STAGE

stage, leg

(noun) a section or portion of a journey or course; “then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise”

stage

(noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; “he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box”

stage, microscope stage

(noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

stagecoach, stage

(noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; “we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles”

stage

(noun) the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’); “an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage”

stage

(noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; “All the world’s a stage”--Shakespeare; “it set the stage for peaceful negotiations”

degree, level, stage, point

(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; “a remarkable degree of frankness”; “at what stage are the social sciences?”

phase, stage

(noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events; “we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected”

stage, arrange

(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event); “the neighboring tribe staged an invasion”

stage, present, represent

(verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage; “we are going to stage ‘Othello’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Stage (plural Stages)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stage is the 11856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2641 individuals. Stage is most common among White (93.45%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas

Etymology

Noun

stage (plural stages)

A phase.

(theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.

A floor or storey of a house.

A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.

A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.

(dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

(dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.

(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

Synonym: level

A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.

(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

Synonyms

• (phase): tier, level

• (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase

Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

(transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

(transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.

(transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.

(transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to

Synonyms

• (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake

Anagrams

• Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas

Source: Wiktionary

Stage, n. Etym: [OF. estage, F. étage, (assumed) LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Static.]

1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] Wyclif.

2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage. Pope. Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this stage of fools. Shak. Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring. Miton.

7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.

8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

9. A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles. A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road. Jeffrey. He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages. Smiles.

10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society. Macaulay.

11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." Cowper. I went in the sixpenny stage. Swift.

12. (Biol.)

Definition: One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage. Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.

– Stage carriage, a stagecoach.

– Stage door, the actor's and workmen's entrance to a theater.

– Stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is illuminated.

– Stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the stage of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.

– Stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for conveying passengers or goods.

– Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater, supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an aside. stage of the game, [Colloq.] stage n. 10.

Stage, v. t.

Definition: To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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