Dictionary Definition
stage
Noun
1 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]
2 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, point]
3 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"
4 the theater as a profession (usually `the
stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of
the contemporary stage"
5 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"
6 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]
7 a section or portion of a journey or course;
"then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
[syn: leg]
8 a small platform on a microscope where the
specimen is mounted for examination [syn: microscope
stage]
Verb
1 perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we
are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: present, represent]
2 plan, organize, and carry out (an event) [syn:
bring
about, arrange]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- Via and from Romance *staticum from stare
Pronunciation
- stedʒ, steɪdʒ
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Noun
- a phase
- He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
- The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon
which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.
- The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
- Short for stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to
carry passengers
- The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
- the number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter,
an amplifier, etc.
- a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
- The place on a microscope where the slide is placed
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
phase
theatre
- Arabic:
- Catalan: escenari,
- Chinese: 舞台 (wǔtái)
- Czech: jeviště
- Dutch: toneel, podium
- Finnish: näyttämö
- French: scène
- German: Bühne
- Hebrew: במה
- Hungarian: színpad
- Italian: scena
- Japanese: 舞台 (butai)
- Korean: 무대 (mudae)
- Persian: (sahneh)
- Polish: scena
- Portuguese: palco
- Russian: сцена (stséna)
- Serbian: pozornica , kazalnica
- Slovene: oder
- Spanish: escenario
- Swedish: platform
- Turkish: sahne
Short for stagecoach
- French: calèche
(electronics) the number of an electronic
circuit’s block
Verb
- To produce on a stage.
- The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
- To pause or wait at a designated location.
- We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
Translations
to produce on a stage
- Dutch: opvoeren
- Finnish: esittää
- German: inszenieren
- Japanese: 上演する (jōen-suru)
- Persian: (be-sahneh avardan)
to demonstrate in a deceptive manner
- Dutch: ensceneren
- French: enscener
- German: inszenieren
Dutch
Noun
stage (plural stages)Related terms
French
Noun
stage mRelated terms
Extensive Definition
Stage(s) may refer to:
- Sliding Down the Firepole (album), a 1978 album by Dick Burns
- Stages (album), several albums by this name
- Stages (song), a song by ZZ Top
- Stage (band), Ryan Star's first band
- Stage (bicycle race), part of a multi-day road event
- Stage (geology) or faunal stage, a unit in the geological timescale
- Stage (Great White album), a 1996 album by the band Great White
- Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions
- Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "Stage"
- Stage Stores Inc., a department store company
- The Stage, a weekly British newspaper
- Stages, a book and DVD by Britney Spears
- Stage, a video game level
- Stage (Keller Williams album), a 2004 album by Keller Williams.
See also
stage in German: Bühne
stage in Esperanto: Scenejo
stage in French: Stage (homonymie)
stage in Dutch: Podium
stage in Japanese: ステージ
stage in Simple English: Stage
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Broadway, L, R, 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, 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, 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, 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