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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stage \Stage\, n. [OF. estage, F. ['e]tage, (assumed) LL staticum from L. stare to stand See {Stand}, and cf {Static}.] 1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] --Wyclif. 2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like 3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work or the like a scaffold; a staging. 4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. 5. The floor for scenic performances; hence the theater; the playhouse; hence also the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stage \Stage\, v. t. To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stage n 1: 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" [syn: {phase}] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: {degree}, {level}, {point}] 3: 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" 4: (usually "the stage"); the theater as a profession; "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" 5: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations" 6: 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" [syn: {stagecoach}] 7: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Carribean cruise" [syn: {leg}] 8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination [syn: {microscope stage}] v 1: perform (a play), esp. on a stage; "we are going to stage Othello" [syn: {present}] 2: plan organize, and carry out (an event) [syn: {bring about}, {arrange}]
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