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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024on•stage (on′stāj′, ôn′-),USA pronunciation adv. - on or onto the stage (opposed to offstage):The director shouted, "Onstage, everybody!''
adj. - Show Businessof, pertaining to, or used in the acting area, or that part of the stage that is in view of the audience.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024stage /steɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., staged, stag•ing. n. [countable] - a step or degree in a process, development, or series:in the early stages of his career.
- a raised platform or floor, as for speakers.
- Show Businessthe platform on which the actors perform in a theater.
- Show Business the stage, [usually singular] the acting profession:All his life he wanted to be part of the stage.See on stage below.
- Transporta stagecoach.
v. [~ + object] - Show Businessto represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage:to stage a play.
- to plan, organize, or carry out, esp. for effect:Workers staged a one-day strike.
Idioms- Idioms by easy stages, gradually;
without hurry. - Idioms, Show Business on stage, [uncountable]
- performing, esp. as an actor:He was on stage for every show.
- in the area of the stage seen by the audience:The main figure in the play never appears on stage.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stage (stāj),USA pronunciation n., v., staged, stag•ing. n. - a single step or degree in a process;
a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series. - a raised platform or floor, as for speakers, performers, etc.
- Show Business[Theat.]
- the platform on which the actors perform in a theater.
- this platform with all the parts of the theater and all the apparatus back of the proscenium.
- Show Business the stage, the theater, esp. acting, as a profession:He plans to make the stage his career.
- Cinema, Show Business[Motion Pictures.]See sound stage.
- the scene of any action.
- Transporta stagecoach.
- a place of rest on a journey;
a regular stopping place of a stagecoach or the like, for the change of horses, mules, etc. - the distance between two places of rest on a journey;
each of the portions of a journey. - a portion or period of a course of action, of life, etc.:the adolescent stage of human development.
- [Entomol.]
- Insectsany one of the major time periods in the development of an insect, as the embryonic, larval, pupal, and imaginal stages.
- InsectsAlso called stadium. any one of the periods of larval growth between molts.
- Sociology[Econ., Sociol.]a major phase of the economic or sociological life of human beings or society:the patriarchal stage.
- Geologya division of stratified rocks corresponding to a single geologic age.
- Opticsthe small platform of a microscope on which the object to be examined is placed. See illus. under microscope.
- Radio and Televisionan element in a complex mechanism, as a tube and its accessory structures in a multiple amplifier.
- Rocketrya section of a rocket containing a rocket engine or cluster of rocket engines, usually separable from other such sections when its propellant is exhausted.
- by easy stages, working, traveling, etc., slowly, with frequent pauses;
unhurriedly, with many stops; gradually. - Show Business go on the stage, to become an actor, esp. in the theater:She knew from the age of 12 that she would go on the stage.
- hold the stage:
- Show Businessto continue to be produced, as a play or other theatrical production.
- to be the center of attention.
- Show Business on stage, performing, esp. as an actor.
v.t. - Show Businessto represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage:The drama class staged a play during Christmas vacation.
- Show Businessto furnish with a stage, staging, stage set, etc.
- Show Businessto write, direct, or produce (a play) with the action taking place as if in a specified locale or time:He staged the fantasy on Mars in the year 2500.
- to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), esp. for dramatic or public effect:Workers staged a one-day strike.
- to classify the natural progression of (a disease, esp. cancer).
v.i. - Show Businessto be suitable for presentation or performance on the stage:The script didn't stage well.
- to travel by stagecoach.
- Vulgar Latin *staticum standing place, equivalent. to stat(us) status + -icum, neuter of -icus -ic
- Old French estage (French étage)
- Middle English (noun, nominal) 1250–1300
stage′a•ble, adj. stage′a•bil′i•ty, stage′a•ble•ness, n. stage′a•bly, adv. - 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spot, setting, locale.
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