different between stage vs value

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

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

Alternative forms

• valew (in the sense of “valour”)

Etymology

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value , feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin val?re (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“to be strong”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l'?, IPA^(key): /?vælju?/
• Hyphenation: val?ue
• Rhymes: -ælju?

Noun

value (countable and uncountable, plural values)

1. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

   Synonym: worth
2. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
3. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.

   He does not share his parents' values.

   family values
4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
   • 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch, Principles of Political Economy

     An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
5. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.

6. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
   • 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design

     When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction.

   • 2010, Rose Edin and ?Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light

     Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values.

7. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.

8. Precise meaning; import.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

     Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic

9. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.

10. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.

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    • My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

11. (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.

    • And him with equall valew countervayld

Synonyms

• valence

Hyponyms

• added value
• economic value
• face value
• intrinsic value
• lvalue
• market value
• note value
• par value
• rvalue
• time value

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

value (third-person singular simple present values, present participle valuing, simple past and past participle valued)

1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.

2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
3. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.

4. To hold dear.

Synonyms

• appreciate
• assess
• esteem
• prize
• rate
• respect
• treasure
• valuate
• worthen

Antonyms

• belittle
• derogate
• despise
• disesteem
• disrespect

Translations

See also

• value system

References

• value at OneLook Dictionary Search
• value in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• value in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• value in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• uveal

French

Verb

value

1. feminine singular of the past participle of valoir