stage vs staging

stage

noun
  • A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers. 

  • 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 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. 

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. 

staging

noun
  • The act of journeying in stagecoaches. 

  • The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity. 

  • An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment. 

  • A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building. 

  • The act or process of putting on an event. 

  • A performance of a play 

  • The business of running stagecoaches. 

  • The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it. 

  • The scenery and/or organization of actors' movements on stage. 

  • The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression. 

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