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English to English noun
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any distinct time period in a sequence of events |  | Example: we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected
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a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | | Example: a remarkable degree of frankness
at what stage are the social sciences?
source: wordnet30
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a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | | Example: he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box
source: wordnet30
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the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | | Example: an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
source: wordnet30
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a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | | Example: we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles
source: wordnet30
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a section or portion of a journey or course | | Example: then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
source: wordnet30
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any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | | Example: All the world's a stage
it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
source: wordnet30
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a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | | source: wordnet30
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A floor or story of a house. | | source: webster1913 verb
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perform (a play), especially on a stage | | Example: we are going to stage `Othello'
source: wordnet30
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plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | | Example: the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
source: wordnet30
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To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. | | source: webster1913
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