depot
a railroad station.
a bus station.
Military.
a place in which supplies and materials are stored for distribution.
(formerly) a place where recruits are assembled for classification, initial training, and assignment to active units.
a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited.
Physiology. a place where body products not actively involved in metabolic processes are accumulated, deposited, or stored.
Origin of depot
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- sub·de·pot, noun
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How to use depot in a sentence
Mice, for example, have depots of it between their shoulder blades.
Gene editing can alter body fat and may fight diabetes | Silke Schmidt | October 23, 2020 | Science News For StudentsIt’s thought that different visceral and subcutaneous fat depots develop from different precursor cells – cells that can become fat cells.
Belly Fat Linked To Higher Risk Of Premature Death, Regardless Of Your Weight | LGBTQ-Editor | October 5, 2020 | No Straight NewsThis means more fat will be stored in the less safe visceral depots.
Belly Fat Linked To Higher Risk Of Premature Death, Regardless Of Your Weight | LGBTQ-Editor | October 5, 2020 | No Straight NewsThe San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Water Board, which regulates local water quality, charged gasoline giant Kinder Morgan Energy Partners with cleanup after the company bought the fuel depot in 1998.
Pursuing Independent Water Sources, San Diego Ignores One Beneath Its Feet | MacKenzie Elmer | September 14, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoOnly a few years earlier, it had pushed the Navy to create a coal depot here.
Fire on the Bay: 115 Years Ago This Month, a Deadly Explosion Rocked a Navy Ship | Randy Dotinga | July 14, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
If you think of her in retail terms, Hillary is Costco, Wal-Mart, and Home depot all rolled into one mega-mega-mega-store.
Wake Up, Republicans: Hillary Clinton’s Machine Can Crush You | Myra Adams | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Georgia, MARTA (the Metropolitan Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority) built a huge solar canopy at its bus depot in Decatur.
This was the one-room studio in Mill Valley, California near The depot.
Don Carpenter Was a Novelist Both Lacerating and Forgiving | Louis B. Jones | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCamera pans toward window, and we see it, shining like a glorious traffic cone: The Home depot.
Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden | Kelly Williams Brown | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere's a little railroad depot known quite well By all the people Called Zhankoye, Dzhan, Dzhan, Dzahn.
A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellYou'll have to sit in the depot till it stops rainin' a little, and I'll find you a place till mornin'.
The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes"We'll be settin' right in the depot waitin' for it," said Mandy, who declined to take chances.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandAs there was, fortunately, a depot for coals here, we were allowed a few hours to do as we liked.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferAs the Rome branch connected with the main road above the depot, he encountered no hindrance, and it was now a fair race.
British Dictionary definitions for depot
/ (ˈdɛpəʊ, US Canadian ˈdiːpəʊ) /
a storehouse or warehouse
military
a store for supplies
a training and holding centre for recruits and replacements
mainly British a building used for the storage and servicing of buses or railway engines
US and Canadian
a bus or railway station
(as modifier): a depot manager
(of a drug or drug dose) designed for gradual release from the site of an injection so as to act over a long period
Origin of depot
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