Understage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Understage is an adjective meaning (of machinery etc) underneath the stage.
Meaning
(of machinery etc) underneath the stage.
More Meanings
- (theater) The area beneath a stage.
- (medicine) To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness
Example Sentences
The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages
dozens of strapping stage-hands in the understage manipulating warships, cannons dispatching balls of fire, blue smoke.
When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer
Word Forms
- understages
- understaging
- understaged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undertrack, upstage, understep, downstage, backstage, underhood.
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