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Definition: Stagecraft |
StagecraftNoun1. Skill in writing or staging plays. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stagecraft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Crosswords: Stagecraft |
| English words defined with "stagecraft": coup de theatre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stagecraft": instructor, dramatic arts ♦ TEACHER, DRAMA, teacher, dramatics, teacher, theater arts. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is comprised of many diciplines, traditionally divided into four main sections; Theatrical Scenery and set construction (including scenic painting, theatrical properties, and special effects), theatrical lighting and sound effects (which includes musical Underscoring as well as theatrical sound effects), Wardrobe (including costume construction and makeup), and production (comprised of stage management, production management, and house management).
In its most basic incarnation, stagecraft may consist of a sole stage manager, who sets up all the scenery, organizes the cast, and runs the lighting instruments alone. At the other extreme end, modern Broadway and opera, it may include hundreds of skilled carpenters, painters, electricians, stagehands, seamstresses, wigmakers, &c., &c. ad infinitum. In this form, modern stagecraft is a highly technical and specialized field, with many sub-diciplines and a vast trove of history and tradition, far too vast to be discussed here.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stagecraft."
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Stagecraft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Stagecraft" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stagecraft | 25 |
stagecraft tool | 5 |
industry stagecraft | 4 |
lighting stagecraft | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stagecraft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فن نمایش وصحنه سازی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bühnenkunst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεατρική τέχνη (stage craft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | színpadi technika, rendezői képesség (showmanship), rendezői gyakorlat, drámaírói képesség, drámaírói gyakorlat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tecnica teatrale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ellyn yn ardan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agecraftstay мастерство драматурга или режиссера. (various references) nghệ thuật viết kịch nghệ thuật d n cảnh, nghệ thuật dựng kịch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stagecraft": stagecrafts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stagecraft" (pronounced stā"jkra'ft) |
| 5 | -k r a' f t | aircraft, antiaircraft, handcraft, handicraft, hovercraft, spacecraft, statecraft, witchcraft. |
| 4 | -r a' f t | autographed, choreographed, downdraft, overdraft, photographed, telegraphed, updraft. |
| 3 | -a' f t | camshaft, crankshaft, overstaffed, understaffed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-g-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: artefacts. | |
-2 letters: artefact, cartages, castrate, regattas, seacraft, teacarts. | |
-3 letters: agrafes, carafes, carates, cartage, gastrea, regatta, scatter, targets, teacart, teargas. | |
-4 letters: afters, agates, agrafe, arecas, attars, caesar, cagers, carafe, carate, carats, carets, cartes, caster, caters, crafts, crates, facers, facets, farces, faster, fatter, fracas, gaster, graces, grafts, grates, greats, reacts, reatas, recast, retags, stacte, stager, stater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-g-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stagecrafts. | |
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