Meaning

• A phase.

  "Completion of an identifiable stage of maintenance such as removing an aircraft engine for repair or storage."

• A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.

  "The band returned to the stage to play an encore."

• 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.

  "The stage pulled into town carrying the payroll for the mill and three ladies."

• A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

• A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.

  "a stage of ten miles"

• The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

  "a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter"

• The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

  "He placed the slide on the stage."

• A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

  "How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?"

• A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.

• The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

Meaning

• To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

  "The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice"."

• To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

  "The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective."

• To orchestrate; to carry out.

  "A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday."

• To place in position to prepare for use.

  "We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag."

• To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to