Station vs Fix - What's the difference?
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(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.
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#* 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.
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To put in place to perform military duty.
A repair or corrective action.
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, title= A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
* (Alain Jourgensen)
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
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A determination of location.
(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
# (by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
To attach; to affix; to hold in place.
# (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
To mend, to repair.
(informal) To prepare (food).
To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]
(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
(transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
(informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
* (rfdate) (Waller)
To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
Station is a related term of fix.
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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 ."
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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English
Alternative forms
* fixe (archaic)Noun
(es)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- "Just one fix !"
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
- A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
- A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
- She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
- That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
- She fixed dinner for the kids.
- A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
- Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
- He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
- Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
- (Abney)
- Your kindness banishes your fear, / Resolved to fix forever here.
- (Francis Bacon)