a section or portion of a journey or course | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | the territory occupied by a nation |
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | a state of depression or agitation |
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |
any distinct time period in a sequence of events | |