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Stumble vs Stager - What's the difference?

stumble | stager |

As nouns the difference between stumble and stager

is that stumble is a fall, trip or substantial misstep while stager is an actor on the stage.

As a verb stumble

is to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

stumble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
  • An error or blunder.
  • A clumsy walk.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

    Synonyms

    * (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See also

    Verb

    (stumbl)
  • To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He stumbled up the dark avenue.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
  • To make a mistake or have trouble.
  • To cause to stumble or trip.
  • (figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
  • * Milton
    • False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
  • * John Locke
    • One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
  • To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
  • * Dryden
    • Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
  • * C. Smart
    • Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.

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    stager

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An actor on the stage.
  • One who stages a theatrical performance.
  • * 1994 , Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (page 271)
    • Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints
  • One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
  • A horse used in drawing a stage.

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