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Definition: Stage

Stage

Noun

1. 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".

2. 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?".

3. 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".

4. (usually "the stage"); the theater as a profession; "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage".

5. 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".

6. 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".

7. A section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise".

8. A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.

Verb

1. Perform (a play), esp. on a stage; "we are going to stage "Othello".

2. Plan, organize, and carry out (an event).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Stage

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

1. A self-propelled separable element of a rocket vehicle. See multistage rocket. 2. A step or process through which a fluid passes, especially in compression or expansion.3. A set of stator blades and a set of rotor blades in an axial-flow compressor or in a turbine; an impeller wheel in a radial-flow compressor. See multistage compressor, single-stage compressor, single-stage turbine. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

A)the elevation of a water surface above a datum of reference; b)the depth of water at any point in a stream, generally calibrated in terms of rate of flow sometimes in association with a weir(a staging weir)or flume. Source: European Union. (references)

Fine Arts

The raised flooring in a theater or auditorium on which plays or other spectacles are enacted. Source: European Union. (references)

General

Raised horizontal platform on which the head table is placed. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

The vertical distance of the water surface to a gauge datum. Source: European Union. (references)
 Elevation of a water surface above any chosen plane, often above an established low water plane; gage height. Source: European Union. (references)

Hydrologic

The level of the water surface above a given datum at a given location. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

A hydraulic amplifier used in a servo-valve. Servo-valves may be single stage, two stage, three stage, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

A distinct period or phase in the course or progress of disease. Source: European Union. (references)
 Cancer is found in lymph node areas on both sides of the diaphragm(the thin muscle under the lungs that helps one breathe). The cancer may have also spread to an area or organ near the lymph node areas and/or to the spleen. Source: European Union. (references)

Military & Defense

An element of the missile or propulsion system that generally separates from the missile at burnout or cut-off. Stages are numbered chronologically in order of burning. Source: European Union. (references)
 The part of an air route from one air staging unit to the next. Source: European Union. (references)
 To process, in a specified area, troops which are in transit from one locality to another. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A landing, such as in a shaft mine. b. A platform on which mine cars stand. c. A step in a process. d. A time-stratigraphic unit next in rank below a series and corresponding to an age; it generally consists of several biostratigraphic zones. It isthe most important unit for long-range correlation. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A concept in solvent extraction where complete equilibrium between phases in attained. In mixer-settlers the concept of a stage is often synonymous with the physical unit of one mixer and one settler. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

The connecting matrices containing crosspoints that are given the same number in connections where crosspoints are numbered starting with the closest to the network inlets. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

A combination of traffic streams which encounter green simultaneously; can be adjusted to suit traffic conditions (stage control). (PH/PTIH). Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Theater

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Theater (also Theatre in British and Commonwealth English) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle - indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialog style, theatre takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, kabuki, chinese opera, and pantomime. Here is a list of acting terms.

Kinds of theater

"Drama" is that branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text (plays or "dramatic literature") or improvised, is paramount. "Musical theater" is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance routines, and spoken dialogue. There is a particularly long tradition of political theater, intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and encourage social change. Various creeds, Catholicism for instance, have built upon the entertainment value of theatre and created (for example) mystery plays and morality plays.

There is an enormous variety of philosophies, artistic processes, and theatrical approaches to creating plays and drama. Some are connected to political or spiritual ideologies, and some are based on purely "artistic" concerns. Some processes focus on story, some on the theatre as event, some as theatre as a catalyst for social change. According to Aristotle's seminal theatrical critique Poetics, there are six elements necessary for theatre. They are Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, and Spectacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer Lope de Vega wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards, two actors, and one passion." Others notable for their contributtion to theatrical philosophy are Konstantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Orson Welles, Jerzy Grotowski.

20th Century American Playwrights

20th Century British Playwrights

20th Century German Language Playwrights

20th Century Irish Playwrights

See also: Irish theatre

Other 20th Century English-language playwrights

This gives a brief listing of some of the better-known playwrights; but theatre is a highly collaborative, multi-person, multi-media craft. Plays are usually produced by a production team*artistic staff combined with various technical, support, and design staff. Among these are the director, scenic designer, the lighting designer, the costume designer, the dramaturge, and the stage manager and production manager. This is not an all inclusive list, and may include other personnel from the world of technical theatre.

