Stage ¹

Definition: A floor or story of a house.

Stage ²

Definition: An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.

Stage ³

Definition: A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.

Stage ⁴

Definition: A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

Stage ⁵

Definition: The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.

Stage ⁶

Definition: A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.

Stage ⁷

Definition: The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.

Stage ⁸

Definition: A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

Stage ⁹

Definition: 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; as, a stage of ten miles.

Stage ¹⁰

Definition: A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.

Stage ¹¹

Definition: A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.

Stage ¹²

Definition: One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.

Stage ¹³

Definition: To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

stage ¹⁴

Definition: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

stage ¹⁵

Definition: 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"

stage ¹⁶

Definition: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

stage ¹⁷

Definition: 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"

stage ¹⁸

Definition: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage''); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"

stage ¹⁹

Definition: 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"

stage ²⁰

Definition: 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?"

stage ²¹

Definition: 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"

stage ²²

Definition: plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

stage ²³

Definition: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello''"