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stage
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Noun
  • a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
  • 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
  • a section or portion of a journey or course
    • then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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?
  • 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
Verb
  • plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
    • the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
  • perform (a play), especially on a stage
    • we are going to stage `Othello'
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