passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Forms: form: passages
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Senses: examples: text: passage of scripture
text: She struggled to play the difficult passages.
glosses: A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
examples: text: He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
glosses: Part of a path or journey.
examples: text: But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
ref: 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings:
glosses: An incident or episode.
examples: text: The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
glosses: The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
examples: text: The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
ref: 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 209:
synonyms: passing
glosses: The advance of time.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
glosses: A passageway or corridor.
examples: text: the Northwest Passage
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strait or other narrow waterway.
topics: caving
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
examples: text: With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
ref: 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time, New American Library, →ISBN, page 463:
text: This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
ref: 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 53:
text: At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
ref: 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: The vagina.
examples: text: He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
ref: 1886, Pacific medical journal, volume 29:
text: When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
ref: 1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:
glosses: The act of passing; movement across or through.
glosses: The right to pass from one place to another.
glosses: A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Serial passage.
topics: dice
games
glosses: A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
Derived terms: back passage
bird of passage
clobber passage
couldn't stop a pig in a passage
cross-passage
deck passage
first-passage time
first passage time
forepassage
innocent passage
middle passage
midpassage
multipassage
New Passage
Northeast Passage
Northwest Passage
Old Passage
passageable
passage at arms
passage boat
Passage East
passage grave
passage-house
passage house
passagemaker
passage maker
passage migrant
passage of arms
passage of time
passage plan
passage planning
passage tomb
passageway
Passage West
passagework
repassage
Restronguet Passage
rite of passage
screens passage
subpassage
time of pericenter passage
time of pericentre passage
underpassage
Windward Passage
with the passage of time
work one's passage
zenial passage
zenithal passage
Related terms: cotext
locus