What is a stage? Surely each of us is familiar with such a meaning of this word as a certain stage in the implementation of a business. But the options for his interpretation do not end there. It turns out that there are several more options. More details on what a stage will be described in this article.
Open the dictionary
I wonder what definition of the word "stage" gives the dictionary? It says the following:
- A separate part, stage, period of time in the continuation of a process. (Example: It must be emphasized that the second of the stages of work should only be started when the first is completed completely - immediately or after a certain period of time).
- A special term applied to a group of convicted prisoners. (Example: The stage arrived at night, and new people were quickly assigned to the barracks).
- A special term denoting the route to the place of detention or a separate segment of this route. (Example: The conditions for following the stage in tsarist Russia were very difficult, and many prisoners could not stand it, lost their health or even life).
Next, we consider the synonyms for the "stage" and the origin of this word.
Etymology and Synonyms
According to the researchers, the origin of the linguistic object that we are studying goes back to the Middle Low German language, in which there is the word stapel, meaning "warehouse". It was borrowed from Old French, where the noun estaple was formed in the same meaning. From him came the French term étape, which means "stage, place of stop, transition." From there the word migrated to the Russian language.
There are a lot of synonyms for the “stage”; the following are related to them:
- step;
- point;
- milestone;
- phase;
- phase;
- stage;
- period;
- stage;
- moment;
- part;
- Group;
- paragraph;
- section;
- round;
- page;
- step;
- the consignment;
- way;
- band;
- historical moment;
- significant moment.
Sustainable combinations with the word under study are: “passed stage”; "Go on stage." In addition to the above, the "stage" has other shades of meaning. Consider them.
Other values
Among them can be noted such as:
- Recreation, food and overnight stay for military units and teams moving along the roads.
- In wartime, a section of the track (dirt, railway, waterway) along which in wartime the movement of teams, military units and transport of the Russian armed forces was carried out.
- The point where the medical facilities were located, included in the evacuation system of patients and wounded, providing medical care to those of them who were sent to the rear.
Operation part
Next, consider what a step is in the first vocabulary meaning indicated above. An example is the stage of a military operation. This is such a part of it, a certain stage during which the unification forces carry out any operational tasks. As a result of this, significant changes are taking place in the general situation. And also more favorable conditions are created for the continuation of hostilities.
The stages of operations are also distinguished when the operations already carried out by associations of the armed forces are investigated and described. For example, an operation called Bagration. According to the content of the tasks assigned to the units of the USSR armed forces participating in it and the nature of the hostilities, it was divided into two stages:
- The first took place from June 23 to July 4, 1944 and included the Vitebsk-Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Polotsk, and Minsk front-line operations. Their tasks included the implementation of a breakthrough of the enemy’s defense, its expansion from the flanks, the routing of operational reserves, the seizure of several cities, including Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian SSR.
- The second lasted from July 5 to August 29 of the same year and included the Šiauliai, Vilnius, Kaunas, Białystok, Lublin-Brest operations. During their implementation, it was necessary to develop success in depth, overcome intermediate defensive lines, defeat the main operational reserves of the enemy, capture important lines and bridgeheads on the Vistula River.
The staging of the arrested
In conclusion, consider what a stage is in the third meaning indicated in the dictionary. In the Russian Empire, the creation of the stages was carried out on the roads along which the arrested persons were transported on foot. Between them there was a distance of 15 to 25 versts. At each such stage, a separate building was arranged or hired, in which there were separate rooms for men and women (prisoners) and for the convoy. As the railroad network developed, the use of the pedestrian-staged order of movement of prisoners was reduced, and the stages were subject to closure.
Nowadays, transportation of prisoners is carried out, as a rule, using one of the means of transport:
- automobile - on autogrowers ("funnels");
- railway - in carriages (“Stolypin carriages”), specially equipped carriages, last hooked to a passenger train;
- aviation - due to the high cost it is used only when other options are impossible.
If the distance is insignificant, the staging procedure is performed on foot.