stage
/steɪd͡ʒ/ noun A1- A phase. · He is in the recovery stage of his illness.· Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.
- One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. · The band returned to the stage to play an encore.
- A floor or storey of a house.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service. · The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.· In the 1880s he ran a stage that connected various interior towns with the coastal port.
- A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
Plural stages
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Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
Anne was the victim of an overwhelming attack of stage fright.
Old Baron Dowson said the night before he was hanged that in my case what the law had gained the stage had lost.
It is not necessary at the present stage to go further into the matter."
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