Station vs Brand - What's the difference?
station | brand | Related terms |
(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)
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, 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):
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 , ,
#* 1993 , Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O.'', entry in ''Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900 ,
#* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia ,
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)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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)
To put in place to perform a task.
* '>citation
To put in place to perform military duty.
A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire.
* Palfrey
(archaic) A sword.
* (John Milton)
A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
A branding iron.
A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
*
*
*
A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
* '>citation
* '>citation
The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand name, or of a person.
Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
:When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
:The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
:Her face is branded upon my memory.
To stigmatize, label (someone).
:He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
*
*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
:They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
(advertising) Associated with a particular product, service, or company.
Station is a related term of brand.
As a noun station
is station.As an adjective brand is
burnt, branded.station
English
Noun
(en noun)- "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 ."
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
- 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.
- There was movement at the station , for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
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.
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.
- The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station .
- they in France of the best rank and station
- 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, ranchDerived 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, workstationReferences
* (Newfoundland station)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
- 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
- They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
brand
English
(wikipedia brand)Noun
(en noun)- Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
- Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand .
- (Tennyson)
Synonyms
* trademark, logo, brand name, marque, tradename, proprietary name * (reputation) repute, name, good nameDerived terms
* brand awareness * brand equity * brand image * brand linkage * brand name * brand parity * brand stretch * branding * branding moment * own brandSee also
* * * * * * * * Picture Sorts * trademark * servicemarkVerb
(en verb)Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".}}
Adjective
(-)- That computer company has brand recognition.
- Have we settled on our brand name?