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Staging vs Setting - What's the difference?

staging | setting |

As verbs the difference between staging and setting

is that staging is present participle of lang=en while setting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between staging and setting

is that staging is a performance of a play while setting is the time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

As an adjective setting is

that disappears below the horizon.

staging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (theater) A performance of a play
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 15, author=S.L. Wisenberg, title=On Stage: cartoon characters in a drama of death, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings ) was much more solemn. }}
  • A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
  • The business of running stagecoaches.
  • The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
  • Anagrams

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    setting

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
  • The act of setting.
  • the setting of the sun
    the setting , or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
  • A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
  • A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
  • the volume setting on a television
  • The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
  • Hunting with a setter.
  • Something set in, or inserted.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxviii. 17
  • Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
  • A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
  • *Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
  • *Bach's setting of the Magnificat
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that disappears below the horizon
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