What does stage mean

Crossword clues for stage

stage

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

stage

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a crucial stage

▪ The peace talks are now at a crucial stage.

a leg/stage of a journey (=one part of a journey)

▪ We set off on the final leg of our journey.

a phase/stage of a project

▪ The first phase of the project was due to be completed by the end of 2008.

a stage actor

▪ Most stage actors are very badly paid.

a stage crew (=working to produce a play)

▪ There is a cast of 100 and a stage crew of twenty.

a stage play (=a play in a theatre)

▪ I occasionally write reviews of local stage plays.

a stage whisper (=a loud whisper that you intend everyone to hear)

▪ 'What’s going on?' Rory said, in a stage whisper.

a stage/phase of a cycle

▪ the recovery phase of the economic cycle

a star of stage and screen (=a star who has been in plays and films)

▪ Now this much-loved star of stage and screen has been made a Dame.

an early stage (=near the beginning of a process)

▪ Patients can be treated with drugs, especially at the early stage of the disease.

appear on television/stage

▪ He appeared on national television to deny the claims.

booed off stage (=they shouted ‘boo’ until she left the stage)

▪ She was booed off stage .

closing stages/seconds/minutes etc

▪ in the closing years of his life

developmental stages

▪ the developmental stages of childhood

final stages

▪ the final stages in their relationship

formative years/period/stages etc (=the period when someone’s character develops)

▪ He exposed his children to music throughout their formative years.

hold/mount/stage an exhibition formal (= have an exhibition)

▪ Hayward Gallery is mounting an impressive exhibition of new British artists.

hold/stage a demonstration (=organize and take part in one)

▪ In April, students began holding demonstrations to demand more freedom.

hold/stage a rally

▪ The students had been refused permission to hold their rally in Victory Square.

hold/stage a sit-in

▪ Several thousand students staged sit-ins and protest marches.

hold/stage an event (=organize a public event)

▪ The charity plans to stage several fund-raising events this year.

hold/stage/mount a protest

▪ Opponents of the plan have staged several protests.

initial stage/phase/period

▪ the initial stages of the disease

landing stage

preliminary stages

▪ the preliminary stages of the competition

produce/stage a play (=arrange its performance)

reach a point/stage

▪ I’ve reached the point in my life where I need a new challenge.

stage a rebellion (=organize it)

▪ Farmers who opposed the tax staged a rebellion that forced Washington to back down.

stage a strike (=organize a short strike)

▪ Health workers will stage a two-day strike next week.

stage and screen (=the theatre and films)

▪ a star of stage and screen

stage direction

stage door

stage fright

▪ Den suffered terribly from stage fright.

stage left

▪ He entered stage left.

stage make-up (=make-up that actors wear in plays)

▪ the elaborate stage make-up for ‘The Lion King’

stage manager

stage name

stage right

▪ She had to exit stage right.

stage whisper

staged...walk-out

▪ Members of the Irish delegation staged a walk-out.

stage/mount/launch a coup (=attempt one)

▪ Later that year, the rebels staged an unsuccessful coup.

stage...reconstruction

▪ Detectives want to stage a reconstruction of events.

staging area

staging post

▪ a staging post on the flight from Australia

suffered...from stage fright

▪ Den suffered terribly from stage fright.

take sth a stage/step further

▪ Critics want the government to take this a stage further and ban the film altogether.

television/film/stage etc adaptation

▪ He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel.

the halfway stage/mark/point

▪ They’ve just reached the halfway stage of the project.

the initial/early/final stages of negotiation

▪ The offer was in the final stages of negotiation.

transitional period/stage etc

▪ a transitional period during the switch to the Euro

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

crucial

▪ Moreover, the approval of Theodore remained crucial at every stage.

▪ We have arrived at the sixth crucial stage in the evolution of life.

▪ This was a crucial stage in the main plot.

▪ All these constraints form the third crucial stage of the evolution of life on earth.

▪ If you do have doubts and problems about the job these should be discussed privately before things reach a crucial stage.

