College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. |
| 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. |
| 3. | an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. |
| 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. |
| 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. |
| 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. |
| 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. |
| 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. |
| 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. |
| 10. | a company; assemblage. |
| 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. |
| 12. | British Slang. a prison. |
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Station Definition–noun | 1. | a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located. |
| 2. | a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers. |
| 3. | the building or buildings at such a stopping place. |
| 4. | the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station. |
| 5. | a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station. |
| 6. | the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station. |
| 7. | a position, office, rank, calling, or the like. |
| 8. | Radio and Television. | a. | a studio or building from which br
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| c. | a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster: Tune to the Civil Defense station. |
| d. | the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts. |
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| 9. | Military. | a. | a military place of duty. |
| b. | a semipermanent army post. |
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| 10. | Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty. |
| 11. | (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided. |
| 12. | Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found. |
| 13. | Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., esp. for raising sheep. |
| 14. | Surveying.
| b. | a precisely located reference point. |
| c. | a length of 100 ft. (30 m) along a survey line. |
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| 15. | a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station. |
| 17. | Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still. |
–verb (used with object) | 18. | to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position. |
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