passage

Meanings

Plural: passages

Noun

• the act of passing from one state or place to the next
• a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
• a way through or along which someone or something may pass
• the passing of a law by a legislative body
• a journey usually by ship
  • "the outward passage took 10 days"
• a short section of a musical composition
• a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
  • "the nasal passages"
• a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
  • "the passage of air from the lungs"
• the motion of one object relative to another
• the act of passing something to another person
• A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• Part of a path or journey.
• An incident or episode.
• The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• The advance of time.
• The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• A passageway or corridor.
• A strait or other narrow waterway.
• An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• The vagina.
• The act of passing; movement across or through.
• The right to pass from one place to another.
• A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
• Serial passage.
• A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
• 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.

Verb

• To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
• To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• To execute a passage movement.

Adj

• Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

Synonyms

enactment, handing over, musical passage, passageway, passing, transit, transition

Related Words

cotext, locus

Anagrams of passage