What's the difference between cove and station?

Cove


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • (n.) A concave molding.
  • (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 2.56pm GMT 12.51pm GMT They also think the worst is over at the Cove House Inn, according to Steven Morris.
  • (2) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (3) This paper reviews the first seven days of the Station's role at Anzac Cove, during which time this essentially inexperienced medical unit treated and evacuated an estimated 2700 wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers.
  • (4) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (5) The transient decrease in left circumflex coronary artery blood flow during atrial contraction (atrial coves) was examined in open-chest, heart-blocked dogs.
  • (6) Right diastolid flow runoff, including the cove late in diastole, resembled left circumflex runoff.
  • (7) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (8) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (9) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
  • (10) They landed on the beach at Anzac Cove at 11 a.m. on 25th April 1915, and remained on a 20 metre stretch of beach through eight months of the Gallipoli campaign.
  • (11) 'Something I think people will like is that it's a girl (not a boy) who is adventurous, strong and brave' said Bookworm88, in her review of Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John 'What I loved most was the chance to read about children whose lives are very different from mine", wrote Lottielongshanks of Sky Hawk, by Gill Lewis We'd like to find out about more books that show different lifestyles and break the stereotypes.
  • (12) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
  • (13) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
  • (14) Fifteen dolphins were taken on Sunday from the cove via sling and transferred to the Taiji harbour sea pens and several captive facilities in Taiji, the group said on its Facebook page .
  • (15) "Our losses in 2012 were devastating," said Matt Schlapp, a consultant with Cove Strategies.
  • (16) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
  • (17) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) They've reopened the storm shutters on the Cove House Inn.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer is calling on volunteers living near beaches such as Eastney (near Portsmouth), Exmouth (Devon), Chesil Cove (Dorset) and Hayle Towans (Cornwall) to help clean and survey the affected areas during its Big Beach Clean-up between 24 and 30 April.
  • (19) Porth Iago and Porth Ferin, near Aberdaron, Gwynedd Porth Iago beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith These two coves are separated by a short walk along one of the newest parts of the Wales Coast Path.
  • (20) Designated the casualty clearing hospital, it was called a Casualty Clearing Station on the beach at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli campaign.

Station


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
  • (n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
  • (n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
  • (n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
  • (n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
  • (n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
  • (n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
  • (n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
  • (n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
  • (n.) Situation; position; location.
  • (n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
  • (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
  • (v. t.) 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 coasts of Africa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
  • (3) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) Numerous voters reported problems at polling stations on Tuesday.
  • (6) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (7) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
  • (8) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (9) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
  • (10) Service station attendants' exposure to benzene, based on 85 TWA results at 7 stations, were well below 1 ppm except one exposure of 2.08 ppm.
  • (11) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
  • (12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
  • (13) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
  • (14) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
  • (15) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
  • (16) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (17) Eleven months later and staff are still waiting to find out when – or if – the station will close and what exactly will replace it.
  • (18) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
  • (19) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (20) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.