stage

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'
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  microscope stage , leg , stagecoach , degree , level , point , phase , arrange , present , represent