Stage

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).

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

Domain	Definition
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.

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)

Context	Synonyms 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.

Domain	Usage
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.

Domain	Title
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	Stage Directions (reference) (more periodical examples)

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	Center Stage (2000 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	CS-1 CENTER STAGE (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	4 Stage Bath System (reference) 4 Stage Feeding Seat (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	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.

Author	Quotation
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.

Author	Date	Quotation
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.

Title	Author	Quote
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.

Subject	Topic	Quote
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.

Speaker	Phrase(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.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	We 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	1817-1825	This 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	1961-1963	Last 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	1963-1969	Africa stands at an earlier stage of development than Latin America.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Then, 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.

"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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.64%	16,392	564
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.21%	35	58,339
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.08%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	0.07%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	16,452	N/A

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.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Stage	Last name	1,000	11,446
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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.

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.

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, running board, shoulder, sill, stave, step, tread), естрада (bandsman, bandstand, estrade, platform, stand). (various references)

Chinese		階段 (section), 臺 (desk, platform, station), 阶段 (phase, Phases), 舞台 (arena), 期 (a period of time, period, phase, term, time, to hope), 層次 (administrative level, arrangement of ideas, level, phase). (various references)

Czech		stupeò (degree, grade, order, phase, pitch, point, rank, rate, rung, step, tier), stanice (station), stadium, scéna (scene, set, theatre), pódium (catwalk, dais, stand), divadlo (board, pageant, Playhouse, show, theatre, theatricals), epocha (epoch, period), fáze (lap, phase), inscenovat (stage-manage), jevištì (scene), lešení (rack, scaffold, scaffolding), úsek (leg, reach, section, stretch), organizovat (arrange, Mount, organize, systematize), zaranžovat, pořádat (hold), režírovat (direct), uvést na jevištì, období (epoch, period, phase, season, spell, term). (various references)

Danish		styre (administration, board of directors, control, management, platform, reign, rule), station (station, stop), stadium (phase), stade (bee hive, beehive, bee-hive, hive, phase), scene (scene), vandstand (sea level), trin (round, rung, second level first stage, second level second stage, steps), opføre et stykke på en scene (put a play on the stage), iscenesættelse (management, production, staging), forbindende stadie (connecting stage, switching stage), fase (phase), etape. (various references)

Dutch		podium (platform, podium), tribune (platform, podium, rostrum, speaker's platform), leiding (direction, guide, platform, steering), etappe (stadium), bestuur (administration, board of directors, control, management, platform, reign, rule). (various references)

Esperanto		stadio (stadium), stacio (station, stop), scenejo, fazo (phase), etapo, estrado (platform). (various references)

Faeroese		strekki, støð (station, stop), teinur, tíðarbil (era, stadium), menningsgarstig (stadium), leikpallur. (various references)

Farsi		پایه (Base, Basis, Bedrock, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Outrigger, Phase, Pillar, Prop, Root, Sill, Stalk, Stanchion, Status, Stock, Stratum), پرده گاه , منزل (Abode, Home, House, Inn), مرحله دارشدن , مرحله (Grade, Order, Phase, Point, Process, Rung, Scene, Stadium), وهله (Heat, Instance, Occasion, Onset, Place), طبقه (Bed, Caste, Category, Class, Estate, Genus, Grain, Ilk, Order, Race, Sort, Story, Stratum), صحنه نمایش , اشکوب (Story), درصحنه ظاهرشدن . (various references)

Finnish		vaihe (phase, vicissitude). (various references)

French		stade (stadium), phase, étape (stadium, step, stop, stopover), tenue (strip), station (stand, station, stop), niveau (standard), mise en scène (staging), estrade (stump), étage (storey, story). (various references)

Frisian		stasjon (station, stop), faze (phase). (various references)

German		Stadium (phase, stadium), stufe (degree, grade, increment, layer, level, pace, phase, rank, rung, stair, step, terrace, tier), podium (dais, landing, platform, podium, rostrum, stand), bühne (platform, ramp, scene, theater, theatre), veranstalten (arrange, fix up, hold, lay on, operate, organize, promote, put on, undertake), Station (phase, station, stop, ward), Phase (grade, phase), inszenieren (direct, Mount, produce, stage-manage, to stage), etappe (hop, lap, leg). (various references)

Greek		σκηνή (scene, tabernacle, tent), σκηνοθετώ (direct), στάδιο (career, leg, scope, stadium), φάση (phase), εξέδρα (dais, grandstand, platform, podium, rostrum, stand). (various references)

Hawaiian		fazë (phase). (various references)

Hebrew		תקופה (age, cycle, epoch, era, period, season, space, streak, term, time), תחנה (depot, post, station, stop, yard), שלב (grade, joint, phase, step), זירה (amphitheatre, arena, scene, theatre), כרכרה (cab, carriage, cart, dromedary, fiacre), במה (forum, platform, pulpit), בימה (dais, platform, pulpit). (various references)

Hungarian		színpad (boards, proscenia, proscenium, scene), színhely (locale, loci, locus, scene, scene of action), fokozat (cascade, class, classification, degree, driver, gradation, grade, notch, scale), emelvény (dais, hustings, mount, platform, podium, scaffold, stand). (various references)

Indonesian		tahapan, mempergelarkan (etc), present (a play), jenjang (stair), gebyak (perform), babak (act, round, stanza). (various references)

Italian		stadio (stadium), scena (act, locale, scene, set, theater, theatre), palco (box, dais, flooring, platform, stand), fase (period, phase, stroke). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		舞台 , 次 (below, next, order, sequence, stage station, subsequent, times). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅくえき (post town, relay station), ぶたい (corps, echelon, element, force, unit), つぎ (a patch, next, stage station, subsequent), いき (abandonment, breath, chic, court rank diploma, desertion, disposition, essence, freshness, going, heart, level, limits, purity, region, relinquishment, spirit, stet, style, tone), こうざ (account, chair, course, crouching, lectureship, platform, pulpit, upper seat), ステージ (performance), はこび (carriage, pace, progress, step), だんかい (gradation, grade, lump, mass), だんじょう (on a stage or platform or altar). (various references)

Korean		무대 (debut). (various references)

Manx		stad (arrest, intermission, pull up, stand, standstill, station, stationary, stay, stop, stop point, stop sign, stoppage, stopping place), skallan, laaragh (building plot, centre, centric, centrical, site, venue), keim (amble, caste, degree, estate, grade, of high rank, pace, phase, pitch, position, shortcut, standard, station, step, stile), cur er bun (engender, engineer, establish, inaugurate, instigate, launch, open up, organize, put on, start), cur er ardan, ardan (platform, stand). (various references)

Norwegian		stasjon (station, stop), scene. (various references)

Occitan		escèna. (various references)

Papiamen		stashon (station, stop), fase (phase), etapa. (various references)

Pig Latin		agestay.(various references)

Polish		stacja (station, stop). (various references)

Portuguese		palco (proscenium), estrado (bed frame, dais, grandstand, platform, podium). (various references)

