Definitions for staging

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staging stag·ing

Spelling: [stey-jing]

IPA: /ˈsteɪ dʒɪŋ/

Staging is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in staging (agginst).

Definitions for staging

noun

1. the act, process, or manner of presenting a play on the stage.
2. a temporary platform or structure of posts and boards for support, as in building; scaffolding.
3. home staging.
4. Rocketry. the in-flight separation of a rocket stage from the remaining stages of a multistage missile or launch vehicle.
5. the business of running stagecoaches.
6. the act of traveling by stages or by stagecoach.
7. a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
8. a raised platform or floor, as for speakers, performers, etc.
9. Theater. the platform on which the actors perform in a theater. this platform with all the parts of the theater and all the apparatus back of the proscenium.
10. the stage, the theater, especially acting, as a profession:
11. Movies. sound stage.
12. the scene of any action.
13. a stagecoach.
14. a place of rest on a journey; a regular stopping place of a stagecoach or the like, for the change of horses, mules, etc.
15. the distance between two places of rest on a journey; each of the portions of a journey.
16. a portion or period of a course of action, of life, etc.:
17. Entomology. any one of the major time periods in the development of an insect, as the embryonic, larval, pupal, and imaginal stages. Also called stadium. any one of the periods of larval growth between molts.
18. Economics, Sociology. a major phase of the economic or sociological life of human beings or society:
19. Geology. a division of stratified rocks corresponding to a single geologic age.
20. the small platform of a microscope on which the object to be examined is placed.
21. Radio. an element in a complex mechanism, as a tube and its accessory structures in a multiple amplifier.
22. Rocketry. a section of a rocket containing a rocket engine or cluster of rocket engines, usually separable from other such sections when its propellant is exhausted.

Idioms

1. by easy stages, working, traveling, etc., slowly, with frequent pauses; unhurriedly, with many stops; gradually.
2. go on the stage, to become an actor, especially in the theater:
3. hold the stage, to continue to be produced, as a play or other theatrical production. to be the center of attention.
4. on stage, performing, especially as an actor.

verb (used with object)

1. to represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage:
2. to furnish with a stage, staging, stage set, etc.
3. to write, direct, or produce (a play) with the action taking place as if in a specified locale or time:
4. to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), especially for dramatic or public effect:
5. to classify the natural progression of (a disease, especially cancer).
6. to prepare (a home) for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate a higher selling price:

verb (used without object)

1. to be suitable for presentation or performance on the stage:
2. to travel by stagecoach.

Origin of staging

1275-1325; Middle English (see stage, -ing¹)

Examples for staging

The bucket was dumped by a man on a staging erected on the pier form.

The group encompasses Byrne's art-rock solitariness and the dissociation effects in the spare—somewhat Godardian—staging.

His staging is of the simplest, and therefore, the most natural.

How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy?

At the time, Madonna was staging her first real comeback and she chose videos as her battleground.

Co-founders Rob Dickens and Brad Scudder are staging their GBR event in ten cities in this year.

The staging was then moved into position for another column.

This staging was, perhaps, twenty feet from the ground, and the latter frozen.

As the Roman emperors knew during the staging of the gladiator games at the Coliseum, so FIFA knows now: The mob must be appeased.

It is the most effective scene in the world for the amount of staging.