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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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