What's the difference between harbour and station?

Harbour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
  • (2) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (3) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
  • (4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (5) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
  • (6) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (7) Previous use of metronidazole was reported in only 16 patients, 11 of whom (68.8%) harboured resistant Helicobacter pylori strains.
  • (8) The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+).
  • (9) c. Even within the overall normal range of duct diameter (less than 12 mm) the wider the duct, the greater is the chance of it harbouring a stone.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
  • (11) G. vaginalis was found in high concentrations in 73% of those harbouring this bacterium.
  • (12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (13) The state premier, Mike Baird , also requested the French flag fly over the harbour bridge.
  • (14) A purified, functionally active DNA binding protein and a pool of random double-stranded oligonucleotides harbouring PCR primer sites at each end are included the TDA cycle which consists of four separate steps: a DNA protein incubation step, a protein DNA complex separation step, a DNA elution step and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification step.
  • (15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
  • (16) Twelve differently-sized plasmids from 1.8 to 63 kbp were identified in those strains harbouring extrachromosomal DNA.
  • (17) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
  • (18) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
  • (19) This scientific advice will also form the basis of a new report card that will ensure the community is informed of the health of the harbour in an open and transparent way.
  • (20) At both sampling dates, the most heavily infected 25% of the community harboured over 90% of the total pinworms recovered.

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.