passage
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
bacteriology
biology
caving
dice
falconry
games
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
virology
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Inflected forms:
form: passages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: passages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: passaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: passaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: passaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
pos: noun
examples: passage of scripture
She struggled to play the difficult passages.
gloss: Part of a path or journey.
pos: noun
examples: He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
gloss: An incident or episode.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
pos: noun
examples: The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
gloss: The advance of time.
pos: noun
examples: The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
gloss: The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
pos: noun
gloss: A passageway or corridor.
pos: noun
gloss: A strait or other narrow waterway.
pos: noun
examples: the Northwest Passage
gloss: An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
pos: noun
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
gloss: The act of passing; movement across or through.
pos: noun
examples: He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
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.
gloss: The right to pass from one place to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
pos: noun
gloss: Serial passage.
pos: noun
gloss: A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
pos: verb
examples: He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
gloss: To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: They passaged to America in 1902.
gloss: Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
Related words: cotext
locus
Derived words: 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
Lemon Tree Passage
middle passage
midpassage
Milsons Passage
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
right of 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
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