pre-edit (iou) and stage(2) (iou)

pre-edit (iou)

pre-edit verb trans. M20.
[from PRE- 1 + EDIT verb.]
Edit or sort as a preliminary to later editing; prepare for computer processing by the addition or alteration of material.
pre-editor noun a person, apparatus, or program that performs pre-editing M20.

stage(2) (iou)

stage noun. ME.
[Aphet. from Old French estage dwelling, stay, situation (mod. etage storey) from Proto-Romance, from Latin stare stand: see -AGE.]
I. A thing to stand on, & derived senses.
a. A storey or floor of a building. Now rare. ME.
b. A shelf in a cupboard etc. Now only spec., a shelf or tier of shelves for plants in a greenhouse etc. LME.
c. Architecture. A transom dividing a window; a section of a window so divided. Also, the space between the set-offs of butresses. LME.
d. A level of water in a river or lake. US. E19.
e. Geology. Orig., a level in the hierarchy of rock classification. Now, a division of a stratigraphic series, composed of a number of zones and corresponding to an age in time; the rocks deposited during any particular age. M19.
f. Geology. A glacial or interglacial period. L19.
A (specified) position or step in a hierarchy. Long rare. ME.
A raised platform, now esp. one used as a landing place or for storing or drying Food on; a scaffold, now esp. one used in building etc. ME.
b. A raised plate or ledge on which an object is placed for inspection through a microscope etc. L18.
c. Hist. A boxing ring. E19.
spec. The platform in a theatre on which plays etc. are performed; fig. the scene of action. M16.
centre stage = stage centre below. hold the stage: see HOLD verb. on-stage: see ON preposition. open stage: see OPEN adjective. play off the stage: see PLAY verb. revolving stage: see REVOLVING. set the stage: see SET verb1. stage centre, stage left, stage right (in) the centre or (on) the left side or (on) the right side of a stage, facing the audience. take the stage: see TAKE verb. tread the stage: see TREAD verb.
Listener From her first entry on stage..she was radiant. P. Fitzgerald His life had to be acted out, as though on a stage. Engineering It was remarkable that the company was..surviving on the world stage.
b. The acting or theatrical profession; the Art of Writing or presenting plays. Usu. with the. L16.
go on the stage: see GO verb. lyric stage: see LYRIC adjective 1.
M. Allingham Someone bought a wreath. The Stage is very conventional.
II.
A period of time; an appointed date. ME-E16.
III. Division of a journey or process.
A stopping-place, esp. a regular one, on a journey spec. (Hist.) a regular stopping-place, esp. an inn, on a stagecoach route where horses were changed and travellers taken up and set down. ME.
P. Francis We..must engage Th' unwilling Horse to pass his usual Stage.
b. fig. A point in a journey through a subject, life, etc. E17.
The distance between two stopping-places on a journey. E17.
A. J. Cronin The final stage of his tedious journey. A. Duggan Daily we covered the usual legionary stage of twenty miles.
b. Any of the sections into which a long-distance race is divided. M20.
Guardian A mountain stage of the Tour de France.
ellipt. A stagecoach. L17.
Z. Grey A stage arrived twice a week..and the driver..had letters. E. Jong Thus..I came to be riding in the London stage.
A point or period in a process or in the development of a thing; spec. (a) Medicine a definite period in the development of a disease, marked by specific symptoms; (b) Biology each of the several periods in the development and growth of animals and plants; freq. with specifying word. M18.
P. Ackroyd We can discuss..editing and production at a later stage. D. Madden At this stage in her life Jane dressed badly. A. Macrae It's just a stage she's going through. C. Easton In its earliest stages multiple sclerosis is..difficult to diagnose.
ellipt. = fare-stage s.v. FARE noun1. E20.
a. Electronics. A part of a circuit usu. comprising one transistor or valve, or two or more functioning as a single unit, and the associated resistors, capacitors, etc. E20.
b. Astronautics. Each of two or more sections of a rocket that have their own engines and propellant and are jettisoned when their propellant becomes exhausted. M20.
IV.
= STADIUM 1. rare. LME-M16.
Attrib. & comb.: Esp. in the senses 'of or pertaining to the theatrical stage', as stage design, stage lighting, stage version, 'seen on the stage, represented in drama', as stage hero, stage heroine. Special combs., as stage box: over the proscenium of a theatre; stagecoach Hist. a large closed horse-drawn coach running regularly between two places with fixed stages along the route; stagecoachman Hist. the driver of a stagecoach; stagecraft skill or experience in Writing or staging plays; stage direction (a) an instruction in the text of a play as to the movement, position, tone of delivery, etc., of an actor, or sound effects or lighting; (b) = stage-Management below; stage director (a) a stage-manager; (b) = DIRECTOR 4; stage-dive verb intrans. perform an act of stage-diving; stage-diver a person who stage-dives; stage-diving the practice (esp. among audience members) of jumping from the stage at a rock concert or Other event to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd below; stage door an entrance for use by actors, workmen, etc., giving access from the street to behind the stage of a theatre; stage-door Johnny (slang, chiefly US), a man who frequents stage doors seeking the company of actresses; stage effect (a) effect on the audience of what is shown on stage; (b) a spectacular effect produced on the stage; an artificial or theatrical effect produced in real life; stage-entrance = stage door above; stage fright nervousness on appearing before an audience, esp. for the first time; stage hand a person who moves scenery or props during the performance or production of a play etc.; stage lighting imitation lighting produced for the stage etc.; stage-manage verb trans. (a) be the stage-manager of; (b) arrange and control for effect; stage-Management the job or craft of a stage-manager; stage-manager orig., the person responsible for the production and performance of a play, and the stage arrangements; now spec. the person responsible for lighting and Other mechanical arrangements for a play etc.; stage name: assumed for professional purposes by a theatrical performer; stage play a play performed on stage, now esp. as opp. to being broadcast etc.; stage-player arch. an actor, a player; stage-playing arch. acting; stage presence the (forceful) impression made by a theatrical performer on an audience; stage rights exclusive rights to perform a particular play; stage school a drama school; stage-set = SET noun1 15; stage-setting the disposition of the actors and props on a stage; stage-struck adjective filled with a passionate desire to become an actor; stage thunder imitation thunder produced for the stage etc.; stage whisper (a) a loud whisper meant to be heard by others than the person addressed; (b) an aside; stage-whisper verb trans. say in a stage whisper.
stagea'bility noun the ability of a play etc. to be presented on stage E20.
stageable adjective (of a play etc.) able to be presented on stage E20.
stagelike adjective resembling that produced on the stage M16.
stagery noun (rare) exhibition on the stage M17.
stageworthy adjective (of a play etc.) worthy of presentation on the stage E19.

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