'Stage' definitions:
Definition of 'stage'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: phase, stage]
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?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point]
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
The theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
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" [syn: stagecoach, stage]
noun
A section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn: stage, leg]
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 small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination [syn: stage, microscope stage]
verb
Perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent]
verb
Plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" [syn: stage, arrange]
Definition of 'Stage'
From: GCIDE
- Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stage'
From: GCIDE
- Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C. Sprague. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on the public stage. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring. --Miton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
- He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages. --Smiles. [1913 Webster]
- 10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. [1913 Webster]
- Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." --Cowper. [Obsolescent] [1913 Webster]
- I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 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; zoea stage. [1913 Webster]
- Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.
- Stage carriage, a stagecoach.
- Stage door, the actors' 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- acting area,
- agora,
- amphitheater,
- apron,
- apron stage,
- arena,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- autobus,
- back,
- backdrop,
- background,
- backstage,
- balcony,
- band,
- band shell,
- bandstand,
- be a gas,
- be a hit,
- bear garden,
- bed,
- bedding,
- belt,
- bill,
- board,
- boards,
- bomb,
- bowl,
- boxing ring,
- bridge,
- bring out,
- Broadway,
- bull ring,
- burlesque,
- bus,
- cab,
- campus,
- canvas,
- carnival,
- caste,
- catafalque,
- chartered bus,
- circus,
- class,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- concoct,
- condition,
- contrive,
- couche,
- coulisse,
- course,
- dais,
- day,
- deck,
- devise,
- diligence,
- distance,
- division,
- do,
- dock,
- double-decker,
- drama,
- dramatize,
- dressing room,
- echafaudage,
- echelon,
- emplacement,
- entertainment industry,
- estrade,
- execute,
- exhibit,
- fail,
- fake,
- fateful moment,
- feature,
- field,
- flies,
- floor,
- flop,
- fly floor,
- fly gallery,
- footing,
- footlights,
- forestage,
- forum,
- gallery,
- give,
- grade,
- greenroom,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- ground,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hack,
- hall,
- headline,
- heliport,
- hierarchy,
- hinterland,
- hippodrome,
- hired car,
- hour,
- hustings,
- instant,
- interval,
- jitney,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- L,
- landing,
- landing pad,
- landing stage,
- lap,
- launching pad,
- layer,
- ledge,
- legit,
- legitimate stage,
- level,
- lightboard,
- lists,
- locale,
- mail coach,
- make a hit,
- make up,
- manipulate,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- measures,
- melodramatize,
- milieu,
- minute,
- mise-en-scene,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- motor coach,
- motorbus,
- mount,
- notch,
- off Broadway,
- off-off-Broadway,
- omnibus,
- open,
- open a show,
- open forum,
- orchestra,
- orchestra pit,
- order,
- organize,
- originate,
- overlayer,
- overstory,
- palaestra,
- parade ground,
- perform,
- performing area,
- period,
- phase,
- pit,
- place,
- platform,
- play,
- playland,
- podium,
- point,
- position,
- post coach,
- power structure,
- precedence,
- precinct,
- pregnant moment,
- premiere,
- present,
- preview,
- prize ring,
- produce,
- proscenium,
- proscenium stage,
- psychological moment,
- public square,
- pulpit,
- purlieu,
- put on,
- R,
- range,
- rank,
- rate,
- rating,
- rear,
- repertory drama,
- ring,
- rostrum,
- rung,
- scaffold,
- scaffolding,
- scenarize,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- seam,
- season,
- set the stage,
- setting,
- shelf,
- shell,
- show,
- show biz,
- show business,
- site,
- situation,
- soapbox,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- sphere,
- spot,
- squared circle,
- stadium,
- stage left,
- stage right,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- stage world,
- stagecoach,
- stagedom,
- stageland,
- staging,
- standing,
- star,
- station,
- status,
- step,
- step terrace,
- stock,
- story,
- stratum,
- strawhat,
- strawhat circuit,
- stretch,
- stump,
- substratum,
- succeed,
- summer stock,
- superstratum,
- switchboard,
- taxi,
- taxicab,
- terrace,
- terrain,
- the boards,
- the footlights,
- the scenes,
- the stage,
- the theater,
- theater,
- theater world,
- theatricalize,
- theatromania,
- theatrophobia,
- thickness,
- tier,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- time,
- time lag,
- topsoil,
- tribunal,
- tribune,
- trump up,
- try out,
- underlayer,
- understory,
- understratum,
- variety,
- vaudeville,
- walk,
- while,
- wings,
- wrestling ring,
- zone
Words containing 'Stage'
- Stagely,
- Staging,
- in stages,
- staged,
- Landing stage,
- Stacking stage,
- Stage box,
- Stage carriage,
- Stage director,
- Stage door,
- Stage fright,
- Stage lights,
- Stage manager,
- Stage micrometer,
- Stage of incubation,
- Stage wagon,
- Stage whisper,
- To tread the stage,
- anal stage,
- center stage,
- centre stage,
- final stage,
- genital stage,
- in small stages,
- latency stage,
- left stage,
- microscope stage,
- oral stage,
- outdoor stage,
- phallic stage,
- right stage,
- stage business,
- stage crew,
- stage dancing,
- stage direct,
- stage direction,
- stage effect,
- stage left,
- stage name,
- stage presence,
- stage right,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- stage show,
- stage technician,
- staging area,
- take stage,
- take the stage,
- theater stage,
- theatre stage,
- thrust stage,
- Stage-struck,
- fare-stage