DOWNSTAGE

downstage

(adjective) of the front half of a stage

downstage

(adverb) at or toward the front of the stage; “the actors moved further and further downstage”

downstage

(noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)

Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.

Towards a motion-picture or television camera.

Adjective

downstage (comparative more downstage, superlative most downstage)

At the front of a stage.

Noun

downstage (uncountable)

The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.

Verb

downstage (third-person singular simple present downstages, present participle downstaging, simple past and past participle downstaged)

(medicine, transitive) To restage (a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).

Source: Wiktionary



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10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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