stage

Definitions

• A phase.
• (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• A floor or storey of a house.
• A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• (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.
• (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.