passage
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
passage (plural passages)
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- passage of scripture
- She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- Part of a path or journey.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- An incident or episode.
- 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
- 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.
- 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
- 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.
- The advance of time.
- Synonyms: passing
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,[http://books.google.com/books?id=b9JRW7sVGN0C ] New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:
- With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
- 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53 ↗:
- This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
- 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249 ↗:
- At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
- 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,[http://books.google.com/books?id=b9JRW7sVGN0C ] New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29
- He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
- 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- , a technique used in bacteriology and virology
- French: passage
- German: Passus
- Italian: passo
- Portuguese: passagem, trecho
- Russian: пасса́ж
- Spanish: pasaje
- Russian: приня́тие
- Russian: пасса́ж
passage (passages, present participle passaging; past and past participle passaged)
- (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
- He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
- After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
- (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
- They passaged to America in 1902.
- (British) IPA: /ˈpasɑːʒ/
passage (plural passages)
- (dressage) 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.
passage (passages, present participle passaging; past and past participle passaged)
- (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement
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