Stage vs Development - What's the difference?
stage | development |
A phase.
* (1800-1859)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
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, 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.
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
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(countable) Something which has developed.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real estate development.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (''cf. research).
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.
As nouns the difference between stage and development
is that stage is a phase while development is (uncountable) the process of developing; growth, directed change.As a verb stage
is to produce on a stage, to perform a play.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
* * ----development
English
(wikipedia development)Noun
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Of more significance in the nature of branch development ; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.