stage

noun stages

1. A phase. He is in the recovery stage of his illness.

   Similar: tier, level, lap

2. broadly 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. 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.
3. A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
4. A floor or storey of a house.
5. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
6. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
7. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service. The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
8. dated A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
9. 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. a stage of ten miles
10. The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
11. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing. He placed the slide on the stage.
12. A level; one of the areas making up the game. How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

    Similar: level

13. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene. When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
14. The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
15. Canada, Quebec An internship.
16. The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back. 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.
17. metonymically, uncountable, with definite article The profession of an actor. In other professions in which men engage / (Said I to myself, said I), / The Army, the Navy, the Church and the Stage / (Said I to myself, said I)

Similar: level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase

verb stages · staging · staged

1. transitive To produce on a stage, to perform a play. The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
2. transitive To arrange in a manner intended to deceive. The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.

   Similar: fake

3. transitive To furnish and decorate (a property) to make it more appealing to potential buyers. to stage a house or flat
4. transitive To orchestrate; to carry out. The workers staged a strike.
5. transitive To place in position to prepare for use. We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
6. transitive To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to. One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]
7. To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it. In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.
8. Canada, US, intransitive To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.

noun stages

1. An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques. 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

verb stages · staging · staged

1. intransitive To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant. I’ve been chosen to stage at Coloniál, the Michelin-starred restaurant that I will one day lie about running. Stage is restaurant-speak for free labor, but I’m unconcerned.

proper noun Stages

1. A surname.