stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: stages
Etymology: From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.
Senses: examples: text: He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
text: Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
text: Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
"I though naked was sexy."
"Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
ref: 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights, page 66:
text: The Russians had promised to withdraw in three stages. One stage had been completed, and the railway between Shan-hai-kwan and Ying-k’ou (Newchang) had been returned, but all this meant was that the Russians had moved their troops from Liao-hsi, a region where they had few interests, to their major base at Liaotung.
ref: 2002, Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 588:
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
glosses: A phase.
examples: text: The first stage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upper stage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit.
glosses: One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
examples: text: The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
text: Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
text: Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
ref: 1829, Charles Sprague, Curiosity:
text: The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, Intentions:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
glosses: A floor or storey of a house.
glosses: A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
glosses: A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
examples: text: The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
text: In the 1880s he ran a stage that connected various interior towns with the coastal port.
text: I went in the sixpenny stage.
ref: 1711 April 14, letter to Stella, Jonathan Swift:
text: a parcel sent you by the stage
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
glosses: A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
examples: text: a stage of ten miles
text: A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.
ref: 1807, Francis Jeffrey, “Clarkson on Quakerism”, in The Edinburgh Review April 1807:
text: He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
ref: 1858, Samuel Smiles, Robert Stephenson, The Life of George Stephenson: Railway Engineer, page 356:
text: The Mount Vernon, favoured by a good stage of water, soon cleared the narrow Monongahela channel, passed the confluence, and headed down under full steam, […].
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 3, in The Purchase Price:
text: At present, however, in spite of vigorous efforts to increase through train working, the stage-by-stage movement of individual wagons remains the normal method of freight movement.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
examples: text: He placed the slide on the stage.
glosses: The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
examples: text: How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
text: Additionally, popular supporting characters make cameos on certain stages, such as in Smashville, where you'll find Tom Nook and other familiar faces from Animal Crossing.
ref: 2007 December 24, Chris Slate, “Get Ready to Smash”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 49:
topics: video-games
synonyms: level
glosses: A level; one of the areas making up the game.
examples: text: When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: Ere while of Muſick, and Ethereal mirth,
Wherewith the ſtage of Ayr and Earth did ring,
ref: c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 16:
text: Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
text: Paid media is the admission ticket to enter the big-time Washington stage.
ref: 2015, Gary Andres, Paul Hernnson, Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence, page 149:
glosses: A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
glosses: An internship.
examples: text: This way, we simply stretch the image of a monophonic sound across a wider area on the stereo stage and create an altogether bigger impression.
ref: 2013, Roey Izhaki, Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools, page 391:
glosses: The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
examples: text: In other professions in which men engage / (Said I to myself, said I), / The Army, the Navy, the Church and the Stage / (Said I to myself, said I)
ref: 1882 November 25 (first performance), W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, music, […] Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri, London: Chappell & Co., […], published [1885?], act I:
glosses: The profession of an actor.
Synonyms: sense: phase
word: tier
sense: phase
word: level
topics: video-games
word: level
topics: video-games
word: map
topics: video-games
word: area
topics: video-games
word: world
topics: video-games
word: track
topics: video-games
word: board
topics: video-games
word: zone
topics: video-games
word: phase
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from stage (noun)
word: all the world's a stage
sense: Terms derived from stage (noun)
word: anal stage
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word: assistant stage manager
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word: cage stage
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word: caveman stage
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word: center stage
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word: centre stage
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word: coaling stage
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word: early-stage
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word: exit stage left
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word: flood stage
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word: follicle stage
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word: group stage
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word: hold the stage
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word: key stage
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word: knockout stage
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word: landing stage
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word: late-stage capitalism
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word: late stage capitalism
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word: life stage
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word: main stage
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word: mirror stage
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word: multistage
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word: off-stage
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word: one-stage prothrombin time
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word: on-stage
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word: oral stage
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word: Prader stage
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word: rocket stage
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word: sage on a stage
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word: sage on the stage
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word: set the stage
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word: single-stage-to-orbit
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word: sound stage
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word: special stage
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word: stage ball
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word: stage bus
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word: stage business
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word: stage-by-stage
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word: stage carriage
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word: stage-coach
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word: stagecoach
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word: stage combat
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word: stage crew
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word: stage damager
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word: stage direction
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word: stage-dive
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word: stage dive
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word: stage diver
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word: stage diving
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word: stage-diving
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word: stage door
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word: stage-door Johnny
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word: stage fear
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word: stage fever
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word: stage flat
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word: stage fright
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word: stage-fright
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word: stage gay
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word: stage Johnny
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word: stage kiss
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word: stage left
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word: stage light
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word: stage magic
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word: stage magician
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word: stage-manage
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word: stage-managed
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word: stage manager
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word: stage micrometer
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word: stage mom
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word: stage mother
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word: stage name
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word: stage of the game
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word: stage-phoner
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word: stage plank
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word: stage play
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word: stage presence
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word: stage race
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word: stage right
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word: stage screw
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word: stage set
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word: stage setting
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word: stage-setty
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word: stage show
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word: stage-stricken
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word: stage wagon
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word: stage whisper
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word: stage-whisper
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word: staging area
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word: take the stage
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word: Tanner stage
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word: thrust stage
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word: transport stage
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word: tread the stage
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word: upper stage
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word: upper-stage
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word: waystage