▪ This is the fifth crucial stage in the evolution of life.

▪ Crunchy-topped broccoli To save time during the crucial final stages, cook the broccoli beforehand, rinse under cold water and drain.

▪ Smyth will miss at least two All Ireland league games at a crucial stage of the season.

developmental

▪ Endoderm is not, however, representative of small intestine of later developmental stages.

▪ Currently, injectable forms of disulfiram are in the developmental stage.

▪ The transgenic mouse lines also provide a source for future studies on early developmental stages of the immune system.

▪ Each of the sections traces a developmental stage in a cross-generational sequence.

▪ The appropriate percentage of oxygen in the gas phase at different developmental stages is shown in Figure 6.

▪ These conclusions must be taken with caution because food composition values for vitamin B6 are still in the developmental stage. 10.

▪ Blocking any one of these developmental stages stops the whole process.

▪ I was more tolerant of her developmental stages.

different

▪ Even this part of the production process is itself broken down into many different stages at Kalmar.

▪ They employ several drugs, each tailored to disrupt the virus at different stages in its replication process.

▪ Now, however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times.

▪ I wrote about it at four different stages and consistently underestimated her chances or overrated her opponents.

▪ They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months.

▪ This may explain why the early stages of intoxication feel qualitatively different from later stages.

▪ It is the responsibility of teachers themselves to decide on and introduce terms as they become necessary at different stages in teaching.

▪ The three verses offer snapshots of a family at different stages of life and the changes our times have worked on them.

early

▪ We would stress that all these possible developments are at a very early stage of thinking.

▪ Many of these new efforts are in their earliest stages.

▪ Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project, which was still at an early operational stage in 1979.

▪ The early stages could go on for days, with doctors telling patients they had the flu or pleurisy.

▪ An intermediary can keep its client's name secret, at least in the early stages.

▪ The procedure also gives your solicitors the opportunity to peruse your file at an earlier stage.

▪ Some problems are typically ill defined in the early stages and then require refining during their resolution.

▪ If the make-up of the device is not appropriate to its application then it must be changed at an early stage.

final

▪ As a result, the reorganization only reached its final stages in the summer of 1977.

▪ But not Adams, who finally landed one of three spots last week in the final stage of the 1996 archery trials.

▪ Until the final stages of the war the future form of radical and socialist politics in Britain remained obscure.

▪ Ideally, the final stage of your analysis is to offer a tentative conclusion regarding the issue.

▪ Northwest Airlines' mechanics are in the final stage of negotiations that could lead to a strike there next month.

▪ The whole course is finished off with a word or two about the final stage of the recording process: the mix.

▪ The property has been recently constructed and is in the final stages of finishing touches.

further

▪ There is, however, a further stage forward.

▪ In order to test these theories two further stages are required.

▪ A further stage in the scheme is much more interesting: this is the stage of the communal gens.

▪ A further stage of more radical agitation, including the objective of a united Ireland, would follow.

▪ This revision was a further stage in the territorial reordering which Edward undertook between 1473 and 1475.

▪ The second was added to the first, over the cheek and lower jaw, to give a further stage of disintegration.

▪ What power does the voter have over a local contractor who is one further stage removed from public control and accountability?

▪ This would involve a further stage of development.

initial

▪ A mollusc past the initial stages of growth increases in size without significantly changing the orientation and relative proportions of its organs.

▪ The following section will demonstrate how the drug careers of the interviewees developed following this initial stage.

▪ The first two categories represent the initial stages of involvement in learning to be a nurse.

▪ At the initial planning stage there is probably no need to worry too much about the three attainment targets.

▪ It really should be attractive in the initial stages.

▪ In contrast, discrimination against black students occurs at the initial entry stage into the labour market.

▪ Thus in the initial stages Elliott and Harris were flung on their own resources.

international

▪ He could have been the world's greatest piper, a significant mathematician, an international stage performer.

▪ They needed at least a two goal win to reach the international stages of the competition.

▪ Britain now, on the international stage, is a busted flush.

▪ He says the two companies will form a strong group which will play an important part on the international stage.

