Etimology
From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead.
noun
stage (plural stages)
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.
Examples
He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
"They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear.""I though naked was sexy.""Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
The first stage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upper stage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit.
The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.
Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
I went in the sixpenny stage.
a parcel sent you by the stage
a stage of ten miles
A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.
He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
The Mount Vernon, favoured by a good stage of water, soon cleared the narrow Monongahela channel, passed the confluence, and headed down under full steam, […].
At present, however, in spite of vigorous efforts to increase through train working, the stage-by-stage movement of individual wagons remains the normal method of freight movement.
a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
He placed the slide on the stage.
Synonym: level
How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
Ere while of Muſick, and Ethereal mirth,Wherewith the ſtage of Ayr and Earth did ring,
Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
Paid media is the admission ticket to enter the big-time Washington stage.
This way, we simply stretch the image of a monophonic sound across a wider area on the stereo stage and create an altogether bigger impression.
Related words
synonyms
(phase): tier, level
(video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase
verb
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
(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.
Examples
The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
The workers staged a strike.
A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday.
We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
to stage data to be written at a later time
One method of documenting a wound is as follows: stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; describe the location anatomically; measure ulcer in centimeters ; […]
In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.
Related words
synonyms
(demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake
Etimology
Borrowed from French stage (“internship”).
noun
stage (plural stages)
(cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
Examples
It doesn’t matter that recent reporting on the stage economy of Copenhagen […] has revealed a pattern of abuse and dangerous working conditions for unpaid interns. In “The Bear,” the stage is a dream: Marcus’s tasks are simply to learn from a skilled but kind and patient mentor, to get out and about and feel inspired, and to come up with some new dishes of his own.
Related words
related terms
stagiaire
verb
stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)
(intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
Examples
Sydney Adamu : I'm Sydney. I called about the sous position, I'm staging today.Carmy Berzatto : Right. Shit, sorry. Yes. Yeah.