Stage meaning

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The definition of a stage is a platform or an area of raised floor.

An example of a stage is what dancers dance on during a professional performance.

noun

To present, represent, or exhibit on or as on a stage.

verb

A level, floor, or story.

noun

The distance or a part of a route between two stopping places; leg of a journey.

noun

A raised and level floor or platform.

noun

A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.

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A platform or dock.

noun

A scaffold for workmen.

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A place where a stop is made on a journey, esp., formerly, a regular stopping point for a stagecoach.

noun

A period in the course of a disease.

noun

A particular step, phase, or position in a developmental process.

noun

A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.

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To be suitable for presentation on the stage.

A play that stages well.

verb

One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.

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(geology) A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.

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(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.

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To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).

verb

To arrange and carry out.

Stage an invasion.

verb

(medicine) To determine the extent or progression of (a cancer, for example).

verb

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

noun

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

The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.

noun

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

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(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.

A stage of ten miles.

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

A 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.

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

He placed the slide on the stage.

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

How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

noun

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

noun

To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".

verb

To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.

verb

(Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.

verb

To cause to pause or wait at a designated location.

We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.

To stage data to be written at a later time.

verb

To stage is defined as to arrange, present or exhibit something.

An example of to stage is decorating the inside of a house that's for sale for an open house.

verb

The scene of an event or of a series of events.

noun

A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.

noun

A scaffold for workers.

noun

The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg.

Proceeded in easy stages.

noun

A stagecoach.

noun

A level or story of a building.

noun

The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point.

At flood stage.

noun

To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.

A play that stages well.

verb

To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey.

verb

Stagecoach.

noun

A shelf attached to a microscope for holding the object to be viewed.

noun

A period, level, or degree in a process of development, growth, or change.

The larval stage of an insect.

noun

Any of two or more propulsion units used, in sequence, as the launch vehicle of a missile, spacecraft, etc.: when no longer operational or useful, the lower stages usually separate and fall back to earth.

noun

(electronics) A component, circuit, etc. that does one specific job, as amplification, while being a part of a larger, more complex system.

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(geol.) A subdivision of a series of stratified rocks consisting of the rocks laid down during a geologic age.

noun

To determine the extent or progression of a disease, especially a cancer.

verb

A phase.

He is in the recovery stage of his illness.

Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.

noun

The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.

The band returned to the stage to play an encore.

noun

A floor or storey of a house.

noun

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

noun

by easy stages

traveling only a short distance at a time
working or acting unhurriedly, with stops for rest

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by easy stages

Origin of stage

Middle English from Old French estage from Vulgar Latin staticum from Latin status past participle of stāre to stand stā- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“story of a building, performance stage, floor, loft"), from Vulgar Latin *stāticum (“standing-place"), from Latin stāre (“to stand"). Cognate with Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place"). More at stead.

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