Word Finder - stages

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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

She's in the early stages of pregnancy, no more than eight weeks.

Several of the rooms on either side were open, revealing couples in various stages of undress, a room with junkies shooting up and potheads lighting up, and a room filled with what looked like people sleeping.

As for the rest, you are working through the human stages of grief.

They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.

He related his tale of woe while enjoying the never-ending pleasure of seeing the woman he loved in various stages of nakedness.

Four stages can be recognized.

There, amid a cluster of floats, Boy Scouts and ballerinas, four of Fred's lady friends were in the final stages of hanging bunting about a beautiful old touring car whose vintage or name Dean couldn't identify.

The exact meaning of these features is not clear, but if it be remembered (a) that the Levites of post-exilic literature represent only the result of a long and intricate development, (b) that the name "Levite," in the later stages at least, was extended to include all priestly servants, and (c) that the priesthoods, in tending to become hereditary, included priests who were Levites by adoption and not by descent, it will be recognized that the examination of the evidence for the earlier stages cannot confine itself to those narratives where the specific term alone occurs.

The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.

In South Australia boys had to undergo three stages of initiation in a place which women were forbidden to approach.

Leaving the main body of his party at Menindie on the Darling under a man named Wright, Burke, with seven men, five horses and sixteen camels, pushed on for Cooper's Creek, the understanding being that Wright should follow him in easy stages to the depot proposed to be there established.

The oak requires shelter in the early stages of growth; in England the Scotch pine is thought best for this purpose, though Norway spruce answers as well on suitable ground, and larch and other trees are sometimes substituted.

This compromise was refused by the parliament, which proceeded on the 10th to press through its last stages the "bill for a new representation."

Dunbar attested his constancy and gave proof that Cromwell was a master of the tactics of all arms. Preston was an example like Austerlitz of the two stages of a battle as defined by Napoleon, the first flottante, the second foudroyante.

The pianoforte trios of Haydn are perhaps the only-works of first-rate artistic importance in which there is no doubt that the earlier stages of the new art do not admit of sufficient polyphony to give the instruments fair play.

The depression was probably formed during the later stages of the growth of the Alps.

When sessile gonophores are produced, they may show all stages of degeneration.

A-D are stages common to both; from D arises the hydrotheca (E) or the gonotheca (F); th, theca; st, stomach; 1, tentacles; m, mouth; mb, medusa-buds.

His training was conducted in its early stages by his father, and was later supplemented by tutors.

It shows how much the gift of writing is, in the early stages of its development, the gift of mimicry.

All around lay the flesh of different animals--from men to horses--in various stages of decomposition; and as the wolves were kept off by the passing men the dog could eat all it wanted.

I deem it my duty to report to Your Majesty the condition of the various corps I have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days' march.

Whilst no small amount of observational work has been done in these new branches of atmospheric electricity, the science has still not developed to a considerable extent beyond preliminary stages.

More peculiarly his own is Hegel's great doctrine The of contradiction, whereby opposing views of truth " rank as stages in one progressive definition.

Two stages in the development of the otocyst can be recognized, the first that of an open pit FIG.

In some cases the buds do not become detached at once, but the stolon continues to grow and to produce more buds, forming a " bud-spike " (Knospencihre), which consists of the axial stolon bearing medusa-buds in all stages of development.

We see how different this metaphysical conception is from that scientific notion of cosmic evolution in which the lower stages are the antecedents and conditions of the higher.

In his Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte, Herder adopts Leibnitz's idea of a graduated scale of beings, at the same time conceiving of the lower stages as the conditions, of the higher.

Nature and mind (which are the two sides, or polar directions, of the one absolute) are each viewed as an activity advancing by an uninterrupted succession of stages.

Meckel proceeds to exemplify the thesis, that the lower forms of animals represent stages in the course of the development of the higher, with a large series of illustrations.

In embryology the method finds its expression in the limitation of comparisons to the corresponding stages of low and high forms and the exclusion of the comparisons between the adult stages of low forms and the embryonic stages of higher forms.

In addition to these lines, all tadpoles show more or less distinctly a small whitish gland in the middle of the head between the eyes, the so-called frontal gland or pineal gland, which in early stages is connected with the brain.

All the surviving forms, however, have a completely established double system with the specific characters alluded to, and since there is every reason to believe that the conditions of evolution of the primitive Pteridophyte must have been essentially similar to those of the Bryophytes, the various stages in the evolution of the conducting system of the latter (p. 732) are very useful to compare with the arrangements met with in the former.

In other cases a most intricate arrangement of secondary tissue masses is produced, quite impossible to interpret unless all stages of their development have been followed.

More emphasis is, however, now laid on the action of the plastid in polymerization, while the initial stages are still not definitely ezplaincd.

The fate of these inorganiccompounds has not been certainly traced, but they give rise later on to the presence in the plant of various amino acid amides, such as leucin, glycin, asparagin, &c. That these are stages on the way to proteids has been inferred from the fact that when proteids are split up by various means, and especially by the digestive secretions, these nitrogen-containing acids are among the products which result.

It is a very common event to find the early stages of injury indicated by pale yellow spots, which turn darker, brown, red, black, &c., later, e.g.

The applications of anthropogeography to human uses give rise to political and commercial geography, in the elucidation of which all the earlier departments or stages have to be considered, together with historical and other purely human conditions.

The red type is peculiar to America, inhabiting every climate from polar to equatorial, and containing representatives of many stages of culture which had apparently developed without the aid or interference of people of any other race until the close of the 15th century.

Prolegomena is a conclusive elaboration of the initial stages of criticism.

At all stages of religious development, however, and more especially in the case of the more primitive types of cult, prayer as thus understood occurs together with, and shades off into, other varieties of observance that bear obvious marks of belonging to the same family.

We may therefore assume that, in acts of public worship at any rate, prayer and its magico-religious congeners are at all stages resorted to as a "means of grace," even though such grace do not constitute the expressed object of petition.

The normal ambo, when the church contained only one, had three stages or degrees, one above the other, and it was usually mounted by a flight of steps at each end.

There are two marked stages in the struggle.

Thus the history of nobility at Athens supplies a close analogy to the earlier stages of its history at Rome, but it has nothing answering to its later stages.

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.

The vegetable-feeders attack leaves, herbaceous or woody stems and roots; frequently different parts of a plant are attacked in the two active stages of the life-history; the cockchafers, for example, eating leaves, and their grubs gnawing roots.

Macleay's classification (1825), which rested principally on the characters of the larvae, is almost forgotten nowadays, but it is certain that in any systematic arrangement which claims to be natural the early stages in the life-history must receive due attention.

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

They are vegetable feeders, both in the perfect and larval stages, and are often highly injurious.