Romanian		scenã (arena, board, boards, footlights, locale, row, scene, spectacle, the boards), stadiu (investigation, stadium), stadial, staţie (cab stand, halt, stand, station, stop), scenic (acting, scenic, stagy, theatrical), etapã (journey, lap, period, phase, run), estradã (dais, estrade, platform, rostrum, scaffold, stand), eşafodaj (fabric, scaffolding, structure), dramatiza (dramatize), de teatru (scenic, theatrical), fazã (phase, phasis), artã dramaticã (dramatics, the theater, the theatre), plãnui (cast about to, conceive, contemplate, devise, meditate, plan, project, scheme), arenã (amphitheatre, arena, circle, circus, field, lists, pit, ring), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), câmp de activitate (branch), fi bun de jucat, înscena (feign, frame), perioadã (age, cycle, date, day, distance, epoch, era, lapse, period, repetend, season, stadium, streak, term, tide, time), tribunã (grand stand, grandstand, rostrum, stand, Tribune), platou de cinema, podium (dais, podium), pune în scenã (bring out, put on), pune la cale (brew, cogitate, compass, contrive, cook, engineer, excogiate, hatch, meditate, scheme), rând (batch, bout, file, innings, it, line, queue, range, rank, round, row, series, stem, string, succession, time, train, turn), teatru (acting, drama, footlights, histrionics, house, locale, Playhouse, scene, seat, theater, theatre), treaptã (bench, degree, horse, level, pace, peg, rank, remove, round, rung, spoke, stair, step, tread), oprire (arrest, ban, block, call off, cease, cessation, containment, end, foreclosure, halt, interruption, let up, obstruction, pause, prohibition, retention, stall, stand, standstill, station, stay, stick, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Russian		сцена (board, scene, spectacle), сценическое искусство (theatrics), ступень (degree, remove, stair, step), ступенчатый (benched, step-like), степень (degree, exponent, extent, grade, order, pitch, power, rate), этап;сцена, этап (phase), стадия (phase, stadium), перегон, период (continuance, date, day, period, phase, season, spell, tide, time), платформа (platform), инсценировать (dramatize, theatricalize), дилижанс (diligence, post-chaise, stagecoach, stage-coach). (various references)

Scottish		stèsean (station, stop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stepen (degree, extent, gradation, grade, level), skele (scaffold, scaffolding, staging, trestle, truss), scena (locale, scene), vodostaj (water level), prirediti (organize, show), pozornica, pozorište (playhouse, theater, theatre), pozorišni (scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, theater, theatre, theatrical), postaviti na scenu, nivo vode, izvesti (bring out, derive, embroider, export, perform, present, realize, take out), faza (live wire, phase), etapa (lap), bina. (various references)

Spanish		fase (lap, leg, light, phase, time), etapa (degree, food ration, lap, leg, phase, progress), estrado (bandstand, bench, dais, platform, podium), escenario (scene, scenery, setting, tabloid), escena (scene, setting). (various references)

Swedish		teater (Masquerade, play, Playhouse, theater, theatre), scen (locality, scene), estrad (dais, estrade, platform, rostrum, scaffold). (various references)

Thai		เวที (bowl), ออกแสดง, ฉาก (scene, set), รถม้าโดยสาร, ระยะเวลา (length). (various references)

Turkish		sahneye koymak (grandstand, play to the grandstand, present, represent), sahnelemek (enact, grandstand, play to the grandstand, present, produce, put on, put on the stage, show), sahne (arena, boards, scene, scenic, set, setting, site), safha (phase), menzil (carry, compass, gunshot, halting place, range, reach, rifle range, rifle shot, shot), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, string, whack up, work up), derece (clinical thermometer, degree, extent, gradation, grade, pitch, rank, rate, rating, remove, scale, standard, States, step, thermometer), erim (compass, radius, range, reach, shot, sweep), etap (lap, leg), evre (degree, phase, state), hazırlamak (arrange, coach, concoct, engross, equip, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, prepare, set, set by, work up), iskele (dockage, gangboard, gangway, landing, landing place, landing stage, larboard, pier, port, quay, scaffold, scaffolding, seaport, staging, stopping place, wharf), aşama (cycle, degree, estate, gradation, grade, half-way house, instance, phase, pitch, process, rank, strand, tier), katman (bed, deposit, layer, sheet, sphere, stratum, system), zemin (backcloth, backdrop, background, bed, floor, ground, ground-, groundwork, level), mikroskop lâmı, ortam (ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, environment, medium, occasion), tabaka (bed, cigarette case, coat, coating, collection, covering, lamina, layer, order, ply, rank, sheet, sphere, stratum), yönlendirmek (canalize, conduct, direct, divert, guide, head, incline, lead, Orient, orientate, parlay, process, prompt, shape, shoo, steer, sway), kademe (bracket, echelon, grade, remove, stair, step). (various references)

Turkmen		sahna. (various references)

