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US
/ˈsteɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /stˈeɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /stˈeɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
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perform (a play), especially on a stage
we are going to stage `Othello' -
plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
NOUN
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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 small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
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the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage -
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
All the world's a stage -
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 -
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
at what stage are the social sciences?
a remarkable degree of frankness -
a section or portion of a journey or course
then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise -
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
How To Use stage In A Sentence
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
- New members are always welcome, irrespective of what stage of bereavement they are at.
- Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
- Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
- The development includes eight sound stages, production facilities, digital facilities and outdoor back lot areas.
- If we posit a voiceless spirant value for Uralic *x by this stage anyway, over in PFP the closest equivalent would be śexćim. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
- The series has been optioned twice by film companies but no one has ever gotten as far as the script stage. Marcia Muller talks about her heroine Sharon McCone
