stage

IPA: stˈeɪdʒ

noun

  • A phase.
  • (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
  • (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
  • A floor or storey of a house.
  • A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
  • A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
  • A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
  • (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
  • (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
  • (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
  • The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
  • (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
  • A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
  • (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
  • (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
  • The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
  • (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
  • To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
  • (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
  • (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
  • (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
  • (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
  • (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
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Examples of "stage" in Sentences

  • This perpetuation process is typical for the old growth stage.
  • The second stage is characterised by a period of vehement denial.
  • The period under which the idea takes root is the gestation stage.
  • The next level of the abstracting process is the inferential stage.
  • It is the second processing stage of the accessory olfactory system.
  • In the last stage of the process, the electronic market is introduced.
  • This early stage is known as the negative amortization or negam period.
  • The creation of the plan is an intermediate stage of the nursing process.
  • The Millstone Grit dates from the Namurian stage of the Carboniferous period.
  • The anxiety level hasn't reached the panic stage, but it's outpacing the Dow.

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