stage vs time

stage

noun
  • An internship. 

  • 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. 

  • A floor or storey of a house. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

time

noun
  • An experience. 

  • The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration. 

  • The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. 

  • The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined. 

  • The hour of childbirth. 

  • A numerical indication of a particular moment. 

  • A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). 

  • How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. 

  • An instance or occurrence. 

  • A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. 

  • A quantity of availability of duration. 

  • The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. 

  • The serving of a prison sentence. 

  • An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. 

  • Ratio of comparison. 

  • The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. 

  • Closing time. 

  • Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play. 

  • A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. 

  • A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. 

  • Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. 

verb
  • To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. 

  • To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. 

  • To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. 

  • To measure, as in music or harmony. 

intj
  • The umpire's call in prizefights, etc. 

  • Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. 

  • A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served. 

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