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Stage

noun

1.

Any distinct time period in a sequence of events. Synonym: phase.

2.

A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. Synonyms: degree, level, point. "At what stage are the social sciences?"

3.

A large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience.

4.

The theater as a profession (usually 'the stage').

5.

A large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns. Synonym: stagecoach.

6.

A section or portion of a journey or course. Synonym: leg.

7.

Any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something. "It set the stage for peaceful negotiations"

8.

A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination. Synonym: microscope stage.

verb

1.

Perform (a play), especially on a stage. Synonyms: present, represent.

2.

Plan, organize, and carry out (an event). Synonym: arrange.

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"Stage" Quotes from Famous Books

... good-nature and muddled kindliness. The mistake of much of Carlyle's work is that it is too poignantly dramatic, and bristles with intention and significance; and he did not allow sufficiently for the crowd of vague supers who throng the background of the stage. Neither did he ever go about the world with his eyes open for general facts. Wherever he was, he was intensely observant, but he spent his days either in a fierce absorption of work, blind even to the sorrow and discomfort of his wife, or taking rapid tours to store ...

— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson

... a Kerothi would need only a touch of plastic surgery and some makeup to pass as an Earthman in a stage play. Close up, of course, the job would be much more difficult—as difficult as a Negro trying to disguise himself as a ...

— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett

... on the coming days, Shuddering to feel their shadow o'er thee creep; A path, thick-set with changes and decays, Slopes downward to the place of common sleep; And they who walked with thee in life's first stage, Leave one by one thy side, and, waiting near, Thou seest the sad companions of thy age— Dull love of rest, ...

— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant

... figure is the highest ever reached in the history of the Association, and if we could not look with faith beyond, it would be discouraging. But we cannot be despondent in view of the past. Discouragements have been incident in every stage of progress in this connection. In the old anti-slavery days there were times of almost hopeless discouragement. In the great struggle for the life of the nation and the emancipation of the slave there were days when only the bravest had hope. And in these ...

— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 2, February, 1896 • Various

... power of the United States upon a prosecution pending in a State court, yet there no more than here can the chief executive power rescue a prisoner from custody without an order of the proper tribunal directing his discharge. The precise stage of the proceedings at which such order may be made is a matter of municipal regulation exclusively, and not to be complained of by any other government. In cases of this kind a government becomes politically responsible only when its tribunals ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson

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