stage

See also: Stage

English

Etymology

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“story of a building, performance stage, floor, loft”), from Vulgar Latin *stāticum (“standing-place”), from Latin stāre (“to stand”). Cognate with Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place”). More at stead.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /steɪd͡ʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒ

Noun

stage (plural stages)

  1. A phase.
    He is in the recovery stage of his illness.
    Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
    • Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859)
      Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
    • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
    • 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights - p.66
      "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
      "I though naked was sexy."
      "Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
  2. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
    The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
    • Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
      Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.
    • Charles Sprague (1791–1875)
      Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
  3. A floor or storey of a house.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
  4. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
  5. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
  6. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
    The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
  7. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
  8. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
    a stage of ten miles
  9. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
    a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
  10. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
    He placed the slide on the stage.
  11. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
    How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
    Synonym: level
  12. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
    • William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
      When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
    • John Milton (1608–1674)
      Music and ethereal mirth / Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
    • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
      Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
  13. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

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Derived terms
Terms derived from stage (noun)

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Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

  1. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
    The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
  2. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
    The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
  3. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
  4. To place in position to prepare for use.
    We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
    to stage data to be written at a later time

Synonyms

(Demonstrate in a deceptive manner)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage

Pronunciation
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  • Hyphenation: sta‧ge

Noun

stage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n)

  1. probation, induction
  2. apprenticeship
  3. internship

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +‎ -age (whence modern French étage). Cognates and borrowings are common in other European languages, including Italian stage, Czech stáž, Dutch stage and Serbo-Croatian staž.

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Noun

stage m (plural stages)

  1. internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date
    Ce jeune homme avait déjà fait un stage de ce genre auprès d’un des ministres tombés en 1827;
    This young man has already done an internship of this kind with one of the ministers who had fallen in 1827;
    (Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, 1844)
  2. probation, induction

Descendants

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Italian

Etymology

From French stage.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /staʒ/ (cf. French stage)
  • IPA(key): /steidʒ/ (via erroneous connection to the English stage)

Noun

stage m (invariable)

  1. internship

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