station

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post.
• noun An area where a person is assigned to work.
• noun The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed.
• noun A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.
• noun Australian & New Zealand A large ranch on which livestock, especially cattle or sheep, are raised.
• noun Social position; rank.
• noun An establishment equipped for observation and study.
• noun An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.
• noun One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions.
• noun A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.
• noun An input or output point along a communications system.
• noun A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.
• noun Ecology A sampling location.
• noun Roman Catholic Church Any of the Stations of the Cross.
• noun One of a series of holy places visited by pilgrims as a ritual devotion.
• transitive verb To assign to a position; post.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In phytogeography, the spot at which a plant has been collected or a species has been observed to occur.
• noun In the Meth. Ch., a single church supplied with a fixed pastor: distinguished from a circuit. See circuit, 9.
• noun In zoology, the particular district or districts inhabited by a given group of animals. See area.
• noun A standing still; a state of rest or inactivity.
• noun Manner of standing; attitude; pose: rare except in the specific uses.
• noun Specifically— In medicine, the steadiness (freedom from swaying) with which one stands.
• noun The manner of standing or the attitude of live stock, particularly of exhibition game fowls: as, a duckwing game-cock of standard high station.
• noun The spot or place where anything habitually stands or exists; particularly, the place to which a person is appointed and which he occupies for the performance of some duty; assigned post: as, a life-boat station; an observing-station; the station of a sentinel; the several stations of the officers and crew of a ship when the fire-signal is sounded.
• noun The place where the police force of any district is assembled when not on duty; a district or branch police office. See police station, under police.
• noun The place where the British officers of a district in India, or the officers of a garrison, reside; also, the aggregate of society in such a place: as, to ask the station to dinner.
• noun The condition or position of an animal or a plant in its habitat, or its relation to its environment: often used synonymously with habitat (but habitat is simply the place where an animal or plant lives, station the condition under which it lives there).
• noun In surveying: The place selected for planting the instrument with which an observation is to be made. A regular stopping-place.
• noun Eccles.: In the early church, an assembly of the faithful in the church, especially for the celebration of the eucharist.
• noun The fast and service on Wednesday and Friday (except between Easter and Pentecost), in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
• noun Among Roman Catholics, a church where indulgences are to be obtained on certain days.
• noun Situation; position.
• noun Status; rank; standing; specifically, rank or standing in life; social state or position; condition of life; hence, high rank or standing.
• noun In mining, an enlargement made in a shaft, level, or gangway to receive a pump, bob, tank, or machinery of any kind.
• noun Synonyms . See depot.
• To assign a station or position to: as, to station troops on the right or left of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station one's self at a door.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office.
• noun rare The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
• noun obsolete A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
• noun The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time.
• noun A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
• noun The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
• noun The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
• noun (Biol.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
• noun (Naut.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
• noun A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
• noun (Mil.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive or defensive measures.
• noun (Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.