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What's The Definition Of Stage?
[n] a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
[n] 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" [n] a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination [n] 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" [n] the theater as a profession (usually"the stage"); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" [n] 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" [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" [n] 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?" [v] plan, organize, and carry out (an event) [v] perform (a play), esp. on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stage: arrange | bring about | degree | leg | level | microscope stage | phase | point | present | represent | stagecoach Related Terms | Find terms related to Stage: See Also | acme | anal phase | anal stage | apogee | apron | backstage | chapter | climax | coach | coach-and-four | culmination | diakinesis | diplotene | dramatic art | dramatics | dramaturgy | elevation | end point | extent | fare-stage | fertile period | fertile phase | forestage | four-in-hand | generation | genital phase | genital stage | height | house | incubation | initiate | journey | journeying | latency period | latency phase | latency stage | left stage | leptotene | localise | localize | luteal phase | menstrual phase | mise en scene | offstage | oral phase | oral stage | pachytene | peak | period | period of time | phallic phase | phallic stage | phase | phase of cell division | pinnacle | pioneer | place | plane | platform | proscenium | quickening | re-create | resultant | right stage | safe period | scene | secretory phase | seedtime | set | setting | stage left | stage right | stage setting | standard of life | standard of living | state | state of the art | summit | superlative | tee up | theater | theater | theater stage | theatre | theatre | theatre stage | time period | top | travel | traveling | travelling | ultimacy | ultimateness | wing | zygotene Stage In Webster's Dictionary \Stage\, 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.
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.
Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
--Pope.
Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its
warped mirror to a gaping age. --C. Sprague.
6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable
affair occurs.
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this
stage of fools. --Shak.
Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air
and earth did ring. --Miton.
7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
placed to be viewed. See Illust. of {Microscope}.
8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
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.
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
road. --Jeffrey.
He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
horse performing the journey by easy stages.
--Smiles.
10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
in the progress of society. --Macaulay.
11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. ``A
parcel sent you by the stage.'' --Cowper.
I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift.
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; z[oe]a stage.
{Stage box}, a box close to the stage in a theater.
{Stage carriage}, a stagecoach.
{Stage door}, the actor's 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.
\Stage\, v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. --Shak. |
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