stage

Meanings

• any distinct time period in a sequence of events
  • "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
• a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
  • "at what stage are the social sciences?"
• a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
  • "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
• the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
  • "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
• a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
  • "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
• a section or portion of a journey or course
  • "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
• any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; --Shakespeare
  • "All the world's a stage"
  • "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
• a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
• perform (a play), especially on a stage
  • "we are going to stage `Othello'"
• plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
  • "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"

Synonyms

arrange, degree, leg, level, microscope stage, phase, point, present, represent, stagecoach