stage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stage	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for stage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stage n 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" Synonym(s): phase, stage 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?" Synonym(s): degree, level, stage, point 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" the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" 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" Synonym(s): stagecoach, stage a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" Synonym(s): stage, leg 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" a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination Synonym(s): stage, microscope stage v perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" Synonym(s): stage, present, represent plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" Synonym(s): stage, arrange
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stage \Stage\, n. [OF. estage, F. [82]tage, (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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stage \Stage\, v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. --Shak.