| arrest |
When the police arrest someone, they stop that person and bring him or her to the police station. Then they ask that person questions and hold them there for some time. [1/2 definitions] |
| catch |
When you catch something, you take hold of it when it is moving away from you. When the police catch a person, they take control of that person and usually take them to the police station. [1/8 definitions] |
| charging station |
A charging station is a machine that supplies electrical energy to cars or other vehicles that use electricity for power. A place with a machine like this is also called a charging station. |
| depot |
a bus or train station. [1/2 definitions] |
| firehouse |
a building in which equipment for fighting fires is kept and where firefighters meet; fire station. |
| fire station |
A fire station is a place used by people who fight fires. Some firefighters stay there at all times to be ready to put out fires. Fire trucks, ladders, and hoses are kept there too. Another name for a fire station is a fire house. |
| gas station |
a place where gas, oil, and other supplies for running a car can be bought; filling station; service station. |
| near |
When a train nears a station, it means that the train is moving and coming closer to the station. Pretty soon it will arrive there. [1/5 definitions] |
| outpost |
a military post at some distance from a main station. |
| parkway |
a British word for a train station in the suburbs where many people park their cars and commute to work by train. [1/2 definitions] |
| police station |
A police station is a place where police officers do a lot of their work. If people want to report a crime, they go to the police station to talk to police officers, or they call the police station on the telephone. Sometimes a police station has a jail where people who might have done something bad are kept for a time. |
| porter1 |
a person whose job is to carry baggage at a train station, airport, or hotel. [1/2 definitions] |
| rank1 |
relative position or station. [1/6 definitions] |
| reporter |
a person whose job is to gather and report news for a newspaper or magazine, or for a television station or radio station. |
| signal |
Invisible waves that travel through the air to a radio are called signals. The signals are sent out from a radio station and the radio receives them. Televisions and phones receive signals too that let us see images and hear sounds that come from another place. [1/6 definitions] |
| station |
A station is a building where a bus or train stops. In a large station, there might be shops and restaurants for people to eat or buy things while they wait for trains or buses. [4/5 definitions] |
| terminal |
a station for trains, buses, airplanes, or ships, that is found at one end of an important route. [1/5 definitions] |
| transfer |
When you transfer at a bus stop or train station, you change from one bus or train to another. [1/5 definitions] |
| transmit |
When a TV station transmits a program, it sends out the program so that people can watch it in their homes or some other place. [1/3 definitions] |
| tune in |
to adjust to receive TV or radio signals from a certain station, or to select from a number of programs. |
| waiting room |
a room provided in a doctor's office, train station, or the like, in which persons may wait. |