What is the meaning of stage?

noun

• 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"
  • synonyms: phase
• 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"
  • synonyms: degree, level, point
• 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"
• The theater as a profession (usually `the stage'. )
  • usage: "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
• 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"
  • synonyms: stagecoach
• A section or portion of a journey or course.
  • usage: "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
  • synonyms: leg
• 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"
• A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.
  • synonyms: microscope stage

verb

• Perform (a play), especially on a stage.
  • usage: "we are going to stage `Othello'"
  • synonyms: present, represent
• Plan, organize, and carry out (an event. )
  • usage: "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
  • synonyms: arrange