Word Finder - stage

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A phase.

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Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage.

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

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The band returned to the stage to play an encore.

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A floor or storey of a house.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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a stage of ten miles

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

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

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

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He placed the slide on the stage.

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A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

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

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• level

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

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

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To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

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The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".

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To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

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The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.

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To orchestrate; to carry out.

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A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday.

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To place in position to prepare for use.

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We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.

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To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to

He was in the stage play Boo!

She has now reached the question stage of her development.

The bed was huge, taking center stage in the room.

The only business experience she had was the goat dairy, the non-functional farm and a horse ranch that had been in the fetal stage for years.

Wouldn't the bones be taken for a stage prop?

He's forever in that stage that precedes a perfect storm.

Quinn went to work setting the stage for the visit.

They sang together and everyone in the theater began clapping and shouting, while the man and woman on the stage--who represented lovers-- began smiling, spreading out their arms, and bowing.

The stage pulled into Bradley in a cloud of twilight dust.

Whether it was the personality or the fact that she was entering another stage was hard to tell.

Rosenberg (1909) adduces evidence fox the existence of chromosomes or prochromosomes in resting nuclei in a large number of plants, but most observers consider that the chromosomes during the resting stage become completely resolved into a nuclear network in which no trace of the original chromosomes can be seen.

The stage kitchen was dark, except for red candles around the counter area where he did the prep for whatever he was making.

During this stage the cuticle draws away from the imaginal cuticle which is forming beneath, ultimately becoming separated as a thin transparent pellicle through which the form of the adult can be seen.

Other pits, connecting cells not belonging to the same branch, are, however, formed at a later stage.

The triple division of tissues is laid down in most cases at 1 very early period of developmentin the flowering plants usuall3 before the resting stage is reached.

Cork is also formed similarly in the root after the latter has passed through its primary stage as an absorptive organ, and its structure is becoming assimilated to that of the stem.

Even in the higher flowering plants, in which the processes of the absorption of substances from the environment has been most fully studied, there is a stage in their life in which the nutritive processes approximate very closely to those of the group last mentioned.

When this stage is reached the invading tubes and their ramifications frequently disappear, leaving the cells full of the bacterioids, as they have been called.

The cells of the tip at any given moment may be sensitive, but in a few days the power of receiving the stimulus has passed to other and younger cells which then constitute the tip. The power of appreciating the environment is therefore to be associated with the protoplasm only at a particular stage of its development and is transitory in its character.

During the embryonic stage the lids are fused together, and either become separated shortly before the bird is hatched, as is the case with most Nidifugae, or else the blind condition prevails for some time, in the young Nidicolae.

The pursuing Egyptians were drowned, and the miraculous preservation of the chosen people at the critical moment marks the first stage in the national history?

In the West the Church enters the medieval stage of its history with the death of Gregory, while in the East even John of Damascus is rather a compiler of patristic teaching than a true "father."

At a later stage, when the distinction between magic and religion is more clearly recognized XXII.

But it took firm root on Norman soil; it made its way to England at an early stage of its growth, and from that time it went on developing and improving on both sides of the Channel till the artistic revolution came by which, throughout northern Europe, the Romanesque styles gave way to the Gothic. Thus the history of architecture in England during the 11th and 12th centuries is a very different story from the history of the art in Sicily during the same time.

On the other hand, neither sex of the latter at any age puts off its striped garb - the mark, it may be pretty safely asserted, of an inferior stage of development.

The second stage was for the sub-deacon who read the epistle (facing the altar); and the third for the subordinate clergy who read other parts of scripture.

But both at Rome and at Athens we see, at a stage earlier than the final reform, an attempt to set up a standard of wealth, either instead of or alongside of the older standard of birth.

The pupa stage of the ant-lion is quiescent.

The majority of apologists in the past have further believed in an infallible Bible; but they admit this position can only be reached at a late stage in the argument.

As regards growth after hatching, all beetles undergo a "complete" metamorphosis, the wing-rudiments developing beneath the cuticle throughout the larval stages, and a resting pupal stage intervening between the last larval instal1 and the imago.

Sharp to indicate a stage in the life-history of an insect between two successive castings of the cuticle.

The pupal stage is passed in an earthen cell, just beneath the surface of the ground.

The first larval stage is the "triungulin," a tiny, active, armoured larva with long legs (each foot with three claws) and cercopods.

After a resting (pseudo-pupal) stage and another larval stage, the pupa is developed.

This is followed by a resting (pseudo-pupal) stage, and thisby two successive larval stages like the grub of a chafer.

But the final stage in the conquest of the city was yet to come.

I enjoy having a play described to me while it is being acted on the stage far more than reading it, because then it seems as if I were living in the midst of stirring events.

In the center of the stage sat some girls in red bodices and white skirts.

But if the aim of the battle was what actually resulted and what all the Russians of that day desired--to drive the French out of Russia and destroy their army--it is quite clear that the battle of Tarutino, just because of its incongruities, was exactly what was wanted at that stage of the campaign.

Brooks regards these organs as sensory, serving for the sense of balance, and representing a primitive stage of the tentaculocysts of Trachylinae; Linko, on the other hand, finding no nerve-elements connected with them, regards them as digestive (?) in function.

Swinburne agrees with Gifford in thinking Ford the author of the whole of the first act; and he is most assuredly right in considering that "there is no more admirable exposition of a play on the English stage."

Notwithstanding the wealth of the country in minerals and metals of all kinds, and the endeavours made by government to encourage mining, including the imposition of protective Mining tariffs even against Finland (in 1885), this and the related and re- industries are still at a low stage of development.

Holden developed the use of liquid fuel on the Great Eastern railway to a point beyond the experimental stage, and used it instead of coal with the engines running the heavy express traffic of the line, its continued use depending merely upon the relative market price of coal and oil.

For other areas we have often no description of the procedure at all, but merely the briefest outline of the actual process of slaughter, and we are ignorant whether the form of the rite is in reality simple (either from a loss of primitive elements or from never having advanced beyond the stage at which we find it), or whether the absence of detail is due to the inattention or lack of interest of the observer.

The religion of the Hebrew race - properly the Jews - now enters on a new stage, for it should be observed that it was Amos, Isaiah and Micah - prophets of Judah - who laid the actual foundations.

In 1757 Voltaire came to reside at Lausanne; and although he took but little notice of the young Englishman of twenty, who eagerly sought and easily obtained an introduction, the establishment of the theatre at Monrepos, where the brilliant versifier himself declaimed before select audiences his own productions on the stage, had no small influence in fortifying Gibbon's taste for the French theatre, and in at the same time abating that "idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman."

This first or cold stage of the paroxysm varies much in length; in temperate climates it lasts from one to two hours, while in tropical and subtropical countries it may be shortened.

It is followed by the stage of dry heat, which will be prolonged in proportion as the previous stage is curtailed.

Sleep may overtake the patient in the midst of the sweating stage, and he awakes, not without some feeling of what he has passed through, but on the whole well, with the temperature fallen almost or altogether to the normal, or it may be even below the normal; the pulse moderate and full; the spleen again of its ordinary size; the urine that is passed after the paroxysm deposits a thick brick-red sediment of urates.

The varied traditions up to this stage cannot be regarded as objective history.