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Passage
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- 1 Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. attributive, not-comparable
"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."
- 1 Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
"passage of scripture"
- 2 A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- 3 the act of passing from one state or place to the next wordnet
- 4 Part of a path or journey.
"He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers."
- 5 a journey usually by ship wordnet
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- 6 An incident or episode.
"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."
- 7 the act of passing something to another person wordnet
- 8 The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
"The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act."
- 9 a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another wordnet
- 10 The advance of time.
"The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring."
- 11 the passing of a law by a legislative body wordnet
- 12 The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- 13 a way through or along which someone or something may pass wordnet
- 14 A passageway or corridor.
- 15 a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass wordnet
- 16 A strait or other narrow waterway.
"the Northwest Passage"
- 17 a section of text; particularly a section of medium length wordnet
- 18 An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- 19 a short section of a musical composition wordnet
- 20 The vagina. euphemistic
"With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]"
- 21 the motion of one object relative to another wordnet
- 22 The act of passing; movement across or through.
"He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused."
- 23 The right to pass from one place to another.
- 24 A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- 25 Serial passage.
- 26 A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. historical
- 1 To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
"He passaged the virus through a series of goats."
- 2 To execute a passage movement. intransitive
"After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]"
- 3 To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross. rare
"They passaged to America in 1902."
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
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