stage

Definitions of stage in various dictionaries:

noun - any distinct time period in a sequence of events

noun - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

noun - a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience

noun - the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')

noun - a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns

noun - a section or portion of a journey or course

noun - any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something

noun - a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

verb - perform (a play), especially on a stage

verb - 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