Ukrainian		сценічний (histrionic, scenic, theatrical), сцена (board, scene), ставитися (befall), ставити (ante, place, plank, posit, position, post, produce, put, set, set out, set up, stagemanage, stand), станція (choky, station), стадія (period, phase, point), інсценувати, фаза (phase), театр (theater, theatre), шаблонний (characterless, ready made, stereotyped, worn, worn out), організовувати (organize, regiment), арена (arena, circus, cirque). (various references)

Vietnamese		quãng đường (way), phạm vi hoạt động (arena, play, purview), nghề kịch, khung cảnh hoạt động giai đoạn đoạn đường, kịch vũ đài, bệ (dais, pedestal, sole). (various references)

Welsh		llwyfan (platform), gradd (degree, grade), esgynlawr (platform), chwaraefwrdd. (various references)

Zulu		isiteshi (station, stop). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	skene. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aetas, aetate, aetatem, aetates, aetatis, pulpitum, status, tempus temporis. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	estage. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 20, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	KaqhmenoV de tiV neaniaV onomati eutucoV epi thV quridoV kataferomenoV upnw baqei dialegomenou tou paulou epi pleion katenecqeiV apo tou upnou epesen apo tou tristegou katw kai hrqh nekroV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Sedens autem quidam adulescens nomine Eutychus super fenestram cum mergeretur somno gravi disputante diu Paulo eductus somno cecidit de tertio cenaculo deorsum et sublatus est mortuus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And a yong man, Euticus bi name, sat on the wyndowe, whanne he was fallun in to an heuy sleep, while Poul disputide long, al slepynge he felle doun fro the thridde stage; and he was takun vp, and was brouyt deed.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And there sate in a wyndowe a certayne yonge man named Eutichos fallen into a depe slepe. And as Paul declared he was the moare overcome with slepe and fell doune from the thyrde lofte and was taken vp deed.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, having fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 20, Verse 9
Albanian	Një djalosh me emër Eutik, që ishte ulur në parvazin e dritares, e zuri një gjumë i rëndë; dhe, ndërsa Pali e çoi fjalën gjatë, e zuri gjumi, ra nga kati i tretë poshtë dhe e ngritën të vdekur.
Cebuano	Ug diha sa bintana naglingkod ang usa ka batan-ong lalaki nga ginganlan si Eutico, nga nahinanok sa halalum nga paghikatulog samtang si Pablo nagpadayon pa gihapon sa pagsulti. Ug sa gidaug na gayud siya sa katulogon, siya nahulog ngadto sa ubos gikan sa ikatulong andana, ug gipanagsakwat siya nga patay na.
Croatian	Na prozoru je sjedio neki mladiæ imenom Eutih. Kako je Pavao dulje govorio, utone on u dubok san. Svladan snom, pade s treæeg kata dolje. Digoše ga mrtva.
Danish	Og der sad i Vinduet en ung Mand ved Navn Eutykus; han faldt i en dyb Søvn, da Paulus fortsatte Samtalen så længe, og overvældet af Søvnen styrtede han ned fra det tredje Stokværk og blev tagen død op.
Dutch	En een zeker jongeling, met name Eutychus, zat in het venster en met een diepen slaap overvallen zijnde, alzo Paulus lang tot hen sprak, door den slaap nederstortende, viel van de derde zoldering nederwaarts, en werd dood opgenomen.
Finnish	Niin eräs nuorukainen, nimeltä Eutykus, istui ikkunalla, ja kun Paavalin puhe kesti niin kauan, vaipui hän sikeään uneen ja putosi unen vallassa kolmannesta kerroksesta maahan; ja hänet nostettiin ylös kuolleena.
French	Or, un jeune homme nommé Eutychus, qui était assis sur la fenêtre, s`endormit profondément pendant le long discours de Paul; entraîné par le sommeil, il tomba du troisième étage en bas, et il fut relevé mort.