20th Century English Language Theatre Directors

20th Century Russian and French Theatre Directors

20th Century Polish Theatre Director

20th Century German Language Theatre Directors

Awards

See also*Repertory theatre, dramatist, list of dramatists, history of theatre, improvisational theatre, radio and television drama, summer stock, cinematic drama, suspension of disbelief

Theater building

A theatre is also the building in which works and plays are performed. There are as many styles of performance space as there are styles of performance, but most theatres include a designated "stage" or playing space, a designated audience area or "house," and some sort of off-stage area for preparation and storage, called "backstage," which is typically concealed from the audience. Theatres range from ornate, cathedral-like structures to simple undecorated rooms or black box theatres.

Some of these buildings are masterpieces of architecture. Others, often those known for opera, have become major cultural references and symbols.

The original Greek theatre was semicircular in form and was normally built on a hillside, often overlooking the sea. These theatres also typically included a "raked" or sloped stage, with the back of the stage being higher than the front. Such theatres were often constructed with excellent acoustics, so that a player standing centre stage could be clearly heard throughout the auditorium. The Romanss copied this style of building, but tended not to be so concerned about the location, being prepared to build walls and terraces instead of looking for a naturally-occurring site.

During the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, like the Globe Theatre in London, home to William Shakespeare's troupe of actors. The Globe has now been rebuilt as a fully working and producing theatre near its original site (largely thanks to the efforts of film director Sam Wanamaker) to give modern audiences an idea of the environment for which Shakespeare and other playwrights of the period were writing.

Contemporary theatres are often non-traditional, such as very adaptable spaces, or theatres where audience and performers are not separated. A major example of this is the modular theatre, (see for example the Walt Disney Modular Theatre). This large theatre has floors and walls divided into small movable sections, with the floor sections on adjustable hydraulic pylons, so that the space may be adjusted into any configuration for each individual play. As new styles of theatre performance have evolved, so has the desire to improve or recreate performance venues. This applies equally to artistic and presentation techniques, such as stage lighting.

Specific designs of contemporary live theaters include proscenium, thrust, black box theater, theater in the round, amphitheater, and arena. A special kind of theater is one in a train carriage (picture). See also movie theater and puppet theater.

See also: Stagecraft,Technical theater, Theater Techniques, Opera house, Home Theater, Irish theatre

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Theater."

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Synonyms: Stage

Synonyms: degree (n), leg (n), level (n), microscope stage (n), phase (n), point (n), stagecoach (n), arrange (v), bring about (v), present (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stage

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Degree

Point, mark, stage; (term); intensity, strength; (greatness).

Layer

Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.

Situation

Noun: situation, position, locality, locale, status, footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose.

Support

Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement).

Term

Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.

Time

Noun: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap.

Vehicle

Post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach, glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom, shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Stage

English words defined with "stage": anal stagegenital stagelanding stage, left stageoral stagephallic stageright stageStacking stage, Stage box, stage direct, stage director, stage effect, stage left, Stage lights, stage manager, Stage micrometer, stage righttheater stage, theatre stage, thrust stage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "stage": Bankfull Stage, booster stageCaution Stage, class-A stage, Cleavage Stage, Ovum, concentration stage, control stage, Curtis stageDIRECTOR, STAGEE-3, Flood Stage ReportFederov stage, first stage canopy, first stage unit, Flood Stagegoverning stagemain stage, MANAGER, STAGEorthotectic stagepegmatitic stage, pendular stage, pneumatolytic stage, primary stage unitrevolving stage, Rope Stagesecond stage of basic education, shunt-compensated transistor stage, stage decorator, Stage Driver, stage grouting, stage I cancer of the cervix, stage I laryngeal cancer, stage I prostate cancer, stage II laryngeal cancer, Stage II Precipitation Processing, stage III anal cancer, Stage III Precipitation Processing, stage III prostate cancer, stage IV nasopharynx cancer, stage IV pancreatic cancer, Stage IV Precipitation Processing, stage IV prostate cancer, stage machinery, stage screwtwo stage sampleuncompensated transistor stage, upper stagevelocity-compounded stage. (references)
Etymologies containing "stage": Stake. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Stage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (course, institute, placement, time of probation, traineeship, training).

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Modern Usage: Stage

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Remember, Daddy? That beautiful stage that you were gonna build for me. You were gonna light it with nothing but candles (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

On the stage. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

No just the stage. (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Stage one, preparation (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

The stage is the other way dear (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

Lyrics

Being on stage with a mic in my hand (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

Like a dark cloud on a crowded stage (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall)

And as I watched him on the stage (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean)

Step on stage and get faded just like a flat top (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

You know someone said that the world’s a stage (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Clever

Lawyer (n): Larval stage of politician. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Des O'Connor on Stage (1969)

ABC Stage 67 (1966)

Stage Plight (1966)

Convict Stage (1965)

The Stage to Three (1964)

Song Titles

Stage Diver's Lament in 3/4 Time (performing artist: John Black)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Stage

DomainTitle

References

  • General Magic Inc., a development stage company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • On Stage Entertainment, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Transmeta Corporation, a development stage company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Iceman, the Arsonist and the Troubled Agents: Tragedy and Melodrama on the Modern Stage (reference)

  • Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) (reference)

  • Maximizing the Arthritis Cure: A Step-By-Step Program to Faster, Stronger Healing During Any Stage of the Cure (reference)

  • National Abjection: The Asian American Body on Stage (reference)

  • Stage Acquitted Being a Full Answer to Mister Collier (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Fancy Lala - Taking Center Stage (Vol. 3) (reference)

  • Vandread - Second Stage - Sacrifice (Vol. 2) (reference)

  • Barney: Barney's Big Surprise - Live on Stage (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Stage

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Photo Album: Stage

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The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer).

Six-step sequence of the death of a cancer cell. A cancer cell has migrated through the holes of a matrix coated membrane from the top to the bottom, simulating natural migration of a invading cancer cell between, and sometimes through, the vascular endothelium. Notice the spikes or pseudopodia that are characteristic of an invading cancer cell (1). A buffy coat containing red blood cells, lymphocytes and macrophages is added to the bottom of the membrane. A group of macrophages identify the cancer cell as foreign matter and start to stick to the cancer cell, which still has its spikes (2). Macrophages begin to fuse with, and inject its toxins into, the cancer cell. The cell starts rounding up and loses its spikes (3). As the macrophage cell becomes smooth (4). The cancer cell appears lumpy in the last stage before it dies. These lumps are actually the macrophages fused within the cancer cell (5). The cancer cell then loses its morphology, shrinks up and dies (6). Photo magnification: 1: x12,000; 2: x4,000; 3: x8,000; 4: x26,000; 5: x56,000; 6: x14,000. Credit: Susan Arnold (photographer).

This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore – called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC.

Closeup of Aedes aegypti mosquito fourth stage larvae, side view. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Static Test Firing of Saturn V S-1C Stage. Credit: NASA.

Saturn V Stage at Michould Assembly Facility. Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has successfully completed the first stage of a cosmic ... Credit: NASA.

Automatic Digital Recording (ADR) tide gauge Punched aluminum backed paper tape every 6 minutes with stage of tide. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #6 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, sheds its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Stage
 

"Stage lights 2" by Jewel Collins
Commentary: "Another picture of the lights up there at the set of South Pacific."
"Guitar in stage lights" by Val Head
Commentary: "Geat set up on the stage before the show."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Stage

AuthorQuotation

Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Charles Darwin

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Maggie Kuhn

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

William Ellery Channing

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Stage

AuthorDateQuotation

US Declaration of Independence

1776

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The character of the mandate must differ according to the stage of the development of the people, the geographical situation of the territory, its economic conditions, and other similar circumstances. (reference)

Roe v. Wade

1973

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Stage

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Consider this platform as our stage.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

At the stage of this mournful drama at which we have now arrived, Fantine has nothing left of what she had formerly been

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A score of the younger boys in white knickers and singlets came pattering down from the stage, through the vestry and into the chapel

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Stage

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The disease should be defined by TNM stage. (references)

It often is the end stage of cardiac disease. (references)

CEA elevations correlate with stage and histology. (references)

Business

This stage begins by classifying the company into an industry. (references)

Reference to arbitration may be made at any stage during litigation. (references)

Another plant at Temelin (South Bohemia) is in the final stage of construction. (references)

Civil Liberties

Australia

A full protection visa may be issued at any stage of the asylum adjudication process. (references)

Tajikistan

At every stage of the bureaucratic process, there are high official and unofficial fees. (references)

Jordan

On May 11, security forces dispersed hundreds of protestors who were attempting to stage two rallies in the Sweileh and Mahatta areas of Amman. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

Electronic commerce is still in an early stage. (references)

Georgia

VAT is payable at every stage of operation and import. (references)

Pakistan

WAPDA's corporatization has reached an advanced stage. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

