upstage

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

the rear part of the stage
• Hypernyms:
part, portion
• Part Holonyms:
stage

II - verb

1. treat snobbishly, put in one's place
• Hypernyms:
treat, handle, do by
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
• Derivationally related forms:
upstager
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
3. steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else
- When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress
• Derivationally related forms:
upstager
• Hypernyms:
outshine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Sam cannot upstage Sue

III - adjective

1. of the back half of a stage
- she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience
• Ant:
downstage
2. remote in manner
- stood apart with aloof dignity
- a distant smile
- he was upstage with strangers
• Syn:
aloof, distant
• Similar to:
reserved
• Derivationally related forms:
distance (for: distant), aloofness (for: aloof)

IV - adverb

at or toward the rear of the stage
- the dancers were directed to move upstage
• Ant:
downstage
• Topics:
dramaturgy, dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  aloof, distant