| Stage |
n. |
A floor or story of a house. |
| Stage |
n. |
An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. |
| Stage |
n. |
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging. |
| Stage |
n. |
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. |
| Stage |
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. |
| Stage |
n. |
A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs. |
| Stage |
n. |
The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope. |
| Stage |
n. |
A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. |
| Stage |
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. |
| Stage |
n. |
A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result. |
| Stage |
n. |
A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. |
| Stage |
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. |
| Stage |
v. t. |
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. |
| Stage director |
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One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts. |
| Stage fright |
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Nervousness felt before an audience. |
| Stage manager |
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One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage director. |
| Stage-struck |
a. |
Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor. |
| Stagecoach |
n. |
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers. |
| Stagecoachman |
n. |
One who drives a stagecoach. |
| Stagecoachmen |
pl. |
of Stagecoachman |
| Stagehouse |
n. |
A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses. |
| Stagely |
a. |
Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. |
| Stageplay |
n. |
A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. |
| Stageplayer |
n. |
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer. |
| Stager |
n. |
A player. |
| Stager |
n. |
One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. |
| Stager |
n. |
A horse used in drawing a stage. |
| Stagery |
n. |
Exhibition on the stage. |
