Word Meanings - STAGELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to STAGELY)

• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• THEATRICAL
  Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• THEATER; THEATRE
  1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. 2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• STAGELY
  Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• THEATRICALS
  Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• STAGE FRIGHT
  Nervousness felt before an audience.
• STAGER
  1. A player. B. Jonson. 2. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott. 3. A horse
• STAGEPLAY
  A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.
• STAGE MANAGER
  One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• AMPHITHEATRICALLY
  In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.