stage /stāj/

1. An elevated platform, esp for acting on
2. The theatre
3. Theatrical representation
4. The theatrical calling
5. Any scene or field of action
6. A place of rest on a journey or road
7. The portion of a journey between two such places
8. A fare stage (qv)
9. A point reached in, or a section of, life, development, or any process
10. A subdivision of a geological series or formation
11. One of the sections in a rocket jettisoned during flight
12. One of the elements in a complex piece of electronic equipment
13. (in a microscope, etc) the support for an object to be examined
14. A tier, shelf, floor, storey
15. A tiered structure for plants
16. A scaffold
17. A stagecoach

1. Relating to the stage, acting or the theatre
2. As conventionally represented on the stage (eg a stage rustic)

1. To represent or put on the stage
2. To contrive dramatically, organize and bring off

To travel by stages or by stagecoach

staged adjective

1. In storeys or tiers
2. Put on the stage

staˈger noun

1. Someone who has had much experience in anything, an old hand (old stager)
2. A stage horse
3. An actor (archaic)

staˈgery noun

Theatrical contrivances

staˈgily adverb

stagˈiness noun

staˈging noun

1. Scaffolding
2. Stagecoaching
3. Putting on the stage
4. The jettisoning of any of the stages of a rocket

staˈgy or staˈgey adjective

1. Savouring of the stage, acted, assumed, affected
2. Of a style or level of competence in acting such that the artificiality is apparent

stageˈcoach noun

Formerly, a coach that ran regularly with passengers from stage to stage

stageˈcoaching noun

stageˈcoachman noun

stageˈcraft noun

Skill in the technicalities of the theatre

stage direction noun

In a copy of a play, an instruction to the actor to do this or that

stageˈ-dive intransitive verb

To jump from the stage onto the crowd at a rock concert or similar venue

stageˈ-diver noun

stage door noun

The actors' entrance to a theatre

stage effect noun

Theatrical effect

stage fever noun

A passion to go on the stage

stage flower noun

A flower exhibited on a tiered stand

stage fright noun

Nervousness before an audience, esp for the first time (also figurative)

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