A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented.
An area in which actors perform.
The acting profession, or the world of theater. Used with the:The stage is her life.
A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process: the toddler stage of child development; the early stages of a disease.
A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.
The scene of an event or of a series of events.
A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.
A scaffold for workers.
A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.
The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg: proceeded in easy stages.
A stagecoach.
A level or story of a building.
The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point: at flood stage.
A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process: the toddler stage of child development; the early stages of a disease.
A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.
One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.
Geology A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.
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.
v.
staged, stag·ing, stag·es
v.
tr.
To exhibit or present on or as if on a stage: stage a boxing match.
To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).
To arrange and carry out: stage an invasion.
Medicine To determine the extent or progression of (a cancer, for example).
v.
intr.
To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.
To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey: "tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw"(Frederick Forsyth).
[Middle English, from Old French estage, from Vulgar Latin *staticum, from Latin status, past participle of stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.] stage'ful' n.
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