forestage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.
  2. A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. UK,historical
  3. A preliminary or developmental stage.
    — The formation of exogenous uric acid is largely within our power; the amount can be diminished by limiting the forestages of uric acid-nucleins and purin derivatives—in the food.
  4. A service paid by foresters to the king. UK,historical
  5. Forecastle. obsolete
    — Ships of Forecastle were ships with Forestages, and carried about 150 men each ; they were the largest ships then in use.
动词 v.
  1. To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.
    — There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out.
  2. To make prominent; to bring into focus. broadly
    — Not only was Binodlal one of the first to forestage sontap (“heat”) as the key element in fevers, but he was also one of the first to try to understand sontap as "motion."

词形变化

forestages plural forestages present,singular,third-person forestaging participle,present forestaged participle,past forestaged past forestages plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English forstage, equivalent to fore- + stage.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English forest
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English forestage
From forest + -age.
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