Outstation vs. Station — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Outstation and Station
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Definitions
Outstation➦
A remote station or post.
Station➦
A place on a railway line where trains regularly stop so that passengers can get on or off
We walked back to the station and caught the train back to Brussels
Paddington Station
Outstation➦
A station or post in a remote position; an outpost.
Station➦
A place or building where a specified activity or service is based
A research station in the rainforest
Coastal radar stations
Outstation➦
Out of town.
Station➦
A company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind
A radio station
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Outstation➦
Out of town.
Station➦
The place where someone or something stands or is placed on military or other duty
The lookout resumed his station in the bow
Outstation➦
A station in a remote or sparsely populated location
Station➦
A site at which a particular species, especially an interesting or rare one, grows or is found.
Station➦
Short for Stations of the Cross
Station➦
Put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one
A young girl had stationed herself by the door
Troops were stationed in the town
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Station➦
A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post
A sentry station.
Station➦
An area where a person is assigned to work.
Station➦
The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed
A police station.
Station➦
A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.
Station➦
Australian & New Zealand A large ranch on which livestock, especially cattle or sheep, are raised.
Station➦
Social position; rank
"He was degraded in their eyes.
He had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).
Station➦
An establishment equipped for observation and study
A radar station.
A biological field station.
Station➦
An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.
Station➦
One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions
The views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.
Station➦
A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.
Station➦
An input or output point along a communications system.
Station➦
A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.
Station➦
(Ecology) A sampling location
Differences in species diversity between upstream and downstream stations.
Station➦
Station Roman Catholic Church Any of the Stations of the Cross.
Station➦
One of a series of holy places visited by pilgrims as a ritual devotion.
Station➦
To assign to a position; post.
Station➦
A stopping place.
Station➦
A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
The next station is Esperanza.
Station➦
A ground transportation depot.
It's right across from the bus station.
Station➦
A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
Station➦
A place where some object is provided.
Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
Station➦
(US) A gas station, service station.
Station➦
A place where workers are stationed.
Station➦
An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
The police station is opposite the fire station.
Station➦
A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
Station➦
A military base.
She had a boyfriend at the station.
Station➦
A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
I used to work at a radio station.
Station➦
A very large sheep or cattle farm.
Station➦
(historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
Station➦
(Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
Station➦
(Christianity) 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.
Station➦
(Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Station➦
Standing; rank; position.
She had ambitions beyond her station.
Station➦
A broadcasting entity.
I used to listen to that radio station.
Station➦
(Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
Station➦
(surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
Station➦
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
Station➦
(mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
Station➦
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
Station➦
(medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
Station➦
(obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
Station➦
(astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Station➦
(usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
I was stationed on the pier.
Station➦
To put in place to perform military duty.
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
I was stationed at Fort Richie.
Station➦
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
A station like the herald, Mercury.
Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them.
Station➦
A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet.
Station➦
The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
Station➦
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
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.
Station➦
Situation; position; location.
The fig and date - why love they to remainIn middle station, and an even plain?
Station➦
State; rank; condition of life; social status.
The greater part have kept, I see,Their station.
They in France of the best rank and station.
Station➦
The 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.
Station➦
In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.
Station➦
To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa.
He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed.
Station➦
A facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose;
He started looking for a gas station
The train pulled into the station
Station➦
Proper or designated social situation;
He overstepped his place
The responsibilities of a man in his station
Married above her station
Station➦
(nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
Station➦
The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;
A soldier manned the entrance post
A sentry station
Station➦
Assign to a station
