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(noun) a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Carribean cruise" |
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Synonyms: leg |
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Related Words: fare-stage, travel, traveling, travelling |
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(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) |
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Synonyms: arrange, bring about |
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Related Words: initiate, phase, pioneer |
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(verb) perform (a play), esp. on a stage; "we are going to stage "Othello" |
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Synonyms: present |
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Related Words: localize, place, re-create, set |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: backstage, forestage, mise en scene, offstage, platform, proscenium, setting, stage setting, theater stage, theatre stage, wing |
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(noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination |
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Synonyms: microscope stage |
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Related Words: platform |
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(noun) (usually "the stage"); the theater as a profession; "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" |
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Related Words: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theater, theatre |
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(noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations" |
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Related Words: scene |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: stagecoach |
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Related Words: coach, coach-and-four, four-in-hand |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: phase |
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Related Words: amount of time, apogee, chapter, culmination, diakinesis, diplotene, leptotene, luteal phase, menstrual phase, pachytene, period, period of time, phase of cell division, safe period, secretory phase, seedtime, time period, zygotene |
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(noun) 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?" |
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Synonyms: degree, level, point |
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Related Words: acme, climax, elevation, end point, extent, height, peak, pinnacle, plane, quickening, resultant, standard of life, standard of living, state, state of the art, summit, superlative, top, ultimacy, ultimateness |
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