Stationary
adjective
Not moving or not intended to be moved.
The car was stationary at the red light.
Often appears as...
- stationary vehicle
- remain stationary
adjective
Related to or used in writing materials.
He went to the store to buy some stationary for school.
Often appears as...
- stationary store
- stationary items
adjective
Not moving or not intended to be moved.
The car was stationary at the red light.
Often appears as...
- stationary vehicle
- remain stationary
adjective
Related to or used in writing materials.
He went to the store to buy some stationary for school.
Often appears as...
- stationary store
- stationary items
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Stillness
Refers to an object completely at rest, often temporarily during activities.
Everyone stood stationary during the minute of silence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not In Operation
Used for machinery or equipment that currently isn't functioning or being used.
The factory machinery was stationary for maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Awaiting Action
Often refers to someone or something paused, waiting for a signal to move or act.
The athletes remained stationary at their marks, awaiting the start signal.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Stillness
Refers to an object completely at rest, often temporarily during activities.
Everyone stood stationary during the minute of silence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not In Operation
Used for machinery or equipment that currently isn't functioning or being used.
The factory machinery was stationary for maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Awaiting Action
Often refers to someone or something paused, waiting for a signal to move or act.
The athletes remained stationary at their marks, awaiting the start signal.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Stillness
Refers to an object completely at rest, often temporarily during activities.
Everyone stood stationary during the minute of silence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not In Operation
Used for machinery or equipment that currently isn't functioning or being used.
The factory machinery was stationary for maintenance.
Pro Tip 3/3Awaiting Action
Often refers to someone or something paused, waiting for a signal to move or act.
The athletes remained stationary at their marks, awaiting the start signal.
Compare with
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Malcolm Gladwell: The...
and you're trying to drop an object, a bomb, towards some stationary target in the face of all kinds of winds and cloud cover and all kinds of other impediments. And all sorts of people, moving up to the First World War and between the wars, tried to solve this problem,
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Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
the surface to breathe and then going under its mom for a period suckle the animals are basically stationary so we don't think that this is sort of a position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the
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The benefits of good...
Wear shoes with low heels and good arch support, and use a headset for phone calls. It's also not enough to just have good posture. Keeping your muscles and joints moving is extremely important. In fact, being stationary for long periods with good posture
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Find your way by looking...
located directly above the pole and so it doesn't move the rest of the sky rotates around the North Star while the north star stays stationary always due north all through the night I want to show you a few pictures and videos to
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Eye vs. camera - Michael...
the result of hundreds of millions of years of coevolution with our brains. And so what if we don't always see the world exactly as it is. There's a certain joy to be found watching stationary leaves
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Inside the Doomsday...
could hit any stationary target in the US with multi Megaton nuclear warheads the e4b is capable of refueling in air and flying for extended periods special paint protects it from the thermal
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Niall Ferguson: The 6...
that's the most important thing that happened that year You bet. There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but "China seems to have been long stationary,
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Discovering Rare Bat...
rewriting bat biology they've discovered that the baurus or van gelder's bat not only takes prey on the wing but its refined sonar can even help it picture stationary insects
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Kenneth Cukier: Big data...
for uses that we never even imagined when we first collected the data. In this respect, the data has gone from a stock to a flow, from something that is stationary and static
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Brady Barr Pretends to...
stationary blind my spirits have been read I made my disguise look and smell more like the real deal and it paid off with a close encounter
Video examples
Malcolm Gladwell: The...
and you're trying to drop an object, a bomb, towards some stationary target in the face of all kinds of winds and cloud cover and all kinds of other impediments. And all sorts of people, moving up to the First World War and between the wars, tried to solve this problem,
Video examples
Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
the surface to breathe and then going under its mom for a period suckle the animals are basically stationary so we don't think that this is sort of a position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the
Video examples
The benefits of good...
Wear shoes with low heels and good arch support, and use a headset for phone calls. It's also not enough to just have good posture. Keeping your muscles and joints moving is extremely important. In fact, being stationary for long periods with good posture
Video examples
Find your way by looking...
located directly above the pole and so it doesn't move the rest of the sky rotates around the North Star while the north star stays stationary always due north all through the night I want to show you a few pictures and videos to
Video examples
Eye vs. camera - Michael...
the result of hundreds of millions of years of coevolution with our brains. And so what if we don't always see the world exactly as it is. There's a certain joy to be found watching stationary leaves
Video examples
Inside the Doomsday...
could hit any stationary target in the US with multi Megaton nuclear warheads the e4b is capable of refueling in air and flying for extended periods special paint protects it from the thermal
Video examples
Niall Ferguson: The 6...
that's the most important thing that happened that year You bet. There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but "China seems to have been long stationary,
Video examples
Discovering Rare Bat...
rewriting bat biology they've discovered that the baurus or van gelder's bat not only takes prey on the wing but its refined sonar can even help it picture stationary insects
Video examples
Kenneth Cukier: Big data...
for uses that we never even imagined when we first collected the data. In this respect, the data has gone from a stock to a flow, from something that is stationary and static
Video examples
Brady Barr Pretends to...
stationary blind my spirits have been read I made my disguise look and smell more like the real deal and it paid off with a close encounter
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Mike Hughes
American Celebrity
I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything was a lie - all the wars, that there was no government, that corporations ran the world, that everything was a fraud - that everyone lied about everything.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
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Harbhajan Singh
Indian Athlete
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Elon Musk
South African Businessman
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Scientist
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
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James Freeman Clarke
American Clergyman
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
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Philip K. Dick
American Writer
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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Murray Walker
English Entertainer
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
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Bob Goff
American Author
Love is never stationary.
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Mike Hughes
American Celebrity
I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything was a lie - all the wars, that there was no government, that corporations ran the world, that everything was a fraud - that everyone lied about everything.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
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Harbhajan Singh
Indian Athlete
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Elon Musk
South African Businessman
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Scientist
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
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James Freeman Clarke
American Clergyman
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
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Philip K. Dick
American Writer
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
Quote examples
Murray Walker
English Entertainer
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
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Bob Goff
American Author
Love is never stationary.
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