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stage  audio  (stj) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. A raised and level floor or platform.
    1. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented.
    2. An area in which actors perform.
    3. The acting profession, or the world of theater. Used with the: The stage is her life.
  3. The scene of an event or of a series of events.
  4. A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.
  5. A scaffold for workers.
  6. A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.
  7. The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg: proceeded in easy stages.
  8. A stagecoach.
  9. A level or story of a building.
  10. The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point: at flood stage.
    1. A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process: the toddler stage of child development; the early stages of a disease.
    2. A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.
  12. One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.
  13. Geology A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.
  14. Electronics An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier.
VERB:
staged, stag·ing, stag·es
VERB:
tr.
  1. To exhibit or present on or as if on a stage: stage a boxing match.
  2. To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).
  3. To arrange and carry out: stage an invasion.
  4. Medicine To determine the extent or progression of (a cancer, for example).
VERB:
intr.
  1. To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.
  2. To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey: "tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw" (Frederick Forsyth).
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French estage, from Vulgar Latin *staticum, from Latin status, past participle of stre, to stand; see st- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
stageful(Noun)


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