A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
A floor or storey of a house.
A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
A phase.
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
An internship.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
To orchestrate; to carry out.
To place in position to prepare for use.
To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.