Kind vs Station - What's the difference?

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Kind is a related term of station.

As nouns the difference between kind and station

is that kind is child (young person) while station is station.

kind

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also kin.

Noun

(en noun)

A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !

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, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}

A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII

*:I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.

(label) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

*:And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede // and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde

(senseid)Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.

Equivalent means used as response to an action.

Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

Usage notes

In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression in kind.

Synonyms

* genre * sort * type * derivative (1) and/or (2) * generation * offspring * child * See also

Derived terms

* in kind * kind of * kinda

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , from cynd.

Adjective

(er)

having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.

Affectionate.

a kind''' man; a '''kind heart

* Goldsmith

Yet was he kind , or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was his fault.

* Waller

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind / Than to the wretched mortals left behind.

Favorable.

mild, gentle, forgiving

The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.

Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

a horse kind in harness

(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

* Holland

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.

(Chaucer)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* kindhearted * kindliness * kindly * kindness

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station

English

Noun

(en noun)

(label) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

* 1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , III.5:

(label) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

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 ."

#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2

, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}

# (label) A gas station, service station.

#* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," 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.

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.

# A very large sheep or cattle farm.

#* 1890 , ,

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 ‘n-gg-r-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.

One of the Stations of the Cross.

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.

A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

Standing; rank; position.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station .

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

they in France of the best rank and station

A broadcasting entity.

(label) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

(label) 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.

(label) 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.

* (1656-1715)

By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.

Synonyms

* (broadcasting entity) (that broadcasts television) channel * (ground transport depot) sta (abbreviation) * (military base) base, military base * (large sheep or cattle farm) farm, ranch

Derived terms

* base station * battle station * broadcast station, broadcast-station * bus station * cattle station * coach station * docking station * filling station * fire station * fuel station * fueling station, fuelling station * gas station * guard station * hill station * hydrogen station * listening station * metro station * mobile station, mobile-station * motor station * outstation * petrol filling station * petrol station * PlayStation, Playstation * police station * polling station * power station * pull station * radar station * radio station, radio-station * railroad station * railway station * relay station * service station * sheep station * space station, spacestation, space-station * substation * subway station * state * stationary * station bill * station break * station hand * stationmaster * station sedan * Stations of the Cross * station throat * station wagon, station-wagon * stationward * substation * subway station * television station, television-station, TV station * total station * train station * Tube station * underground station * urination station * voting station * way station, waystation * weigh station * work station, workstation

References

* (Newfoundland station)

Verb

(en-verb) (transitive)

To put in place to perform a task.

The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

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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.