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English

Etymology

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

stage (plural stages)

1. A phase.
   • 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights p.66

     "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
     "I though naked was sexy."
     "Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
2. (by extension) 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.

3. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
   • 1829, Charles Sprague, Curiosity

     Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde:, Intentions

     The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.

4. A floor or storey of a house.

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5. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
6. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
7. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
   • 1711 April 14, Jonathan Swift, letter to Stella

     I went in the sixpenny stage.

   • a parcel sent you by the stage

8. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
9. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
   • 1807, Francis Jeffrey, "Clarkson on Quakerism", in The Edinburgh Review April 1807

     A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.

   • 1858, Samuel Smiles, Robert Stephenson, The Life of George Stephenson: Railway Engineer, p.356

     He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
10. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

11. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

12. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

    Synonym: level

13. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
14. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

Synonyms

• (phase): tier, level
• (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sut?ji)

Translations

Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

1. (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

2. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

3. (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.

4. (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.

5. (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
   • 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (page 940)

     One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]

6. (rocketry) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.

Derived terms

• hot-stage

Synonyms

• (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake

Translations

Anagrams

• Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sta?ge

Noun

stage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n)

1. probation, induction
2. apprenticeship
3. internship

Related terms

• stagiair

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +? -age (whence modern French étage). Cognates and borrowings are common in other European languages, including Italian stage, Czech stáž, Dutch stage, Portuguese estágio and Serbo-Croatian staž.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?/

Noun

stage m (plural stages)

1. internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date
2. probation, induction

Related terms

• stagiaire (trainee)

Descendants

References

• “stage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gâtes, gâtés

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?/

Noun

stage m (invariable)

1. internship

   Synonym: tirocinio

Usage notes

• The noun is often, but incorrectly, pronounced IPA^(key): /?stejd??/ or IPA^(key): /?st?jd??/ via an erroneous connection to English stage. Sometimes the word is also given the meaning of English "stage" (as in a platform where a performance happens).

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?d?(?)/

Noun

stage (plural stages or stage)

1. A tier of a structure; a floor or storey:
   1. The topmost story of a building; a rooftop.
   2. A deck (surface of a ship)
   3. A floor of a vehicle or on a mount.
2. A raised floor; a platform or podium.
   1. A ledge or shelf (projecting storage platform)
   2. A stage; a platform facing the audience.
   3. A box seat; a premium seat for an audience member.
3. A duration or period; an amount of time.
4. A stage or phase; a sequential part.
5. A tier or grade; a place in a hierarchy.
6. A locale or place; a specified point in space.
7. Heaven (home of (the Christian) God)
8. (rare) The cross-beam of a window.
9. (rare) A seat or chair.
10. (rare) A state of being.

Derived terms

• forstage

Descendants

• English: stage

References

• “st??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ske?l/, [ske???]
• Hyphenation: scale
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scale, from Latin sc?la, usually in plural sc?lae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *scadla, from scand? (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

   Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

   The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.

3. Size; scope.

   There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

   This map uses a scale of 1:10.

5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

   the decimal scale; the binary scale

8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

   Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.

Hyponyms

• (earthquake): Mercalli scale, Palermo scale, Richter scale
• (economy): wage scale

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)

Translations

See also

• degree
• ordinal variable

References

• scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)

2. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

   We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

3. (transitive) To climb to the top of.

   Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.

   • 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.

     A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.

4. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

   That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

5. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

Hyponyms

• scale back
• scale down
• scale up

Related terms

• scaling ladder

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skal?. Cognate with Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Also related to English shell, French écaille, Italian scaglia.

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.

1. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
2. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
3. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
4. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
5. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
6. Limescale.
7. A scale insect.
8. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.

Derived terms

• antiscalant
• criticola scale

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)

Translations

Verb

scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)

1. (transitive) To remove the scales of.

   Please scale that fish for dinner.

   Synonym: descale

2. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

   The dry weather is making my skin scale.

3. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

   to scale the inside of a boiler

4. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even

5. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

   Some sandstone scales by exposure.
6. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
7. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

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Translations

Etymology 3

From Old Norse skál (“bowl”). Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal; German Schale; Old High German sc?la; Gothic ???????????????????????? (skalja, “tile, brick”), Old English scealu (“cup; shell”). Cognate with scale, as in Etymology 2.

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. A device to measure mass or weight.

   After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.

1. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

Usage notes

• The noun is often used in the plural to denote a single device (originally a pair of scales had two pans).

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)

Translations

Further reading

• scale up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• -clase, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, laces, selca

Italian

Noun

scale f pl

1. plural of scala

Anagrams

• calse, salce

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French escale.

Alternative forms

• skale, scalle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ska?l(?)/

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. flake

Descendants

• English: scale
• Yola: skaulès (plural)

References

• “sc?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Latin sc?la.

Alternative forms

• skale, schale

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. ladder

Descendants

• English: scale

References

• “sc?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse [Term?].

Alternative forms

• shale, schale

Noun

scale (plural scales)

1. hut, hovel

References

• “sc?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.