At year's end, the trial was at the judicial investigation stage. (references)

Kazakhstan

Corruption is evident at every stage and level of the judicial process. (references)

Nicaragua

As of July, 44 cases had gone to arbitration but none had completed that stage. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

Of the 586 recognized indigenous areas, 327 have reached the final registration stage, and 135 remain to be demarcated legally. (references)

Botswana

The formation of the 20,000 square mile Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) by the colonial government in 1961 on traditional Basarwa lands set the stage for conflict between the Basarwa's pursuit of their traditional way of life and wildlife conservation. (references)

Minorities

Mauritania

The reform also provides for English and civics to be introduced at an early stage. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

As of January 1, 1999, Finland joined the third stage of the EMU. (references)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Education is compulsory through the intermediate stage, approximately 13 or 14 years of age. (references)

Morocco

More recently Morocco's early activism in the search for peace in the Middle East has made the Kingdom a valuable partner on the international stage. (references)

Political Rights

Nigeria

Irregularities occurred at each stage of the electoral process, particularly the presidential nominating convention and election in which, for example, large sums of money were offered by both political camps to delegates to vote against political opponents. (references)

Trade

Singapore

The GST is a multi-stage tax and is collected at every stage of the production and distribution chain. (references)

Bulgaria

U.S. involvement in project planning helps position potential U.S. suppliers at the project implementation stage. (references)

Travel

Qatar

The project is now in the bidding stage. (references)

Kenya

The use of first names at an early stage of a business relationship is acceptable. (references)

Australia

Country towns often stage annual agricultural, food and wine festivals, and ethnic groups hold their own celebrations. (references)

Women

Paraguay

Law enforcement officials periodically stage raids on houses of prostitution. (references)

United Kingdom

A 1999 government report, "Living Without Fear," indicated that one in four women experienced domestic violence at some stage in their lives, that two women per week were killed by their partners or former partners, and that women feared personal attack more than any other crime. (references)

Worker Rights

Guinea

Strikes are met with intimidation from security forces and, as a result, often do not make it out of the organizational stage. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Stage

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dick Van Dyke

The set was kind of set up like a stage set, and they wanted to make it look like a play, but kind of get inside of it, so there were lots of shots.

James Lipton

Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything. In film, you stop constantly.

Jermaine Jackson

See what it is, with our family, on stage we're comfortable and small crowds it's sort of we feel a little uncomfortable. But on stage it's where we sort of feel very natural.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Well, I cannot go on stage without keeping myself in shape, you know. When we work, we work six, seven hours, you know. My working day between eight and seven hours.

Rosie O'Donnell

Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Stage

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809We will consider them here, on the same stage with the whites, and where the facts are not apocryphal on which a judgment is to be formed.

James Monroe

1817-1825This contest was considered at an early stage by my predecessor a civil war in which the parties were entitled to equal rights in our ports.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Last month Prime Minister Macmillan and I laid plans for a new stage in our long cooperative effort, one which aims to assist in the wider task of framing a common nuclear defense for the whole alliance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Africa stands at an earlier stage of development than Latin America.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Then, in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Stage

"Stage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "Stage" is used about 16,452 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.64%16,392564
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.21%3558,339
Lexical Verb (base form)0.08%1397,576
Noun (proper)0.07%12101,599
                    Total100.00%16,452N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Stage

The following table summarizes the usage of "stage" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
StageLast name1,00011,446
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Stage

