stag | (noun) adult male deer | - |
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(noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: hart |
stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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(noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
(noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
(noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
(noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
(noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
(noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
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stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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stagehand | (noun) an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production | Synonyms: stage technician |
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stager | (noun) someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed | Synonyms: stage manager |
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(noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, veteran, warhorse |
stagflation | (noun) a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation) | - |
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stagger | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stumble |
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staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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staggerer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, totterer |
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staggers | (noun) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | Synonyms: blind staggers |
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staghead | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: hexenbesen, witch broom, witches' broom |
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staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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staginess | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: theatricality |
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staging | (noun) travel by stagecoach | - |
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(noun) getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket | - |
(noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: scaffolding |
(noun) the production of a drama on the stage | Synonyms: theatrical production |
stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |