Staging

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	Time sequence of improvements executed on the same road. Source: European Union. (references)
	A floating platform, usually anchored at the end of a wharf or pier, for the landing or embarking of passengers and goods. Source: European Union. (references)
Computing	The moving of data from an office or low-priority device back to an on-line or higher-priority device, usually on demand of the system or on request of the user. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A short board or plank, its end notched into the bole, on which the cutter stands so as to enable him to fell the tree at a level not reachable from the ground. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	Performing exams and tests to learn the extent of the cancer within the body, especially whether the disease has spread from the original site to other parts of the body. (references)
Medicine	Identifying the scope and growth of a tumour. Source: European Union. (references)
Military & Defense	The process or operation during the flight of a rocket vehicle whereby a full stage or half stage is disengaged from the remaining body and made free to decelerate or be propelled along its own flight path. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A temporary flooring or scaffold, or platform b. One or more working platforms, fixed at defined levels in deep trenches or similar excavations, on to which excavated earth is thrown by shove. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Staging

Staging is the use of multiple independent rockets to reduce the total amount of mass that needs to be accelerated. As the rockets, known as stages, run out of fuel, they are discarded.

With this system the final mass of the rocket is lower than it would otherwise be, as empty fuel tanks are thrown away. On the downside, staging requires you to loft engines which are not being used until later, as well as making the entire rocket more complex and harder to build. Nevertheless the savings are so great that every rocket that launches payloads into orbit uses staging.

Most rockets use linear staging, in which a number of rockets are stacked on top of each other and fire one after the other. An example of such a rocket is the Saturn V. In order to increase the effciency of the staging, the "upper stages" were fueled by hydrogen, meaning there was much less mass to lift than had they used kerosene.

Soviet designs have tended to favour overlapping stages, where the "next" stage fires before the previous one is disconnected. This is why many Soviet rockets have "cages" between their stages, to allow the rocket exhaust from the upper stage to blow out and around the stage below it. The usefulness of this technique is questionable unless you have engines that take some time to get up and running, which is the case for the Soviet designs that used many small engines.

Many designs have been made to use parallel staging in which a number of stages fire at the same time. Early rockets in both the US and USSR have used such designs. Today many rockets that formerly did not use this technique have started to via the use of "strap on" solid rocket boosters to increase the delivered load. A good example of this is the original Thor (a development of the V-2) which evolved into the Thrust Augmented Thor, and finally to the Delta. Another example is the Space Shuttle which fires its solid rockets in parallel with its main engines.

Several attempts have been made to build completely parallel stages, in which an economy of scale could be achieved by using a large number of identical stages strapped together into a bundle. The most complete was the OTRAG project, which failed for political reasons.

In more recent times the usefulness of the technique has come into question. As the costs of space launches appear to be almost entirely the operational costs of the people involved (as opposed to fuel or other costs), reducing these costs seems like the best way to lower the costs. Since staging is expensive in terms of manpower, a new movement has concentrated on SSTO designs that have no stages.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Staging

Commercial Usage: Staging

Photo Album: Staging

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	In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises. Credit: NASA.		"Fooling around" - Cornelius Meaney staging fight - sometimes this was for real In 1941 a C&GS officer was seriously wounded by a bolo-wielding juramentado Occasionally Christian crewman from North would disappear in the Muslim South. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	A RI EPA vessel was donated for the 1997 transplant operation. The staging area was off Prudence Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		The staging area at Greenwich Bay, RI. Shellfishermen were hired by RI DEM to harvest quahogs from polluted areas to be transferred to clean areas where they could depurate, or cleanse themselves. The shellfish were protected from harvest and were later allowed to be harvested after they had spawned and contributed to wild stocks. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Another view of the staging are and the Snug Harbor, Greenwich Bay, RI. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		One of the many boats that helped to transfer NOAA volunteers from the staging area to the clean-up sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Peter Clark of Tampa Baywatch, left, addresses volunteers at the staging area before the workers depart to begin the clean-up. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		The road down to the only existing housing at Mona Island leads to the staging and docking areas for the restoration workers. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Two men drive their horses into the stream to drop wood off at the restoration staging site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		The spyder brings logs to the staging area at the Glade Bekken restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Staging

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Pelvic and para-aortic lymph node sampling is a part of surgical staging. (references)
		Most are unilateral and can be treated with adnexectomy and staging in young women. (references)
		Vascular space involvement, either venous or lymphatic, should not alter the staging. (references)
Business		Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at F.R.G. diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals. (references)
Civil Liberties	Burma	On November 29, Dr. Salai Tun Than, a 74 year-old was arrested for staging a political protest in Rangoon. (references)
	Turkey	In February a court acquitted some police officers of the charge of staging an illegal demonstration for participating in riots in Izmir in December 2000 after terrorist attacks killed two antiriot police officers; the court held that they had not intended to commit a crime. (references)
	Ukraine	While the Constitution requires that demonstrators merely inform the authorities of a planned demonstration in advance, the law on public assembly stipulates that organizations must apply for permission to their respective local administration at least 10 days before a planned event or demonstration; the new Criminal Code prescribes up to 2 months of corrective labor or a fine for repeatedly staging unauthorized demonstrations. (references)
Economic History	Macau	Portuguese traders used Macau as a staging port as early as 1516, making it the oldest European settlement in the Far East. (references)
	Macau	Initially, the Portuguese developed Macau's port as a trading post for China-Japan trade and as a staging port on the long voyage from Lisbon to Nagasaki. (references)
	The Bahamas	Many ancestors arrived in the Bahama Islands when they served as a staging area for the slave trade in the early 1800s. Others accompanied thousands of British loyalists who fled the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. (references)
Human Rights	Algeria	The organization also claimed that the Government was staging demonstrations opposing the Amnesty International visit. (references)
Political Economy	ROMANIA	However, the Social Pact does not prevent local unions from staging protests and strikes protesting privatization or restructuring of their companies or wage levels that do not keep the pace with the rate of inflation. (references)
Travel	Saudi Arabia	When staging promotional events or product demonstrations, one must anticipate these prayer breaks. (references)
Worker Rights	Romania	The Social Pact did not prevent local unions from staging protests and strikes. (references)
	Colombia	Before staging a legal strike, unions first must negotiate directly with management and, if no agreement results, accept mediation. (references)
	Marshall Islands	There are no specific laws concerning trafficking in persons; however, there is increasing suspicion that foreign-born Marshallese passport holders may be using the country as a staging point for trafficking. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Staging

Expressions: Staging

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Staging

Modern Translation: Staging

Language		Translations for "staging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skelë (bunder, gang board, Harbor, harborage, harbour, harbourage, landing, mole, pier, port, scaffold, scaffolding, stage, water front, wharf), vënie në skenë (direction, production, staggering), përqendrim trupash. (various references)

Arabic		‏فصل من الطائرة, ‏مكان تجمع العساكر, ‏منصة (bench, dais, dispatch box, foretop, gallery, platform, podium, ringside, rostrum, stage, stand, trestle, tribune), ‏إخراج مسرحي (stage), ‏رفوف (shelf). (various references)

Bulgarian		скеле (airframe, falsework, gallows, scaffold, scaffolding, stage), поставяне на пиеса, постановка (production, setting), полици за растения в парник. (various references)

Chinese		分级法. (various references)

Czech		režie. (various references)

Danish		trinvis udbygning, rakettrinsadskillelse, paelevaerk (bent, pile bent, piled fendering, roupp of piles, timber staging), optrappet dataoverføring, moler (jetties, piers), mole (breakwater, dyke, embankment, groin, groyne, jetty, landing stage, mole, pier, piled fendering, sea wall, spur, timber staging, wharf), landgangsbro (gangboard, gangway, jetty, landing stage, pier, shore gangway, wharf), iscenesættelse (management, production, stage), gangbro (construction trestle, footbridge, foot-bridge, gangway, gantry, overhead crossing, passage, passage way, pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, ramp, scaffold board), faeldebord (chopping board, jigger, jigger-board, springboard), anloebsbro (jetty, landing stage, wharf). (various references)

Dutch		steiger (landing-stage, pier), staging, scheiden van 2 rakettrappen, velplank (chopping board, jigger, jigger-board, springboard), toneelschikking (management, production, stage), inslaan (catch, hit, run across, strike), hulpsteiger (construction trestle, gantry), getrapte overbrenging, gefaseerde uitvoering, fasering, enscenering (management, production, stage), aanlegponton (jetty, landing stage, wharf). (various references)

Finnish		irrotus (ablation), aikaporrastus. (various references)

French		mise en scène (stage). (various references)

German		Inszenierung (presentation, production). (various references)

Greek		κατασκευαστικό γεφύρωμα (construction trestle, gantry), σκηνοθέτηση, σκηνοθεσία (direction, mise en scene), σκαλωσιά (scaffold, scaffolding), σταθερή εξέδρα επί πασσάλων (jetty, landing stage, wharf), ικρίωμα υλοτομήσεως (chopping board, jigger, jigger-board, springboard), ικρίωμα (gallows, scaffold, trestle), πρόσκαιρο γεφύρωμα (construction trestle, gantry), πρόχειρη εξέδρα, Επαναφορά στο πρσκήνιο, χρονική κλιμάκωση εργασιών, φράγμα από δοκούς, ανέβασμα έργου (management, production, stage), αποχωρισμός σταδίων πυραύλου. (various references)

Hebrew		פ�'ום (defective, faulty, lacunary, scaffold, vicious), �"ערכות (forming up, lineup, preparing oneself), �"צ�'�" (performance, play, show, showing), במוי (stage managing), ביום (direction, stage managing). (various references)

Hungarian		állványzat (carriage, frame, gantry, gauntry, leg, scaffold, scaffolding, stage), színre alkalmazás, színpadi előadás, építőállvány, állványozás (falsework, scaffolding). (various references)

Indonesian		pementasan (play, presentation, showing), pegelaran (perfomance, presentation), panggung (bandstand, platform, stillage). (various references)

