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stage | hop |

As a noun stage

is a phase.

As a verb stage

is to produce on a stage, to perform a play.

As an adjective hop is

hollow, sunken.

stage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A phase.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage .
  • * (1791–1875)
  • Lo! Where the stage , the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
  • A floor or storey of a house.
  • (Wyclif)
  • 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)
  • a parcel sent you by the stage
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • I went in the sixpenny stage .
  • (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.
  • * Jeffrey
  • A stage signifies a certain distance on a road.
  • * 1858 , (Samuel Smiles), (Robert Stephenson), 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 .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=(Emerson Hough)
  • , title= 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, […].}}
  • (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)
  • When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Music and ethereal mirth / Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= 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, level

    Derived terms

    * sage on the stage * stagecoach * stage-door Johnny * stage whisper * staging area

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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.
  • (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
  • To cause to pause or wait at a designated location.
  • 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

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    hop

    English

    (wikipedia hop)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hoppen, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short jump
  • A jump on one leg.
  • A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
  • (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
  • (US, dated) A dance.
  • (computing, telecommunications) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
  • Derived terms
    * bunny hop * car hop * on the hop * sock hop

    Verb

    (hopp)
  • To jump a short distance.
  • * 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
  • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  • To jump on one foot.
  • To be in state of energetic activity.
  • Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop .
    The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping .
  • To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
  • I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
    He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
    He hopped a train to California.
  • (usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
  • We were party-hopping all weekend.
    We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
  • (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
  • (Dryden)
  • To dance.
  • (Smollett)
    Synonyms
    (jump a short distance) jump, leap

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the plant ( ) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
  • (usually plural) the , dried and used to brew beer etc.
  • (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 177:
  • ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
  • The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
  • Derived terms
    * hopback * hoppy

    Verb

    (hopp)
  • To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
  • (Mortimer)

    Etymology 3

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a narcotic drug, usually opium
  • Derived terms
    * hop joint

    Anagrams

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