English Dictionary

stage

/steɪd͡ʒ/

noun

A phase. / (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

The actor performed on the stage with great enthusiasm.

意味（1）

A phase.

He is in the recovery stage of his illness.

意味（2）

(by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

The first stage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upper stage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit.

意味（3）

(theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.

The band returned to the stage to play an encore.

意味（4）

A floor or storey of a house.

意味（5）

A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.

意味（6）

A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.

意味（7）

A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.

The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies.

意味（8）

(dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

意味（9）

(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.

a stage of ten miles

意味（10）

(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

意味（11）

The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

He placed the slide on the stage.

意味（12）

(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

意味（13）

A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.

When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.

意味（14）

(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

意味（15）

(Canada, Quebec) An internship.