Definitions of stage in various dictionaries:
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any distinct time period in a sequence of events
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a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
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a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
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the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
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a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
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a section or portion of a journey or course
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any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
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a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
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perform (a play), especially on a stage
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plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
A raised and level floor or platform.
A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented.
An area in which actors perform.
The acting profession, or the world of theater.
The scene of an event or a series of events.
A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.
A scaffold for workers.
A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.
The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg: proceeded in easy stages.
A stagecoach.
A level or story of a building.
The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point: at flood stage.
A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process, especially a step in development: the toddler stage.
A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.
One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.
A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.
An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier.
To exhibit or present on or as if on a stage: stage a boxing match.
To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).
To arrange and carry out: stage an invasion.
To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.
To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey: “tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw” (Frederick Forsyth).
verb - to produce for public view