Word: stage Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /steɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A phase. Example: He is in the recovery stage of his illness. Example: Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage. 2. 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. Labels: broadly Example: 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. 3. A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. Example: The band returned to the stage to play an encore. Example: Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage. 4. A floor or storey of a house. 5. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging. 6. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. 7. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service. Example: The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies. Example: In the 1880s he ran a stage that connected various interior towns with the coastal port. 8. A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. Labels: dated 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. Labels: dated Example: a stage of ten miles Example: A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road. 10. The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. Example: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter 11. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing. Example: He placed the slide on the stage. 12. A level; one of the areas making up the game. Example: How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage? Example: 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. 13. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene. Example: When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools. Example: Ere while of Muſick, and Ethereal mirth, Wherewith the ſtage of Ayr and Earth did ring, 14. The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale. 15. An internship. Labels: Canada, Quebec 16. The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back. Example: 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. 17. The profession of an actor. Labels: metonymically, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: 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)