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depot
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depot
n.
storehouse, place where things are placed in storage; bus or train station
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Depot
Depot ( or ) is from the French dépôt which means a deposit (as in geology or banking) or a storehouse. In English, depot can mean any one of a number of things, with minor variances between the different English speaking countries:
Transport
- Transport hub for freight
- Motive power depot, where trains and trams are sheltered and eventually maintained when not in use
- Propellant depot, which supplies fuel to spacecraft
- Castaway depot, contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks
- A train depot, where mainly locomotives are sheltered and repaired
- Used as a part of railway station's name, because the same place was previously or still is being used as a train shelter and naturally became a railway station as well (e.g. Boise Union Pacific Depot)
- Bus garage or 'bus depot', where buses are sheltered when not in use
- Used as a part of bus station's name (e.g. Ang Mo Kio Bus Depot)
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depot
Noun
1. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
(synonym) terminal, terminus
(hypernym) station
(hyponym) air terminal, airport terminal
(part-holonym) transportation system, transportation, transit
2. a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
(synonym) storehouse, entrepot, storage, store
(hypernym) depository, deposit, repository
(hyponym) granary, garner
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Depot (das)
n.
stock, stk, supply, store
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dépôt
nm.
deposit, trust, sediment, store, depot, arsenal, scale, handing, submission, filing, entrusting, repository, depository, sludge, yard, congeries