▪ They like to wear the cloak of socialism because it's trendy on the international stage.

▪ The deadlock also reflected the general feeling of uncertainty on the international stage engendered by events in the Soviet Union during August.

▪ It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage.

key

▪ He saw groups as moving through four key stages of development as follows.

▪ Ministers have shifted their focus from primary standards to the lack of pupil progress at key stage 3.

▪ The plan aims to satisfy Mr Blunkett's desire for increased flexibility at key stage 4.

▪ The programmes of study for each key stage provide opportunities to use units as links between key stages.

▪ In the Mathematics and Science Orders, the government set down ranges of levels for each key stage.

▪ This is reflected in the fact that geography provides a substantial part of the environmental teaching in key stages 1 to 4.

▪ These elements, validation, approval and verification, will be applied at key stages in the operation of an award.

late

▪ The lawyer's time will add to costs and is unlikely to result in time savings at a later stage.

▪ But it invited the rivals to come back at a later stage.

▪ Detailed documents may be produced and these will need summarising soas to be usable in the later stages of planning and prioritising.

▪ More patients in the elective group need angioplasty at a later stage.

▪ Audetto, who was present in the later stages, once denied to me that it transpired entirely as Niki says.

▪ Even at this late stage, the choice he has made can be reversed.

▪ Several theories of planetary formation include the possibility of disturbance to axial spins during the late stages of formation of a planet.

▪ With only 11 declared at the latest acceptance stage, the Doncaster Classic looked somewhat below par.

preliminary

▪ Louise said it had passed through preliminary planning stages, with certain details to be finalised.

▪ The industrial revolution, then, was not a preliminary primitive stage required for the hatching of the more sophisticated information revolution.

▪ All except one have failed to get past the preliminary test stage.

▪ Discussions are in preliminary stages and it could be weeks before an announcement is made, the person said.

▪ Its accounts, however accurate at this level, remain stuck at this preliminary stage of scientific enquiry.

▪ In the preliminary stages of the summit the biggest story by far was the Reagan-Gorbachev matchup.

▪ This passed through preliminary stages and was debated during the period prior to the date of the election.

▪ All are in the preliminary stages, until architectural historians survey each house to determine which have historic value.

various

▪ On the table in front of the sofa was a vase holding four pink roses, the blooms in various stages of uncurled perfection.

▪ He wanted to examine peoples in various stages of develop-ment.

▪ Between 1882 and 1889 she divided her time between tours of the United States and appearances on various London stages.

▪ Despite these important similarities in parental reactions to various malformations, parents progress through the various stages of reaction differently.

▪ Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process.

▪ Payment is made in two or more instalments at various stages of the project.

▪ To many cultures, at various stages in history, it was obvious that the earth was flat.

▪ Some have as many as a hundred photographs and captions describing the various stages of the project.

■ NOUN

centre

▪ At the city's Bluecoat Concert Hall, dance has once again taken centre stage.

▪ There are many others like him, lurking in the background when they should be centre stage.

▪ By day, the Pirates Club takes centre stage with games, activities and competitions - even the parents join in!

▪ This was Abba's tour de force, a brilliantly structured melodrama which put Faltskog's fragile, emotional vocal centre stage.

▪ Control of the money supply should occupy centre stage in the conduct of macroeconomic policy.

▪ After years in the doldrums, Opec has grabbed centre stage once more.

▪ The debate about who should pay what tax in the underdeveloped world has moved centre stage.

▪ One particularly macabre statue of Saint Sebastian, arrows poking out of every limb, was given centre stage.

door

▪ He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door.

▪ Musicians were so desperate to hear Michelangeli that they borrowed violin cases and sneaked in through the stage door.

▪ Just before I turned into the stage door, I passed Charles Fox, the theatre make-up shop.

▪ He stopped by on his night off, was let in the stage door, and stood in the wings.

▪ Cards and flowers had already come to the stage door, and Bernie was making mocking remarks at every opportunity.

▪ Before each performance, he slid casually through an unnoticeable stage door into a world unknown to most.

