stationery.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a regular stopping place on a railway line, with a platform and usu. administrative buildings. b these buildings (see also bus stationcoach station).
2 a place or building etc. where a person or thing stands or is placed, esp. habitually or for a definite purpose.
3 a a designated point or establishment where a particular service or activity is based or organized (police station; polling station). b US a subsidiary post office.
4 an establishment involved in radio or television broadcasting.
5 a a military or naval base esp. hist. in India. b the inhabitants of this.
6 position in life; rank or status (ideas above your station).
7 Austral. & NZ a large sheep or cattle farm.
8 Bot. a particular place where an unusual species etc. grows.

--v.

tr.
1 assign a station to.
2 put in position.

station-bill Naut. a list showing the prescribed stations of a ship's crew for various drills or in an emergency. station break US a pause between broadcast programmes for an announcement of the identity of the station transmitting them. station hand Austral. a worker on a large sheep or cattle farm. station house US a police station. station-keeping the maintenance of one's proper relative position in a moving body of ships etc. station of the cross RC Ch. a each of a series of usu.
14 images or pictures representing the events in Christ's passion before which devotions are performed in some churches. b each of these devotions. station pointer Naut. a ship's navigational instrument, often a three-armed protractor, for fixing one's place on a chart from the angle in the horizontal plane between two land- or sea-marks. station sergeant Brit. the sergeant in charge of a police station. station-wagon an estate car. [ME, = standing, f. OF f. L statio -onis f. stare stand]

stationery.html - adj.
1 remaining in one place, not moving (hit a stationary car).
2 not meant to be moved; not portable (stationary troops; stationary engine).
3 not changing in magnitude, number, quality, efficiency, etc. (stationary temperature).
4 (of a planet) having no apparent motion in longitude.

stationary air air remaining in the lungs during ordinary respiration. stationary bicycle a fixed exercise-machine resembling a bicycle. stationary point Math. a point on a curve where the gradient is zero. stationary wave = standing wave.

stationariness n. [ME f. L stationarius (as STATION)]

stationery.html - n.
a person who sells writing materials etc.

Stationers' Hall Brit. the hall of the Stationers' Company in London, at which a book was formerly registered for purposes of copyright. [ME, = bookseller (as STATIONARY in med.L sense 'shopkeeper', esp. bookseller, as opposed to pedlar)]

stationery.html - n.
writing materials etc. sold by a stationer.

Stationery Office (in the UK) the Government's publishing house which also provides stationery for Government offices.

stationery.html - n.
the official in charge of a railway station.

stationery.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 stationary; not acting or changing; passive.
2 Physics a concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium (opp. DYNAMIC). b acting as weight but not moving (static pressure). c of statics.

--n.

1 static electricity.
2 atmospherics.

static electricity electricity not flowing as a current. static line a length of cord attached to an aircraft etc. which releases a parachute without the use of a ripcord. [mod.L staticus f. Gk statikos f. sta- stand]