<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.</li><li>a raised platform or floor, as for speakers, performers, etc.</li><li>the platform on which the actors perform in a theater.</li><li>the stage, the theater, especially acting, as a profession.</li><li>a place of rest on a journey; a regular stopping place of a stagecoach or the like, for the change of horses, mules, etc.</li><li>the distance between two places of rest on a journey; each of the portions of a journey.</li><li>a portion or period of a course of action, of life, etc.: the adolescent stage of human development.</li><li>any one of the major time periods in the development of an insect, as the embryonic, larval, pupal, and imaginal stages.</li><li>a major phase of the economic or sociological life of human beings or society.</li><li>a division of stratified rocks corresponding to a single geologic age.</li><li>the small platform of a microscope on which the object to be examined is placed.</li><li>an element in a complex mechanism, as a tube and its accessory structures in a multiple amplifier.</li><li>a section of a rocket containing a rocket engine or cluster of rocket engines, usually separable from other such sections when its propellant is exhausted.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage.</li><li>to furnish with a stage, staging, stage set, etc.</li><li>to write, direct, or produce (a play) with the action taking place as if in a specified locale or time.</li><li>to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), especially for dramatic or public effect.</li><li>to classify the natural progression of (a disease, especially cancer).</li><li>to prepare (a home) for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate a higher selling price.</li><li>to be suitable for presentation or performance on the stage.</li><li>to travel by stagecoach.</li></ul>