stage
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Is stage a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) 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.Examples: "The first stage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upper stage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit."broadly
2. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.Examples: "The band returned to the stage to play an encore."; "Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage."; "Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age."
3. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.dated
4. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.Examples: "a stage of ten miles"; "A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road."; "He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages."dated
5. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.Examples: "a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter"
6. (video games) A level; one of the areas making up the game.Examples: "How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?"; "Additionally, popular supporting characters make cameos on certain stages, such as in Smashville, where you'll find Tom Nook and other familiar faces from Animal Crossing."Synonyms: level
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.Examples: "The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice"."transitive
2. (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.Examples: "The workers staged a strike."; "A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday."; "But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash."transitive
3. (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.Examples: "We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag."; "to stage data to be written at a later time"transitive
4. (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed toExamples: "One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]"transitive
5. (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.Examples: "In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar."
6. (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.CanadaUSintransitive
noun (English)
1. (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.Examples: "It doesn’t matter that recent reporting on the stage economy of Copenhagen […] has revealed a pattern of abuse and dangerous working conditions for unpaid interns. In “The Bear,” the stage is a dream: Marcus’s tasks are simply to learn from a skilled but kind and patient mentor, to get out and about and feel inspired, and to come up with some new dishes of his own."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.Examples: "I’ve been chosen to stage at Coloniál, the Michelin-starred restaurant that I will one day lie about running. Stage is restaurant-speak for free labor, but I’m unconcerned."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary