keep them running, gas stations to fuel them, insurance agents to insure themthe list is endless. ▪ The brownfields range widely in size, from half-acre former gas stations to 700-acre shuttered steel plants. ▪ Some small gas stations like Torreson's, known for their low prices, ended up with the highest prices. ▪ K., giving it 2, 150 gas stations. ▪ There are more antique stores than supermarkets, more cafes than gas stations. ▪ The Conch had once been a gas station. ▪ Chicago-based Amoco Corp. is building 60 gas stations for $ 60 million. police ▪ War veterans, in many rural areas, have taken control of police stations in villages. ▪ Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner. ▪ Two officers on a police patrol launch stationed just across the river at Westminster Pier saved the youngster's life. ▪ A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action. ▪ Army and police trucks were stationed outside the empty school. power ▪ They will be the first power stations in the world to use olive residues to generate electricity. ▪ The group bought 51 percent of Inversiones Tocopilla Ltda, which in turn owns 51 percent of the power station. radio ▪ Baker circulated the tape to newspapers and radio and television stations in the Amarillo area. ▪ Tens of thousands of people have been deported or displaced and radio stations blare out vitriolic propaganda against one another. ▪ There are no high-powered radio or television stations, and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape. ▪ These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations. service ▪ The ban on the sale of alcohol at garages and motorway service stations remains. ▪ Conoco currently operates in 37 states from Texas to Montana, with 5, 125 service stations bearing the Conoco name. space ▪ The vehicle returning from the Moon can get to the space station for unloading and refueling in either of two ways. television ▪ These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations. ▪ Baker circulated the tape to newspapers and radio and television stations in the Amarillo area. ▪ Newsweek magazine, which her husband had bought in 1961; and two television stations. ▪ Some public television stations applauded the new initiative as something of a programming coup. ▪ Mr Rodetsky's supporters claim that television stations in the northern cities denied him television time due to him by law. ▪ There are no high-powered radio or television stations, and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape. ▪ Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming. ▪ Newspaper owners should not also own television stations in the communities in which they publish. train ▪ It was on Maxwell Street, not far from the train station. ▪ The train station, the border, the ship. ▪ The picnickers rushed off the train at Minnehaha station and made a beeline for the pavilion to claim a good table. ▪ I write down new kanji announcing the names of stops we see in train and subway stations. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ My father was stationed in Europe during World War II. ▪ There were police officers stationed at every exit. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Kate sat in the back next to the luggage, but Ace had stationed himself in front with the pilot. ▪ Reeves continued his military career, was promoted to sergeant and was often stationed overseas while his wife remained in Copperas Cove. ▪ These officials were responsible for the collection of revenue and the general administration of the districts where they were stationed.
station
I. sta‧tion1 S1 W1 /ˈsteɪʃən/ noun [date : 1500-1600; Language : French; Origin : Latin statio 'place for standing or stopping', from stare 'to stand'] 1. TRAIN/BUS [COUNTABLE]a place where trains or buses regularly stop so that passengers can get on and off, goods can be loaded etc, or the buildings at such a place ⇨ terminus: ▪ I want to get off at the next station. ▪ Grand Central Station ▪ Is there a waiting room in the station? train station/railway station British English ▪ the city bus station
2. CENTRE FOR A SERVICE OR ACTIVITY [COUNTABLE]a building or place that is a centre for a particular kind of service or activity: ▪ a police station ▪ a fire station petrol station British English gas station American English (=where petrol is sold) polling station (=where you vote in an election) ▪ an Antarctic research station ⇨ action stations
3. RADIO/TV [COUNTABLE]an organization which makes television or radio broadcasts, or the building where this is done: ▪ New York jazz station WBGO ▪ a local TV station
4. SOCIAL RANK [COUNTABLE] old-fashioned your position in society: ▪ Karen was definitely getting ideas above her station (=higher than her social rank).
5. POSITION [COUNTABLE] formal a place where someone stands or sits in order to be ready to do something quickly if needed: ▪ You’re not to leave your station unless told.
6. FARM [COUNTABLE]a large sheep or cattle farm in Australia or New Zealand
7. ARMY/NAVY [COUNTABLE]a small military establishment: ▪ an isolated naval station • • • THESAURUS ▪station a place where trains or buses regularly stop : ▪ The town has its own railway station. ▪ Paddington Station in west London ▪ the bus station ▪terminus the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line : ▪ We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus. ▪ the railway terminus in central Calcutta ▪track [USUALLY PLURAL]the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from : ▪ The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks. ▪platform the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from : ▪ Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2. ▪ticket office (also booking office British English) the place at a station where tickets are sold : ▪ You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office. ▪departures board British English (also departure board American English) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave : ▪ The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late.
II. station2 verb [TRANSITIVE USUALLY PASSIVE] 1. to send someone in the military to a particular place for a period of time as part of their military duty SYN post: ▪ I was stationed overseas at the time.
2. formal to move to a particular place and stand or sit there, especially in order to be able to do something quickly, or to cause someone to do this: ▪ A security guard was stationed near the door.
|
|
▼ Từ liên quan / Related words
Related search result for "station"
|
|