German	Es saß aber ein Jüngling mit namen Eutychus in einem Fenster und sank in tiefen Schlaf, dieweil Paulus so lange redete, und ward vom Schlaf überwältigt und fiel hinunter vom dritten Söller und ward tot aufgehoben.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Seorang pemuda bernama Eutikhus duduk di jendela. Karena Paulus tidak berhenti-henti berbicara, pemuda itu menjadi mengantuk sekali sampai ia tertidur di jendela itu, lalu jatuh ke bawah dari tingkat ketiga. Waktu mereka mengangkatnya, ia sudah mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka ada seorang muda bernama Eutikhus duduk di jendela sudah terlelap. Maka oleh sebab Paulus terlalu lama berkata-kata, lalu ia ditawan oleh lelapnya itu sehingga jatuh dari tingkat yang ketiga, kemudian orang pun mengangkat dia sudah mati.
Italian	un ragazzo chiamato Eutico, che stava seduto sulla finestra, fu preso da un sonno profondo mentre Paolo continuava a conversare e, sopraffatto dal sonno, cadde dal terzo piano e venne raccolto morto.
Latvian	Kad Pâvils tik ilgi runâja, tad kâds jauneklis, vârdâ Eitihs, uz palodzes sçdçdams, iegrima dziïâ miegâ un, miega pârvarçts, nokrita no treðâ stâva lejâ un tika pacelts jau nedzîvs.
Maori	Na tera tetahi taitamariki, ko Utiku te ingoa, i te matapihi e noho ana, kua tino parangia e te moe: a, ka roa tonu te kauwhau a Paora, na ka pehia rawatia ia e te moe, na ka taka iho i te toru o nga whakapaparanga o nga ruma, tangohia rawatia ak e kua mate.
Norwegian	Men en ung mann ved navn Eutykus satt i vinduet og var falt i dyp søvn, da Paulus talte med dem i lang tid, og i søvne styrtet han ut og falt ned fra tredje stokkverk, Og blev tatt død op.
Portuguese	E certo jovem, por nome åutico, que estava sentado na janela, tomado de um sono profundo enquanto Paulo prolongava ainda mais o seu sermão, vencido pelo sono caiu do terceiro andar abaixo, e foi levantado morto.
Rumanian	Wi un tknqr, numit Eutih, care wedea pe fereastrq, a adormit deabinelea kn timpul lungei vorbiri a lui Pavel; biruit de somn, a cqzut jos din catul al treilea, wi a fost ridicat mort.
Russian	чП ЧТЕНС РТПДПМЦЙФЕМШОПК ВЕУЕДЩ рБЧМПЧПК ПДЙО АОПЫБ, ЙНЕОЕН еЧФЙИ, УЙДЕЧЫЙК ОБ ПЛОЕ, РПЗТХЪЙМУС Ч ЗМХВПЛЙК УПО Й, РПЫБФОХЧЫЙУШ, УПООЩК ХРБМ ЧОЙЪ У ФТЕФШЕЗП ЦЙМШС, Й РПДОСФ НЕТФЧЩН.
Shuar	Tura nuisha natsa Eutikiu, aankamunam ayamas pujusmiayi. Tura Papru ti esaram chichaakui nu Nátsasha kari pujumiayi. Tumáa pujus kanaki Yakí Pátanmaya akaiki iniaamiayi. Tura penké jakan Júsarmiayi.
Swahili	Kijana mmoja aitwaye Eutuko alikuwa ameketi dirishani wakati Paulo alipokuwa anaendelea kuhutubu. Eutuko alianza kusinzia kidogokidogo na hatimaye usingizi ukambana, akaanguka chini kutoka ghorofa ya tatu. Wakamwokota amekwisha kufa.
Swedish	Invid fönstret satt då en yngling vid namn Eutykus, och när Paulus talade så länge, föll denne i djup sömn och blev så överväldigad av sömnen, att han störtade ned från tredje våningen; och när man tog upp honom, var han död
Uma	Hi porumpua-kai toe, ria hadua kabilasa, Eutikhus hanga' -na, mohura-i hi jendela. Ngkai ka'uma-na napentoo-nto'oi Paulus metudui', tetunu' -imi kabilasa toei nculi' leta', alaa-na monawu' -imi hi tana'. Hiaa' jendela toe hi katolu duncu-na ngkai tana'. Mehompo-ramo doo-na hilou mpo'ongko' -i, rahilo-rawo mate-imi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stage": stageable, stagecoach, stagecoaches, stagecraft, stagecrafts, staged, stageful, stagefuls, stagehand, stagehands, stagelike, stager, stagers, stages, stagestruck, stagey. (additional references)
	Words ending with "stage": backstage, downstage, forestage, hostage, interstage, multistage, offstage, onstage, postage, restage, soundstage, substage, upstage, wastage. (additional references)
