staged

stage  (stj)

n.

1. A raised and level floor or platform.

2.

a. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented.

b. An area in which actors perform.

c. The acting profession, or the world of theater. Used with the: The stage is her life.

3. The scene of an event or of a series of events.

4. A platform on a microscope that supports a slide for viewing.

5. A scaffold for workers.

6. A resting place on a journey, especially one providing overnight accommodations.

7. The distance between stopping places on a journey; a leg: proceeded in easy stages.

8. A stagecoach.

9. A level or story of a building.

10. The height of the surface of a river or other fluctuating body of water above a set point: at flood stage.

11.

a. A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process: the toddler stage of child development; the early stages of a disease.

b. A point in the course of an action or series of events: too early to predict a winner at this stage.

12. One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.

13. Geology A subdivision in the classification of stratified rocks, ranking just below a series and representing rock formed during a chronological age.

14. Electronics An element or a group of elements in a complex arrangement of parts, especially a single tube or transistor and its accessory components in an amplifier.

v. staged, stag·ing, stag·es

v.tr.

1. To exhibit or present on or as if on a stage: stage a boxing match.

2. To produce or direct (a theatrical performance).

3. To arrange and carry out: stage an invasion.

4. Medicine To determine the extent or progression of (a cancer, for example).

v.intr.

1. To be adaptable to or suitable for theatrical presentation.

2. To stop at a designated place in the course of a journey: "tourists from London who had staged through Warsaw" (Frederick Forsyth).

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[Middle English, from Old French estage, from Vulgar Latin *staticum, from Latin status, past participle of stre, to stand; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

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stageful n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	staged - written for or performed on the stage; "a staged version of the novel" unstaged - not performed on the stage
	2.	staged - deliberately arranged for effect; "one of those artfully staged photographs" arranged artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"