A phase.
(by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
(theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
A floor or storey of a house.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
(Canada, Quebec) An internship.
(cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
(transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
(transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
(transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
(transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
(astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
(intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.