	Words containing "stage": downstages, forestages, hostages, offstages, postages, restaged, restages, soundstages, substages, upstaged, upstages, wastages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atage, attage, estage, estagio, Estaugh, Etage, Ntmaga, sagae, sagem, sagen, Sagep, sagie, scage, Schagen, seage, setag, Shague, Skauge, slage, smage, soage, sottage, spage, staae, stabe, stace, stae, stafe, stagg, stagse, stagt, staig, stalg, stame, stape, stase, staxe, staze, steeg, stego, steze, stg, stibe, stieg, stig, stiger, stmg, stoga, stoge, stogee, stogen, strag, straga, strage, stuge, tage, Tsegaw, Tsegu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stage" (pronounced stā"j)
4	s t ā" j	backstage, offstage, onstage, restage, upstage.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gates, getas.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-s-t"
	-1 letter: ages, ates, east, eats, etas, gaes, gast, gate, gats, gest, geta, gets, sage, sate, seat, seta, stag, tags, teas, tegs.
	-2 letters: age, ate, eat, eta, gae, gas, gat, get, sae, sag, sat, sea, seg, set, tae, tag, tas, tea, teg.
	-3 letters: ae, ag, as, at, es, et, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-s-t"
	+1 letter: agates, ageist, agents, aglets, egesta, gamest, gasket, gasted, gaster, gayest, grates, greats, retags, sagest, staged, stager, stages, stagey, targes, teguas.
	+2 letters: ageists, agisted, agnates, aiglets, aigrets, argents, augites, baguets, cagiest, dotages, eaglets, easting, eatings, ergates, gabfest, gadgets, gagster, gaiters, gallets, gametes, gamiest, gannets, gargets, garnets, garotes, garrets, garters, gashest, gaskets, gasters, gastrea, gateaus, gathers, gelants, gelates, gelatos, gestalt, gestapo, gestate, goatees, graters, gravest, grayest, gyrates, hostage, ingates, ingesta, largest, legates, legatos, ligates, magnets, metages, negates, onstage, orgeats, outages, pargets, postage, potages, restage, sagiest, scutage, seagirt, seating, segetal, sigmate, stagers, stagged, stagger, staggie, stagier, stanged, stengah, storage, stowage, strange, taggers, tangles, targets, teargas, teasing, telegas, towages, triages, upstage, vaguest, wastage.
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Country	Name
USA	General Magic Inc., a development stage company
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency 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.


"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.

Stage

Definition: Stage

Stage

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Stage

Specialty Definition: Theater

20th Century British Playwrights

20th Century German Language Playwrights

20th Century Irish Playwrights

20th Century Russian and French Theatre Directors

20th Century Polish Theatre Director

20th Century German Language Theatre Directors

Awards

Synonyms: Stage

Synonyms within Context: Stage

Degree

Layer

Situation

Support

Term

Time

Vehicle

Crosswords: Stage

Modern Usage: Stage

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Stage

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Stage

Photos:Stage

Illustrations:Stage

Computer Images:Stage

Photo Album: Stage

Digital Photo Gallery: Stage

Familiar Quotations: Stage

Aristophanes

Charles Darwin

Friedrich Nietzsche

Maggie Kuhn

Oscar Wilde

William Ellery Channing

William Shakespeare

Historic Usage: Stage

US Declaration of Independence

Communist Manifesto

Treaty of Versailles

Roe v. Wade

Use in Literature: Stage

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Non-Fiction Usage: Stage

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Stage

Dick Van Dyke

James Lipton

Jermaine Jackson

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Rosie O'Donnell

Speeches: Stage

Photos:
Stage

Illustrations:
Stage

Computer Images:
Stage