(n.) A floor or story of a house.
(n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be
performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
(n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or
the like; a scaffold; a staging.
(n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
(n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic
compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
(n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair
occurs.
(n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed
to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
(n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house;
a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
(n.) 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; as, a stage of ten miles.
(n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
(n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
(n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development
and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa
stage; zoea stage.
(v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display
publicly.
