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Definition of Stage
1. Verb. Perform (a play), especially on a stage. "Did he stage his major works over a short period of time?"; "We are going to stage `Othello'"
Category relationships: Performing Arts
Generic synonyms: Re-create
Specialized synonyms: Localise, Localize, Place, Set
Derivative terms: Presentment, Representation, Stager, Staging
2. Noun. 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"
Specialized synonyms: Diakinesis, Diplotene, Leptotene, Pachytene, Phase Of Cell Division, Zygotene, Anal Phase, Anal Stage, Genital Phase, Genital Stage, Latency Period, Latency Phase, Latency Stage, Oral Phase, Oral Stage, Phallic Phase, Phallic Stage, Chapter, Incubation, Fertile Period, Fertile Phase, Menstrual Phase, Musth, Luteal Phase, Secretory Phase, Generation, Apogee, Culmination, Seedtime, Safe Period
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Derivative terms: Phase
3. Verb. Plan, organize, and carry out (an event). "The neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
Generic synonyms: Initiate, Pioneer
Specialized synonyms: Dogfight, Tee Up, Phase
Derivative terms: Stager
4. Noun. A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. "At what stage are the social sciences?"
Generic synonyms: State
Specialized synonyms: Ladder, Acme, Elevation, Height, Meridian, Peak, Pinnacle, Summit, Superlative, Tiptop, Top, Extent, End Point, Resultant, Standard Of Life, Standard Of Living, Plane, State Of The Art, Ultimacy, Ultimateness, Quickening, Climax
5. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Platform
Group relationships: House, Theater, Theatre
Terms within: Upstage, Right Stage, Stage Right, Left Stage, Stage Left
6. Noun. The theater as a profession (usually 'the stage'). "An early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
Derivative terms: Stagey, Stagy
7. Noun. 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"
8. Noun. A section or portion of a journey or course. "Then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
Generic synonyms: Travel, Traveling, Travelling
Group relationships: Journey, Journeying
Specialized synonyms: Fare-stage
9. Noun. Any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something. "It set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
10. Noun. A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.
Definition of Stage
1. n. A floor or story of a house.
2. v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
Definition of Stage
1. Noun. A phase. ¹
2. Noun. The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies. ¹
3. Noun. Abbreviated form of stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers. ¹
4. Noun. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. ¹
5. Noun. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing. ¹
6. Noun. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game. ¹
7. Noun. ¹
8. Verb. To produce on a stage, to perform a play. ¹
9. Verb. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. ¹
10. Verb. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out. ¹
11. Verb. To pause or wait at a designated location. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stage
1. to produce for public view [v STAGED, STAGING, STAGES]
Medical Definition of Stage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stage
Literary usage of Stage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A longitudinal section of stage, built as a trussed bridge so that it can be taken
... That space of the stage from the curtain line down to the footlights. ..."
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