Italian		sequenza (sequence, string), separazione dello stadio, pontile di molo avente struttura a giorno, pontile (gangway, landing stage, pier, wharf), ponte di servizio (construction trestle, gangway, gantry, service bridge), messinscena (production), messa in scena (production), impalcatura di abbattimento (chopping board, jigger, jigger-board, springboard), determinazione dello stadio, braccio di molo avente struttura a giorno, attivazione (activation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		興行化 (staging or filming a story), 続�" (continued staging of a play or show). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞくえ�" (continued staging of a play or show, worldly connection), �"うぎょうか (industrialization, staging or filming a story). (various references)

Korean		발판 (foothold, footstep, stool). (various references)

Pig Latin		agingstay

Portuguese		encenação (management, production, stage). (various references)

Romanian		pod de sondã, dramatizare (dramatizing), înscenare (frame up, put-up job). (various references)

Russian		перемещение (displacement, migration, motion, movement, relocation, removal, transfer, transferal, translation, transmigration, transposition, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skele (scaffold, scaffolding, stage, trestle, truss), putovanje poštanskim kolima, izvođenje (derivation, doing, performance, presentation). (various references)

Spanish		puesta en escena (management, production, stage). (various references)

Swedish		staging, uppgradering (upgrade, upgrading), plattform (cradle, dais, platform, stage, vestibule), iscensättning. (various references)

Turkish		sahneye koyma (presentation, presentment), sahneleme (enaction, presentation, rendering, rendition), yapı iskelesi (scaffold, scaffolding), mola vere vere gitme, iskele (dockage, gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, landing stage, larboard, pier, port, quay, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, stage, stopping place, wharf), gösterim (presentation, projection, run). (various references)

Ukrainian		інсценування, постановка (production, setting, theatricals). (various references)

Vietnamese		nơi nghỉ (staging post). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Staging

Rhyming with "Staging"

Anagrams: Staging

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	Direct Anagrams: gasting.
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: agings, gainst, gating, giants, sating.
	-2 letters: aging, agist, angst, antis, gains, gaits, gangs, giant, gigas, gnats, saint, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tings.
	-3 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, gags, gain, gait, gang, gast, gats, giga, gigs, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, nits, sain, sang, sati, sign, sing, snag, snit.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: agisting, gigatons, gratings, naggiest, stagging, stagings, stanging.
	+2 letters: agentings, fagotings, gangliest, gestating, gigantism, restaging, snaggiest, upstaging.
	+3 letters: absterging, astringing, estranging, faggotings, gatherings, gigantisms, outgassing, sabotaging, staggering, stagnating, stargazing, straggling, strangling, stravaging.
	+4 letters: agglutinins, castigating, designating, fustigating, gangsterish, gangsterism, genealogist, gigantesque, grubstaking, instigating, isografting, legislating, magnetising, misgrafting, segregating, segregation, stargazings, straighting, strangering, stravaiging, subjugating, subrogating, surrogating, teargassing, tobogganist.
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The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
StgAR	English	Staging area	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Domain	Title
Books	AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook: For the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (reference) Experimental Theatre: Creating and Staging Texts (reference) Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age Mission (reference) Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater (reference) Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition (Consumasian) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Staging #1 [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	68.78%	260	18,316
Noun (singular)	25.4%	96	33,456
Adjective (general or positive)	4.5%	17	85,106
Noun (proper)	1.06%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	0.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	378	N/A

Expressions using "staging": aeromedical staging unit ♦ casualty staging unit ♦ Neoplasm Staging ♦ staging area ♦ staging point ♦ staging post ♦ Whitmore-Jewett staging system. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "staging": staging-point, staging-post, staging-posts.
	Ending with "staging": entity-staging, re-staging, semi-staging.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
staging	284	riser staging	6
home staging	86	staging tanner	6
cancer staging	38	staging company	6
real estate staging	36	staging a house	6
breast cancer staging	31	staging platforms	6
portable staging	30	baltimore event staging	6
lung cancer staging	19	dc event staging washington	6
event staging	13	florida staging	6
prostate cancer staging	12	pressure staging ulcer	6
spider staging	10	event florida staging	6
colon cancer staging	9	event orlando staging	6
light staging	8	dc staging washington	6
mirage staging	8	baltimore staging	5
melanoma staging	8	philadelphia staging	5
home services staging	8	orlando staging	5
staging equipment	7	event philadelphia staging	5
staging wound	7	concert staging	5
production staging	7	aluminum staging	5
outdoor staging	7	av florida staging	5
molecular staging	7	av philadelphia staging	5
interior staging	7	av orlando staging	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "staging": stagings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "staging": restaging, upstaging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Staging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cottaging, Estaing, stageing, staming, stanging, Stigand, stooging. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "staging" (pronounced stā"jing)
4	-ā" j i ng	aging, disengaging, engaging, enraging, gauging, paging, raging, waging.
3	-j i ng	acknowledging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, dislodging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, enlarging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Staging

Definition: Staging

Staging

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Specialty Definition: Staging

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Staging

Synonym: Staging

Crosswords: Staging

Commercial Usage: Staging

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Usage Frequency: Staging

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