Difference between revisions of "Stage"

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A floor or story of a house. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) 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; as, a stage of ten miles. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope. </p>

<p> [[Stage]] n. G. Properly, one step or degree of elevation, and what the French call etage, we call a story. Hence, </p> 1. A floor or platform of any kind elevated above the ground or common surface, as for an exhibition of something to pubic view as a stage for a mountebank a stage for speakers in public a stage for mechanics. Seamen use floating stages, and stages suspended by the side of a ship, for calking and repairing. 2. The floor on which theatrical performances are exhibited, as distinct from the pit, &c. Hence, 3. The theater the place of scenic entertainments. <p> Knights, squires and steeds must enter on the stage. </p> 4. Theatrical representations. It is contended that the stage is a school or morality. Let it be inquired, where is the person whom the stage has reformed? 5. A place where any thing is publicly exhibited. <p> When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. </p> 6. Place of action or performance as the stage of life. 7. A place of rest on a journey, or where a relay of horses is taken. When we arrive at the next stage, we will take some refreshment. Hence, 8. The distance between two places of rest on a road as a stage of fifteen miles. 9. A single step degree of advance degree of progression, either in increase or decrease, in rising or falling, or in any change of state as the several stages of a war the stages of civilization or improvement stages of growth in an animal or plant stages of a disease, of decline or recovery the several stages of human life. 10. instead of stage-coach, or stage-wagon. A coach or other carriage running regularly from one place to another for the conveyance of passengers. <p> I went in the six-penny stage. </p> <p> A parcel sent by the stage. American usage. </p> <p> STAGE, To exhibit publicly. Not in use. </p>