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understage

adj

Etymology

From under- + stage.

  1. derived from ester — “to be standing, be located”
  2. derived from estage — “dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”
  3. inherited from stage
  4. prefixed as understage — “under + stage”

Definitions

  1. underneath the stage

  2. The area beneath a stage.

    • When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer
    • 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.

  3. To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for understage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA