Definition: a section or portion of a journey or course
Usage: then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
Similar words: travel, traveling, travelling
Definition: the act of going from one place to another
Usage: he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel
Synonyms: stage
Definition: a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
Usage: he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box
Similar words: platform
Definition: a raised horizontal surface
Usage: the speaker mounted the platform
Synonyms: stage, microscope stage
Definition: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
Similar words: platform
Definition: a raised horizontal surface
Usage: the speaker mounted the platform
Synonyms: stage, stagecoach
Definition: a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
Usage: we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles
Similar words: coach, coach-and-four, four-in-hand
Definition: a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Synonyms: stage
Definition: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')
Usage: an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage
Similar words: theater, theatre, dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy
Definition: the art of writing and producing plays
Synonyms: stage
Definition: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
Usage: All the world's a stage--Shakespeare; it set the stage for peaceful negotiations
Similar words: scene
Definition: the place where some action occurs
Usage: the police returned to the scene of the crime
Synonyms: level, stage, point, degree
Definition: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Usage: a remarkable degree of frankness; at what stage are the social sciences?
Similar words: state
Definition: the way something is with respect to its main attributes
Usage: the current state of knowledge; his state of health; in a weak financial state
Definition: any distinct time period in a sequence of events
Usage: we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period
Definition: plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
Usage: the neighboring tribe staged an invasion
Similar words: initiate, pioneer
Definition: take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
Usage: This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants
Synonyms: stage, represent, present
Definition: perform (a play), especially on a stage
Usage: we are going to stage `Othello'
Similar words: re-create
Definition: create anew
Usage: Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale