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English

Etymology

  • Via and from Romance *staticum from stare


Pronunciation


Noun

  1. a phase
  2. : ''He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
  3. The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.
  4. : ''The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
  5. Short for stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers
  6. : ''The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
  7. the number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
  8. : a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
  9. The place on a microscope where the slide is placed
  10. : He placed the slide on the stage.


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Translations

(electronics) the number of an electronic circuit’s block

  • Japanese: 段 (dan)


Verb

  1. To produce on a stage.
  2. : The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
  3. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
  4. : The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
  5. To pause or wait at a designated location.
  6. : We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.


Translations

  • Japanese: 上演する (jōen-suru)
  • Persian: (be-sahneh avardan)

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Dutch

Noun

stage (plural stages)

  1. probation, induction


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French

Noun

stage m

  1. probation, induction


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Category:French nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), n. [OF. estage, F. ['e]tage, (assumed)
LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf.
Static.]
1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play
be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
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3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work,
or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
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4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
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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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Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the
stage. --Pope.
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Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C.
Sprague.
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6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable
affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on
the public stage.
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When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --Shak.
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Music and ethereal mirth
Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
--Miton.
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7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
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8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
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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.
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A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
road. --Jeffrey.
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He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
horse performing the journey by easy stages.
--Smiles.
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10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
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Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
in the progress of society. --Macaulay.
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11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A
parcel sent you by the stage." --Cowper. [Obsolescent]
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I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift.
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12. (Biol.) 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.
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Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.

Stage carriage, a stagecoach.

Stage door, the actors' 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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), v. t.
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display
publicly. --Shak.
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WordNet stage
n 1: 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" [syn: phase]
2: 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?" [syn:
degree, level, point]
3: 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"
4: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early
movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the
contemporary stage"
5: 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"
6: 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" [syn: stagecoach]
7: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we
embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
[syn: leg]
8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is
mounted for examination [syn: microscope stage]
v 1: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to
stage `Othello'" [syn: present, represent]
2: plan, organize, and carry out (an event) [syn: bring about,
arrange]
Moby Dictionary
Broadway , L , R , acting , acting area , agora , amphitheater , apron ,
apron stage , arena , athletic field , auditorium , autobus , back ,
backdrop , background , backstage , balcony , band , band shell ,
bandstand , be a gas , be a hit , bear garden , bed , bedding , belt ,
bill , board , boards , bomb , bowl , boxing ring , bridge , bring out ,
bull ring , burlesque , bus , cab , campus , canvas , carnival , caste ,
catafalque , chartered bus , circus , class , cockpit , coliseum ,
colosseum , concoct , condition , contrive , couche , coulisse , course ,
dais , day , deck , devise , diligence , distance , division , do , dock ,
double-decker , drama , dramatize , dressing room , echafaudage ,
echelon , emplacement , entertainment industry , estrade , execute ,
exhibit , fail , fake , fateful moment , feature , field , flies , floor ,
flop , fly floor , fly gallery , footing , footlights , forestage ,
forum , gallery , give , grade , greenroom , grid , gridiron , ground ,
gym , gymnasium , hack , hall , headline , heliport , hierarchy ,
hinterland , hippodrome , hired car , hour , hustings , instant ,
interval , jitney , juncture , kairos , landing , landing pad ,
landing stage , lap , launching pad , layer , ledge , legit ,
legitimate stage , level , lightboard , lists , locale , mail coach ,
make a hit , make up , manipulate , marketplace , mat , measures ,
melodramatize , milieu , minute , mise-en-scene , moment ,
moment of truth , motor coach , motorbus , mount , notch , off Broadway ,
off-off-Broadway , omnibus , open , open a show , open forum ,
orchestra , orchestra pit , order , organize , originate , overlayer ,
overstory , palaestra , parade ground , perform , performing area ,
period , phase , pit , place , platform , play , playland , podium , point ,
position , post coach , power structure , precedence , precinct ,
pregnant moment , premiere , present , preview , prize ring , produce ,
proscenium , proscenium stage , psychological moment , public square ,
pulpit , purlieu , put on , range , rank , rate , rating , rear ,
repertory drama , ring , rostrum , rung , scaffold , scaffolding ,
scenarize , scene , scene of action , scenery , seam , season ,
set the stage , setting , shelf , shell , show , show biz ,
show business , site , situation , soapbox , space , span , spell ,
sphere , spot , squared circle , stadium , stage left , stage right ,
stage set , stage setting , stage world , stagecoach , stagedom ,
stageland , staging , standing , star , station , status , step ,
step terrace , stock , story , stratum , strawhat , strawhat circuit ,
stretch , stump , substratum , succeed , summer stock , superstratum ,
switchboard , taxi , taxicab , terrace , terrain , the boards ,
the footlights , the scenes , the stage , the theater , theater ,
theater world , theatricalize , theatromania , theatrophobia ,
thickness , tier , tilting ground , tiltyard , time , time lag , topsoil ,
tribunal , tribune , trump up , try out , underlayer , understory ,
understratum , variety , vaudeville , walk , while , wings ,
wrestling ring , zone


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