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stage English

Meaning stage meaning

What does stage mean?
Definitions in simple English

stage Noun

— a high floor where some people perform while other people watch The actors performed on the stage while the audience watched. — a vehicle, especially a horse-drawn coach, usually stagecoach The stage arrived in Dodge City with Lola Montez on board. We took a ride on the stagecoach at the amusement park. — a phase or level The first stage in our trip to the moon will be the blast off. Have you completed the first stage in your training?

stage Verb

— to put or "mount" a work on the stage This producer stages shows around the world. The producers will stage the new musical in New York, London, and Toronto. The show was staged in Montreal before it opened in New York. Producers are staging the show in several cities.

stage

— noun 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 — noun (= degree) 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? — noun 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 — verb perform (a play), especially on a stage we are going to stage 'Othello' — noun the theater as a profession (usually 'the stage') an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage — verb plan, organize, and carry out (an event) the neighboring tribe staged an invasion — noun a section or portion of a journey or course then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise — noun 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 — noun 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 — noun a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

Synonyms stage synonyms

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stage English » English

phase platform period step level degree scene point grade leg theatre scaffold present epoch arena theater season rostrum era term stop station stand staging show represent raised platform put on produce play organize microscope stage hold dais boards arrange time stagecoach stadium pulpit provoke order gradation frame chapter cause to take place cause age act wreak

Topics stage topics

What do people use stage to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Drama
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
Universe, creation Animal

Animal life cycle
Person Life

Stage of life
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Nervous
States Time Aspectual time

Once
Grammar Name

Name of a person

Conjugation stage conjugation

How do you conjugate stage?

stage · verb

Examples stage examples

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Simple sentences

Have you ever heard her sing on the stage?
Yesterday, we finished constructing the new stage.
Tom walked off the stage.
Tom usually doesn't eat anything before he goes on stage.
It is still in the testing stage.
The actor went up in his lines on the stage.
The actor was on the stage for most of the play.
There was hardly anyone who didn't laugh when the singer fell off the stage.
The man dancing on the stage is my uncle.
What did John sing on the stage?
Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.
These pillars support the stage.
I can't see the stage well from this seat.
I had stage fright at first, but I got over it quickly.
The conductor appeared on the stage.
That actress made three entrances onto the stage.
The actress greeted her fans from the stage.
The baby is now at the stage of talking.
The war had entered its final stage.

Movie subtitles

The virus probably is in a vegetative stage.
A culture reasserting itself on the world stage.
I have a reoccurrence of stage 3 metastatic breast cancer, so what are the odds I'll be here.
At this stage, no.
Oh, he'd gone by that stage.
CRIES Yes, all right, I helped him stage his own death.
Why didn't you stage it as a suicide pact?
I didn't stage anything!
She said I could do the article if I used her stage name.
Montfleury, idol of the Parisian stage.
I want to stage a few Bolshevik atrocities for the American idiot.
I shall be at the stage door.
My place is on the stage next to mine.
Get on stage!
Well, it looks as if our lead actor has just taken the stage.
It might be advisable to stage an offensive for him in the morning.
We will be delighted if we could stage it.
The audience was on both sides of the stage.
Following that, a diction professor for 1 month, and, temporarily, assistant stage manager at the Folies Montmartre.
You're not on stage.
He attacked me on stage.
In fact, they had reached a most advanced stage.
And out upon the stage stepped this princess. and she looked more beautiful than ever. She was beautiful!
I could earn that money by going back to the stage.
I won't have you go back to the stage.
I'm asking you, what's going on? It has already been announced that we're entering the third stage for war preparations.
I have a reoccurrence of stage 3 metastatic breast cancer, so what are the odds I'll be here. By Christmas?
Final stage.
And out upon the stage stepped this princess. and she looked more beautiful than ever.
And then you saw Mummy on the stage and she was very beautiful.
She still has her stage fright.
It's not stage fright. It's something more.
She's on the stage.
And if you could find a way of getting DeBrion off the stage beforehand so that I could be alone, I think it'd be much more effective.
Mary Bernard, the stage name, you know.
Oh, she wants to go on the stage, I suppose.

News and current affairs

The confederation I advocate would thus constitute an intermediate stage (lasting five or ten years), at the end of which Kosovo is likely to become fully independent.
Concentration of media ownership and control further fuels popular mistrust, setting the stage for citizen investigation to enter the vacuum.
The agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: how will we divide up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
The war in Afghanistan was never just an Afghan civil war; rather, for decades the country has been a stage of regional conflicts and hegemonic struggles.
With the final stage of the World Cup approaching, now is a good opportunity for a mid-tournament appraisal.
More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al-Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.
During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.
Spent wisely, however, these stimulus packages could trigger far-reaching and transformational trends, setting the stage for a more sustainable, urgently needed Green Economy for the twenty-first century.
These companies are uniquely placed to move new ideas and technologies into early-stage demonstration projects, thereby accelerating global learning cycles.
The situation in the Mediterranean region is at a more advanced stage.
My view is that the problem would fix itself easily if only the Republican Party of Dwight D. Eisenhower could stage a comeback (though without Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy).
But the heady glow of America's return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region's principal security anchor in the face of China's strategic ambitions.
While product markets have held center stage in the creation of the single European market, services continue to be fragmented by national regulatory, anti-competitive practices.
The defensiveness of Jews and the uneasy silence of their friends mean that the stage of public debate is open for those who actually are anti-Semitic, though they confine themselves to anti-Israel language.
At this stage of their economic development, with its focus on commodity exports, the priority for Africa's countries should be long-term economic integration, not currency union.
The situation in the Mediterranean region is at a more advanced stage. The broad planks of a partnership are already there, so what is now needed is to enhance Europe's integration with its southern neighbors.
At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi-year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.
Though it is impossible to understand fully the implications of the Commission's new structure at this early stage, some of its institutional ramifications are already emerging.
Where else can the US experience what it is like to be a small country on the global stage?
Perhaps the best chance to address the problem at an earlier stage was immediately after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.
Of course, democratization does not automatically guarantee better behavior on the world stage.
As in the Tang Dynasty, arts and culture were at center stage, reflecting the country's economic prowess and political might.
Today, following the North's third nuclear test, we seem to have entered the most precarious stage yet, with the regime declaring that it will never surrender its nuclear option.
However, neither the bank system nor the legal system were actually impediments at this stage of development.
They will become important as Russia moves to the next stage of growth, and so these new businessmen are demanding these reforms.
But he was more than willing to occupy center stage in Arab diplomacy's support of the Annapolis peace conference.

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