CountryName
USA

General Magic Inc., a development stage company

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Stage

Expressions using "stage": advanced stage advanced stage of pregnancy amplifying stage anal stage apogee kick stage apogee stage techniques appear on the stage at a halfway stage be at stage be on the stage booster stage clear stage cloud in dissipating stage come on stage come on the stage compressor stage concentration stage connecting stage control stage critical stage Curtis stage damming stage dual stage regulator early stage equal stage of development experimental stage fare stage final stage first stage first stage canopy first stage of basic education first stage of tertiary education first stage switch first stage unit flight stage floating stage front of the stage front part of stage genital stage glacial stage go on the stage governing stage hail stage hanging stage have a stage fright have a stage in highest stage of the water table hiss an actor off the stage hold the stage initial stage intermediate stage international flight stage landing stage larval stage latency stage left stage lowest stage of the water table microscope stage minimum stage New River Stage Oral Stage outdoor stage output stage pendular stage perfect stage phallic stage preliminary stage primary stage unit put a play on the stage put on the stage revolving stage right stage rocket stage route stage second level first stage second level second stage second stage of basic education second stage of tertiary education second stage unit sinking stage solfataric stage stacking stage stage 0 chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage a demonstration stage a peaceful protest stage a walkout stage adaptation stage box stage brace stage business stage carriage stage craft stage crew stage dancing stage decorator stage design stage designer stage direct stage direction stage directions stage director. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "stage": stage-1, stage-belgian, stage-by-stage, stage-centre, stage-coach, stage-coaches, stage-coaching, stage-coughed, stage-craft, stage-curtains, stage-damage, stage-designs, stage-direction, stage-directions, stage-dive, stage-dived, stage-divers, stage-dives, stage-diving, stage-door, stage-effects, stage-flat, stage-floor, stage-fright, stage-front, stage-hand, stage-hands, stage-left, stage-lights, stage-like, stage-lit, stage-mad, stage-manage, stage-managed, stage-management, stage-manager, stage-manager's, stage-manages, stage-managing, stage-one, stage-orientated, stage-pit, stage-play, stage-plays, stage-prop, stage-property, stage-right, stage-royalty, stage-sampling, stage-scenery, stage-set, stage-setting, stage-show, stage-southern, stage-specific, stage-struck, stage-the, stage-usable, stage-wagon, stage-whisper, stage-whispers, stage-wise.

Ending with "stage": back-stage, centre-stage, end-stage, five-stage, four-stage, landing-stage, liver-stage, off-stage, on-stage, six-stage, stage-by-stage, sub-stage, three-stage, two-stage.

Containing "stage": liver-stage-specific.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stage lighting

1,471

stage of alzheimers

91

stage of pregnancy

1,248

stage store

88

stage

917

summer stage

88

center stage

469

river stage

87

13 stage

226

d initial special stage

86

stage of grief

216

stage light

85

sonic stage

192

stage curtain

85

central park stage summer

167

stage equipment

82

child development stage

147

sleep stage

72

next stage

144

sound stage

70

cancer stage

141

baby stage

69

stage west

120

all the world a stage

69

center stage movie

116

center stage soundtrack

65

stage make up

104

breast cancer stage

64

portable stage

101

stage prop

63

mississippi river stage

100

death stage

62

picture of pregnancy stage

98

stage design

61

end stage renal disease

96

4 cancer stage

61

puppet stage

95

department stage store

61

labor stage

93

stage of puberty

61
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stage

Language Translations for "stage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

leiding (platform, steering), fase (phase). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

fazë (cycle, grade, leg, phase, timing). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏طور (age, develop, evolve, improve, incubate, phase, promote), ‏دخل المسرح, ‏رصيف الميناء (landing stage, quay, wharf), ‏إخراج مسرحي (staging), ‏خرج العمل المسرحي, ‏خرج المسرحية, ‏درجة (class, degree, echelon, grade, league, point, proportion, stair, tier), ‏طبقة صاروخ, ‏فترة (epoch, era, interval, period, phase, qualifying period, season, spell, term, time, while), ‏علي مراحل, ‏سقالة للعمال, ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏مرحلة (degree, grade, juncture, lap, period, phase, point, step), ‏مسرح (dramatize, playhouse, scene, theater, theatre), ‏منصة (bench, dais, dispatch box, foretop, gallery, platform, podium, ringside, rostrum, staging, stand, trestle, tribune), ‏خطف طائرة. (various references)

   

Basque

  

agertoki. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

организирам (get together, mastermind, orchestrate, organize, promote, put on, regiment, set on foot, sponsor, stage-manage), драматургия (dramatics, dramaturgy, the theater, the theatre), подиум (dais, platform, podium, rostrum), поприще (arena, avocation, career, field, line, path, walk of life), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, set up, shrink on, site, situate), представям (deliver, depicture, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, offer, perform, present, project, put in, recommend, represent, show, typify), актьорска професия (boards), етап (lap, leg, point, round, stadium), драма (drama, the theater, the theatre), масичка на микроскоп, сцена (scene, sequence, take), театър (boards, house, scene, shop, theater, theatre), фаза (avatar, leg, phase, quarter), част от ракета с отделен мотор, разстояние между две спирки, спирка (halt, pull in, rest, station, stop), скеле (airframe, falsework, gallows, scaffold, scaffolding, staging), стадий (gradations, phase, plane, point, stadium, state), стъпало (foot, metatarsus, rung, ru