Stage
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To produce on a stage, to perform a play. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out. To pause or wait at a designated location.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a phase The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies. Short for stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers the number of an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. The place on a microscope where the slide is placed
Example sentence: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Phase
Part of speech: verb
Definition: (to phase out) To discontinue (doing) something over a period of time (i.e., in phases).To stun or shock someone.To become stunned or shocked.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
Example sentence: I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.