▪ He heard a thunk as some one hit the crush bar on the inside of the stage door.

▪ Eliza went out the stage door into the alley.

manager

▪ Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club.

▪ Making Alvin the stage manager was the first step, she believed, in involving him in something outside of class work.

▪ For a company of our size to tour without a stage manager and only one technician is a nightmare.

▪ He is also a founder member and stage manager of the Calder Valley Junior theatre Society.

▪ He had become a stage manager and officer of the Minnehaha Minstrels.

▪ John, the stage manager, went with her to the X-ray department.

▪ Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine's almost successful bid for the premiership.

▪ Well, we know the importance of assistant stage managers, because where would we be without the tea?

world

▪ Mrs Thatcher had emerged with much more confidence on the world stage by 1987.

▪ If he were acting on the world stage, he would have won a Nobel Peace Prize long ago.

▪ Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness, while she prepared to tread the world stage.

▪ I had come to believe that on the world stage little occurred that was strictly coincidental.

▪ The drama to be told was an epic of cosmic dimensions and significance, played out on the world stage.

▪ At the same time, it was beginning to flex its muscles on the world stage.

▪ A new generation of cultural activists is taking its causes on to the world stage.

▪ On the world stage, he was the brightest star.

■ VERB

appear

▪ She frequently appeared on the London stage and other leading opera houses, and sang with Paul Robeson at Caernarfon.

▪ Hundreds of area students cheered and screamed as the president appeared on the outdoor stage.

▪ Most performers appear on stage so briefly that we barely connect with them.

▪ The first time he appeared on stage was in 1848, with Jack Diamond.

▪ Hall, having appeared on stage once before in Bus Stop, brings only a wealth of inexperience.

▪ In most instances there appear to be five stages through which we all progress.

▪ He appeared on stage at Wembley as part of a Tory rally in support of Margaret Thatcher.

▪ Ellie appeared on stage to a standing ovation.

mark

▪ Three poems mark the stages of this journey which is psychological as well as aesthetic.

▪ Today is particularly important because it marks the three-quarter stage of a very significant goal achievement.

▪ But such sentences can be seen as marking a stage in linguistic growth.

▪ It marks the half way stage in the itinerary and the half way stage in the narrative.

move

▪ He saw groups as moving through four key stages of development as follows.

▪ He further postulates that until each conflict is resolved positively, we can not move to the next stage or conflict.

▪ Cram wallflowers into containers now to be moved to centre stage in late spring.

▪ The proceedings now have moved to the stage of determining a penalty.

▪ Peasants tended to move onwards in short stages, so their progression across Siberia was not sudden.

▪ Some move through the stages slowly, while others seem to zip up across and over at a brisker pace.

▪ A woman was moving on stage, a woman wearing a red dress.

▪ Your career will have moved from an establishment stage into a maintenance stage.

reach

▪ They've just reached the half way stage of the project but it's taken them five years to get this far.

▪ However, Wright resigned as speaker and from the House before the committee reached the stage of deciding a punishment.

▪ It is an important element in preventing conflicts reaching the stage of war.

▪ As I stood looking out at the crowd, I felt I had finally reached a new stage in my life.

▪ If you do have doubts and problems about the job these should be discussed privately before things reach a crucial stage.

▪ The trouble can mount as the child reaches the stage when he is supposed to begin learning emotional ideas.

▪ Single-cell protein production from non-photosynthetic organisms has also reached the stage of commercial availability, mainly as animal feed.

▪ Each reawakening or rebirth symbolizes the reaching of a higher stage of maturity and understanding.

set

▪ The passing of the Liverpool Corporation Act 1921 set the stage for inter-war policing.

▪ Thus, it further sets the stage for later discussion of the other four pillars.

▪ But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all.

▪ That sets the stage for the matrix arrangement.

▪ But that simply set the stage for a final, beautiful flourish from Robins.

▪ I brought items from home to set up the stage.

▪ I have gone into this at some length because it sets the stage for what Wittgenstein says.

