stage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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video-games
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.
Inflected forms:
form: stages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: staging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: staged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: staged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A phase.
pos: noun
examples: He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
"They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
"I though naked was sexy."
"Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
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.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
gloss: A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
pos: noun
examples: The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.
Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
gloss: A floor or storey of a house.
pos: noun
gloss: A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
pos: noun
gloss: A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
pos: noun
gloss: A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
pos: noun
examples: The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
In the 1880s he ran a stage that connected various interior towns with the coastal port.
I went in the sixpenny stage.
a parcel sent you by the stage
gloss: A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: a stage of ten miles
A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.
He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
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, […].
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.
gloss: The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
pos: noun
examples: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
gloss: The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
pos: noun
examples: He placed the slide on the stage.
gloss: A level; one of the areas making up the game.
pos: noun
examples: How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
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.
gloss: A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
pos: noun
examples: When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
Ere while of Muſick, and Ethereal mirth,
Wherewith the ſtage of Ayr and Earth did ring,
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.
Paid media is the admission ticket to enter the big-time Washington stage.
gloss: The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
pos: noun
gloss: An internship.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Quebec
gloss: The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The profession of an actor.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: 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)
gloss: To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
gloss: To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
pos: verb
examples: The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
gloss: To orchestrate; to carry out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The workers staged a strike.
A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday.
But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
gloss: To place in position to prepare for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
to stage data to be written at a later time
gloss: To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]
gloss: To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
pos: verb
examples: In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.
gloss: To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
Synonyms: level
map
area
world
track
board
zone
phase
Derived words: all the world's a stage
anal stage
assistant stage manager
autostage
backstage
B-stage
cage stage
caveman stage
centerstage
center stage
centre stage
coaling stage
cryostage
destage
downstage
early-stage
endstage
exit stage left
flood stage
follicle stage
forestage
frontstage
group stage
hold the stage
interstage
key stage
knockout stage
landing stage
late-stage capitalism
late stage capitalism
life stage
main stage
mainstage
metastage
midstage
ministage
mirror stage
misstage
multistage
multistages
offstage
off-stage
one-stage prothrombin time
on-stage
onstage
oral stage
overstage
photostage
Prader stage
restage
rocket stage
sage on a stage
sage on the stage
set the stage
single-stage-to-orbit
sound stage
special stage
stageable
stage ball
stagebound
stage bus
stage business
stage-by-stage
stage carriage
stagecoach
stage-coach
stage combat
stagecraft
stage crew
stage damager
stage design
stage direction
stage dive
stagedive
stage-dive
stage diver
stage-diving
stage diving
stagedom
stage door
stagedoor
stage-door Johnny
stage fear
stage fever
stage flat
stage fright
stage-fright
stageful
stage gay
stagehand
stagehead
stagehouse
stage Johnny
stage kiss
stageland
stage left
stageless
stage light
stagelike
stagely
stage magic
stage magician
stageman
stage-manage
stage-managed
stage manager
stagemanship
stage micrometer
stage mom
stage mother
stage name
stage of the game
stage-phoner
stage plank
stage play
stageplay
stageplayer
stageplaying
stage presence
stager
stage race
stage right
stagery
stagescape
stage screw
stagese
stage set
stage setting
stage-setty
stage show
stageside
stage-stricken
stagestruck
stage wagon
stagewear
stage whisper
stage-whisper
stagewide
stagewise
stageworthy
stagewright
staging area
stagy
substage
take the stage
Tanner stage
thrust stage
transport stage
tread the stage
understage
unstage
upper stage
upper-stage
upstage
waystage
hot-stage
Translations:
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vītā
lang: Bulgarian
word: дилижанс
roman: diližans
lang: Finnish
word: vaunut
lang: French
word: calèche
lang: Greek
word: ταχυδρομική άμαξα
roman: tachydromikí ámaxa
lang: Russian
word: дилижа́нс
roman: diližáns
lang: Spanish
word: calesa
lang: Spanish
word: diligencia
lang: Finnish
word: pysäyttää