terminus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ter·mi·nus /ˈtɜːmɪnəs $ ˈtɜːr-/ noun (plural termini /-naɪ/) [countable] TTRTTTthe station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line 〔铁路或公共汽车线路的〕终点站
Examples from the Corpus
terminus• We are talking about a terminus in the heart of a great city and some proper consideration should be given to that.• It now formed a terminus and for the final two miles to Bishop's Castle the train had to reverse.• A terminus wharf was established at Newbridge.• Where possible the purified proteins have been sequenced at the amino terminus to confirm the presence of the expected mutation.• Its downstream terminus was the elegant Clifton House.• Two people died and 542 were injured in the London terminus accident.• The least defined regions are residues 1-4 at the N terminus of CyP and the loop composed of CyP residues 41-45.• Navasota grew as it became established as a railroad terminus.Origin terminus (1800-1900) Latin → TERM1ter·mi·nus nounChineseSyllable
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ter‧mi‧nus /ˈtɜːmənəs, ˈtɜːmɪnəs $ ˈtɜːr-/
noun (plural termini /-naɪ/) [countable]the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line
▪ station a place where trains or buses regularly stop: The town has its own railway station. | Paddington Station in west London | the bus station
▪terminus the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line: We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus. | the railway terminus in central Calcutta
▪track [usually plural] the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from: The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks.
▪platform the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from: Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2.
▪ticket office (also booking office British English) the place at a station where tickets are sold: You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office.
▪departures board British English (also departure board American English) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave: The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late.
ter‧mi‧nus /ˈtɜːmənəs, ˈtɜːmɪnəs $ ˈtɜːr-/
noun (plural termini /-naɪ/) [countable]the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line| THESAURUS |
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