stage
stage
(stāj) noun
1.
A raised and level floor or platform.
2.
a. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented. b. An area in which actors perform. c. The acting profession, or the world of theater. Used with the: The stage is her life.
3. The scene of an event or a series of events.
4. A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.
5. A scaffold for workers.
6. A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.
7. The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg: proceeded in easy stages.
8. A stagecoach.
9. A level or story of a building.
10. The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point: at flood stage.
11. a. A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process, especially a step in development: the toddler stage. b. A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.
12. One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.
13. Geology. A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.
14. Electronics. An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier.
verb
staged, staging, stages
verb
, transitive
1.
To exhibit or present on or as if on a stage: stage a boxing match.
2.
To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).
3.
To arrange and carry out: stage an invasion.
verb
, intransitive
1.
To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.
2.
To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey: "tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw" (Frederick Forsyth).
[Middle English, from Old French estage, from Vulgar Latin *staticum, from Latin status past participle of stāre, to stand.]
stage
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