Stage vs Backup - What's the difference?
stage | backup |
A phase.
* (1800-1859)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (1791–1875)
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.
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
(label) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
(label) 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.
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* 1858 , (Samuel Smiles), (Robert Stephenson),
*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=(Emerson Hough)
, title= (label) 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.
(label) 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.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
(Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
To cause to pause or wait at a designated location.
A reserve or substitute.
(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
An accumulation of material that halts the flow or movement of something.
(law enforcement) reinforcements
Standby, reserve or extra.
(computing) That is intended as a backup.
As nouns the difference between stage and backup
is that stage is a phase while backup is a reserve or substitute.As a verb stage
is to produce on a stage, to perform a play.As an adjective backup is
standby, reserve or extra.stage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage .
- Lo! Where the stage , the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
- (Wyclif)
- a parcel sent you by the stage
- I went in the sixpenny stage .
- A stage signifies a certain distance on a road.
The Life of George Stephenson: Railway Engineer, p.356
- He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages .
The Purchase Price, chapter=3 , passage=The Mount Vernon , favoured by a good stage of water, soon cleared the narrow Monongahela channel, passed the confluence, and headed down under full steam, […].}}
- When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
- Music and ethereal mirth / Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.}}
Synonyms
* (phase) tier, levelDerived terms
* sage on the stage * stagecoach * stage-door Johnny * stage whisper * staging areaVerb
(en-verb)- The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
- The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
- We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
- to stage data to be written at a later time
Anagrams
* * ----backup
English
Alternative forms
* back-upNoun
(en noun)- If the goalkeeper is injured, we have a backup .
- After the power failure, we had to restore the database from backup .
- The blockage caused a backup in the plumbing.
- He's got a gun - you better send for backup .
Synonyms
* (reserve ): reserve, stand-in, spare, substitute * (computing: copy of a file or record ): * (accumulation of material that halts flow ): block, blockageAdjective
(-)- I am only a backup player.
- Make a backup copy of that file.