Store vs Stage - What's the difference?
store | stage |
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
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(label) A place where items may be purchased.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
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.
As verbs the difference between store and stage
is that store is while stage is to produce on a stage, to perform a play.As a noun stage is
a phase.store
English
Noun
(en noun)- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply * (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also * (in computing) memoryDerived terms
* company store * drugstore * general store * variety store * give away the store * in store * mind the store * put store in * set store by * storage * storebought * storefront * storehouse * storekeeper * storeroomVerb
(stor)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
Derived terms
* store away * store upSee also
* ("store" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----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