DEPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depot mean? 

• DEPOT (noun)
  The noun DEPOT has 2 senses:

1. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

2. a depository for goods

  Familiarity information: DEPOT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

depot; terminal; terminus

Hypernyms ("depot" is a kind of...):

station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depot"):

air terminal; airport terminal (a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight)

bus depot; bus station; bus terminal; coach station (a terminal that serves bus passengers)

cathode (the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current)

railroad station; railroad terminal; railway station; train depot; train station (terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods)

subway station (a terminal where subways load and unload passengers)

Holonyms ("depot" is a part of...):

transit; transportation; transportation system (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A depository for goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse

Context example:

storehouses were built close to the docks

Hypernyms ("depot" is a kind of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depot"):

dump (a place where supplies can be stored)

garner; granary (a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed)

magazine; powder magazine; powder store (a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored)

railhead (a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution)

treasure house (a storehouse for treasures)

storage warehouse; warehouse (a storehouse for goods and merchandise)

 Context examples 

Upon administration, Montanide ISA 720 forms a depot at the injection site and is therefore capable of slowly releasing the antigen(s) from the injection site.

(Montanide ISA 720, NCI Thesaurus)

Drug administration via imbedded implants used as depot formulations to limit high drug concentrations to the area surrounding the pathology or to provide sustained drug release for systemic therapy.

(Administration via Implantation, NCI Thesaurus)

There is Mortimer’s, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane’s carriage-building depot.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A prolonged-release depot suspension of microparticles containing the acetate salt of lanreotide, a synthetic peptide analog of the naturally occurring somatostatin, and copolymers.

(Lanreotide Acetate Copolymer Microparticles, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent adsorbs and precipitates protein antigens in solution; the resulting precipitate improves vaccine immunogenicity by facilitating the slow release of antigen from the vaccine depot formed at the site of inoculation.

(Aluminum Sulfate Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

The thermosensitive triblock copolymer component of this formulation transforms from a water-soluble polymer at room temperature to a water-insoluble, biodegradable gel depot at body temperature; intratumoral controlled-release of paclitaxel from the gel minimizes systemic exposure to paclitaxel and the paclitaxel toxicity profile.

(PGLA/PEG Copolymer-Based Paclitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

Clerks in the express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)