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English Dictionary: stage |
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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
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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.
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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.
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