A stage is a certain phase, like the toddler stage, when kids learn to walk and talk. Another kind of stage is a platform for a performance, although according to Shakespeare, “All the world's a stage.”
A floor or story of a house.
Noun
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
Noun
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"
Noun
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
Noun
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"
Noun
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage''); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
Noun
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"
Noun
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?"
Noun
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"
Verb
plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
Verb
perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello''"
n.
A floor or story of a house.
n.
An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be
performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
n.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or
the like; a scaffold; a staging.
n.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
n.
The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic
compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
n.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair
occurs.
n.
The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed
to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
n.
A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house;
a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
n.
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.
n.
A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
n.
A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
n.
One of several marked phases or periods in the development
and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa
stage; zoea stage.
v. t.
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display
publicly.
Stage
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.6.
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this stage of fools.
Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.7.
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road.
He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages.10.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.11.
I went in the sixpenny stage.12.
Stage
A floor or story of a house.
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
Usage Examples
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
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Other Usage ExamplesA screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
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