See Also: bud stage(medicine)
End stage(health)
stage(1)(dictionary)
stage(2)(dictionary)
stage(dictionary)
end stage(medicine)
cap stage(medicine)
stage right(dictionary)
stage name(dictionary)
stage fright(dictionary)

stage (iou)



stage verb. ME.
[from STAGE noun.]
verb trans. Erect, build. rare. Only in ME.
verb trans. Provide with a stage or staging. Foll. by about. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
verb trans.
a. Represent (a character or incident) on stage; put (a person) into a play. E17.
b. Present (a play etc.) on stage. L19.
H. Carpenter Columbia University's music department had agreed to stage the..opera. P. Dally He wrote five plays..although only two were staged.
c. transf. Arrange the occurrence of, esp. dramatically. E20.
Observer The Stock Market staged a vigorous recovery. C. Achebe Protest marches were staged up and down the land.
verb trans. Bring (a person) to trial for an offence (esp. before the ecclesiastical courts). Scot. L17-E18.
verb intrans.
a. Travel by stages; esp. travel by stage or stagecoach. Now rare. L17.
b. Of a pilot or aircraft: make a brief landing in the course of a long journey. L20.
verb trans. Put (plants) on a stage in a greenhouse etc.; exhibit (plants) at a show. M19.
verb trans. & intrans. Astronautics. Separate (a section or stage) from the upper or remaining part of a rocket. M20.
verb trans. Cause to pass through stages; bring about in stages. M20.
verb trans. Medicine. Diagnose or classify as exhibiting a particular stage in the progression of a disease or condition, esp. cancer. M20.