▪ So much for setting a stage.

walk

▪ I actually felt when we walked out on that stage that we might be able to meet the challenge.

▪ As Angus used to say, the suit can walk to the stage itself.

▪ He walked around the stage, perfecting his stunts, or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors.

▪ Sweating profusely, soaking through his robe, Havens raises his ax in triumph and walks off the makeshift stage.

▪ Miss Jackie Du Val walked on to the stage, arms raised high.

▪ Before they realized the speech was over, he turned and began to walk from the stage.

▪ In the end, we were left with eleven versions of Felsenstein walking around the stage.

▪ They all walked on to the big stage and turned into Olivier doing Hamlet, chewing up the scenery.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be/take centre stage

▪ As she says herself, this is one lady born to be centre stage.

▪ But in her latest role it is her clothes, rather than lack of them, which take centre stage.

▪ By day, the Pirates Club takes centre stage with games, activities and competitions - even the parents join in!

▪ Charles and Diana were to take centre stage in the drama.

▪ Meanwhile, Heidi took centre stage at London Fashion Week.

▪ She was able to take centre stage, providing comic relief while Zephyr shared intimate moments with her special friends.

▪ There are many others like him, lurking in the background when they should be centre stage.

concluding remark/section/stage etc

▪ In that case, he may have to tape his concluding remarks before the story is actually over.

▪ In the concluding remarks not only the main conclusions related to diffusion and production are summarized.

▪ In the concluding section we shall speculate as to why this might have been. 6.

▪ Section 3.4 provides a rather briefer coverage of internal relationships, whilst section 3.5 contains some concluding remarks.

▪ The concluding section considers the relationship between the external and internal auditor.

▪ The exhibition will be basically chronological in format with a concluding section of twenty-one drawings.

▪ These are points to be returned to in our concluding section.

▪ This concluding section explores selected implications for practice.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ 'How's your dissertation coming on?' 'I'm at the writing-up stage.'

▪ At this stage of the election campaign, it is impossible to say who will win.

▪ Construction of the bridge is in its final stage.

▪ Dan has never gone through a rebellious stage.

▪ Geneva has been the stage for many such conferences.

▪ Many women feel depressed during the early stages of pregnancy.

▪ The initial stages of the disease are difficult to recognize.

▪ We reached the stage where we'd given up any hopes of seeing our daughter alive.

▪ We saw a video showing the second stage in the development of a human embryo.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ At what stage did her briefs tear loose?

▪ Bureaucracies do not simply enter the policy-making process at the stage of implementation.

▪ In other words, each state in the production process can only be begun once the previous stage has been completed.

▪ It was also a stage of ambitious dreams being overtaken by reality.

▪ The orchestra was restricted to a semicircle in view of the needs of Roman drama and, in front of this was a raised stage.

▪ We must have had 20 groups of costumed revelers trot by us up on stage.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

carefully

▪ His public appearances are few and carefully staged.

▪ Many, of course, are carefully staged, clearly presented, and very provocative.

■ NOUN

comeback

▪ Nor did Peter regain effective control of his kingdom as Henry, although defeated at Nájera, staged a political comeback.

▪ By 1995 all the Big Three had staged a comeback in sales and profits.

▪ Yet he staged an amazing comeback to pound out a points win.

▪ The rain is over, the Falcons are dying on the tube, the sun is staging a comeback.

▪ Again this year, just when it seemed his Olympic goal was slipping away, Dolan staged another remarkable comeback.

conference

▪ The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.

cup

▪ Barnes said Munich, Dortmund, Berlin and Stuttgart were interested in staging the new cup tournament.

demonstration

▪ This is why it is important to avoid reducing fundamentalism to a handful of agitators who stage demonstrations in the streets.

▪ Southend fans staged a lengthy demonstration against the chairman after the 2-1 defeat by Ipswich at Roots Hall on Saturday.

▪ I thought to stage a demonstration that would surprise Professor Summerlee here.

▪ Over on the opposite corner, the Guardian Angels staged a counter demonstration.

▪ But Brook supporters have decided to hit back by staging their own demonstration to support the centre's work.

