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