English to English
stage
(st/eI//dZ/
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noun (n)
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events(noun.time)Example:
We are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected.
source: wordnet30 - a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience(noun.artifact)Example:
He clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box.
source: wordnet30 - the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')(noun.communication)Example:
An early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage.
source: wordnet30 - a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns(noun.artifact)Example:
We went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles.
source: wordnet30 - a section or portion of a journey or course(noun.act)Example:
Then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise.
source: wordnet30 - any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something(noun.location)Example:
All the world's a stage.
It set the stage for peaceful negotiations.
source: wordnet30 - a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- A floor or story of a house.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)(verb.creation)Example:
The neighboring tribe staged an invasion.
source: wordnet30 - To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.(verb)source: webster1913