▪ People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance.

▪ Disabled workers will be staging a demonstration outside the County Council in Trowbridge before Councillors meet to decide their future.

event

▪ Organisers are staging another event at Moortown on September 6 and it could be followed by a World Over-80's tournament.

▪ And so news directors will not disregard staged events, not even those that appear in the daybook.

▪ For further information on staging sporting events contact the National Indoor Arena on 021-.

▪ However, the growth of ambush marketing poses a clear danger to those involved in staging major sports events.

▪ After staging endless fund raising events Ursula raised the three thousand pounds needed for the surgery.

▪ This part of the book will give you an expert - and simple - guide to planning and staging such events.

exhibition

▪ She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year.

▪ The Craftworks gallery in Belfast's Linenhall Street is currently staging an exhibition featuring products geared towards children.

games

▪ But there were fears that Manchester's chances of staging the games in the year 2000 have been further damaged.

▪ The Clippers are covering a portion of the costs of staging the games at the Sports Arena.

▪ It was the second time that Edinburgh had staged the Commonwealth Games.

▪ The committee is still pushing to raise the $ 1. 6 billion needed to stage the Games.

▪ And one prominent club, Bangor City, want to go even further by staging all their home games in midweek.

▪ The Santa Clara team stages regular games.

march

▪ Lewis' handlers would like to complete negotiations within three weeks and stage the bout in March or April.

▪ Protests continued in June in Belgrade as students staged anti-Milosevic marches.

play

▪ They're staging a play aimed at teaching the elderly how to deal with conmen and women.

▪ She had driven to Julian to watch the display because her eighth-graders will soon be staging a play on the Civil War.

▪ Read in studio A group which has been juggling with fire for the past year is staging its first play.

▪ Even staging a play needs government approval.

▪ Word spread and the association became involved in the Royal Shakespeare Company's plan to stage the play in London.

protest

▪ Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

▪ They staged protests in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

▪ As we noted above, the riders staged an organised protest against the police searches of team hotels and vehicles.

▪ Twenty travellers are staging a protest outside a police station demanding the return of their vehicles.

▪ They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.

▪ Residents found out about the hostel plans from a secret tip-off and are now staging a local protest march this Sunday.

▪ Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.

▪ But they have also staged their own protests.

raid

▪ Time allowed 00:15 Read in studio Police have staged an early morning raid in a bid to crack a stolen car racket.

▪ But my favorite has to be the Animal Liberation Front dorks who staged a daring raid on a mink farm.

recovery

▪ Berwick crashed at home to Newcastle last Saturday, but staged a quick recovery with a last-heat win at Glasow.

▪ Government forecasts acknowledge the economy is unlikely to stage a recovery this year.

▪ Table-toppers Wigan staged a dramatic recovery at Salford to win 26-18.

▪ It has staged a remarkable recovery from the apparently moribund state of the late fifties and early sixties.

▪ Alongside him, Chris Bryan also staged a marvellous late recovery, coming back from 14-11 down to win 21-16.

series

▪ In response the union staged as series of stoppages.

▪ The trade union confederations staged a series of four-hour regional general strikes on Sept. 22-29 in protest at the budget.

show

▪ Its base is a beautifully restored former school, where Harry once staged his show.

▪ But other companies also are reportedly vying for the right to stage shows and concerts there.

strike

▪ He reportedly staged a hunger strike on May 24 in support of the demand for a Constitutional Assembly.

▪ Unemployed workers staged strikes, and hungry peasants in many areas seized estates and took over village councils.

▪ Trade unions are spreading: teachers staged a long strike last year.

▪ Not till ten years later, however, did the London dockers stage their great historic strike.

▪ They've already staged four one day strikes and this lunchtime they took their campaign to Downing Street.

▪ To prevent them being expressed, you stage a pre-emptive strike.

▪ For instance, when the political prisoners staged their hunger strike during the Pope's visit, we broadcast their demands.

student

▪ Protests continued in June in Belgrade as students staged anti-Milosevic marches.