Stagemanship vs. Stage: What's the Difference?
Stagemanship and Stage Definitions
Stagemanship
Technique of performing well on the stage.
Stage
A raised and level floor or platform.
Stage
A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented.
Stage
An area in which actors perform.
Stage
The acting profession, or the world of theater. Used with the
The stage is her life.
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Stage
The scene of an event or of a series of events.
Stage
A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.
Stage
A scaffold for workers.
Stage
A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.
Stage
The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg
Proceeded in easy stages.
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Stage
A stagecoach.
Stage
A level or story of a building.
Stage
The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point
At flood stage.
Stage
A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process
The toddler stage of child development.
The early stages of a disease.
Stage
A point in the course of an action or series of events
Too early to predict a winner at this stage.
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Stage
One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.
Stage
(Geology) A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.
Stage
(Electronics) An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier.
Stage
To exhibit or present to an audience
Stage a boxing match.
Stage
To prepare (a house) for sale by altering its appearance.
Stage
To produce or direct (a theatrical performance)
That director has staged Hamlet in New York City.
Stage
To arrange the subjects of (a movie, for example) in front of a camera to achieve a desired effect
The director stages romantic scenes well.
Stage
To arrange and carry out
Stage an invasion.
Stage
(Medicine) To determine the extent or progression of (a cancer, for example).
Stage
To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation
A play that stages well.
Stage
To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey
"tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw" (Frederick Forsyth).
Stage
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.
Stage
(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.
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.
Stage
(theater) 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.
Stage
A floor or storey of a house.
Stage
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
Stage
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
Stage
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.
Stage
(dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
Stage
(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.
A stage of ten miles
Stage
(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
A 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
Stage
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
He placed the slide on the stage.
Stage
(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?
Stage
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
Stage
(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
Stage
An internship.
Stage
(transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
Stage
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
Stage
(transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
The workers staged a strike.
A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday.
Stage
(transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
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
Stage
To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
Stage
(astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.
Stage
A floor or story of a house.
Stage
An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
Stage
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
Stage
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
Stage
The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
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.
Stage
A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on the public stage.
When we are born, we cry that we are comeTo this great stage of fools.
Music and ethereal mirthWherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
Stage
The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
Stage
A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
Stage
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.
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road.
He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
Stage
A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
Stage
A large vehicle running from station to station for the accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
I went in the sixpenny stage.
Stage
One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zœa stage.
Stage
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
Stage
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
Stage
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?
Stage
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
Stage
The theater as a profession (usually `the stage');
An early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
Stage
Any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something;
All the world's a stage
It set the stage for peaceful negotiations
Stage
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
Stage
A section or portion of a journey or course;
Then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
Stage
A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
Stage
Perform (a play), especially on a stage;
We are going to stage `Othello'
Stage
Plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
