Passage
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English
Noun
Passage (plural Passages)- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- Part of a path or journey.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- 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.
- An artistic term describing 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.
- The vagina.
Derived terms
Verb
Passage (third-person singular simple present Passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
- (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a hosts or media
- (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
- They passaged to America in 1902.
Noun
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.
Verb
Passage (third-person singular simple present Passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
- (dressage, intransitive) To execute a passage movement
Adjectives for Passage
easy; pathetic; painful; palatial; sparred; tortuous; favorable; rickety; half-remembered; dimly-lighted; hazardous; objectionable; latticed; random; secret; perilous, octave; well-concealed; impassable; wading; sloping; striking; arched; dark; particular; prosperous; speedy; matted; neglected; furious; poetical; disputed; exquisite; descriptive; remarkable; sensational; slippery; precarious; vaulted; circuitous; unedifying; abrupt; narrow-paneled; tedious; practicable; romantic; vivid; characteristic; sumptuous; ill-quoted; brilliant; gloomy; subterranean; stormy; despised; hackneyed; purpie; redundant; rhetorical; brief; narrow, thorough; roomy; stirring; significant; secret; political; swift; honey; winding; awful; laudatory; adulatory; untrammeled; disjointed; perihelion; certain; frequent; glowing; oratorical; walled-up; impossible; scorching; alternate; lyric; musical; amorphous; melodious; rumbling; dramatic; instantaneous; treacherous; imaginative; arduous; elevated; lofty; impressive; sublime
Verbs for Passage
acclaim—; applaud—; analyze—; blend—s; cite—; delete—; erase—; interpret—; paraphrase—; quote—; —castigates; —expunges ; —glows; —reveals; —stings; accomplish—; bar—; block—; clog—; constrict—; emerge from—; fence in—; gain—; guard—; impede—; jeopardize—; offer—; protect—; quicken—; restrict—; safeguard.
Thesaurus
Brownian movement, about-face, abysm, abyss, acceptance, access, acciaccatura, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adit, adoption, advance, advancement, advancing, adventure, air lock, aisle, alchemy, alley, allowance, alteration, ambulatory, anacrusis, angular motion, aperture, appoggiatura, approach, approval, arabesque, arcade, areaway, arrangements, arroyo, artery, article, ascending, ascent, assimilation, assumption, authorization, avenue, axial motion, back matter, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bass passage, becoming, blow, book, bourdon, box canyon, breach, break, breezeway, bridge, burden, cadence, cadenza, canto, canyon, career, cavity, change, change-over, channel, chap, chapter, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chorus, citation, clause, cleft, cleuch, climbing, cloister, clough, coda, col, colonnade, coloratura, column, commerce, communication, commutation, concurrent resolution, conduction, conduit, connection, constitution, contagion, convection, conversion, corridor, coulee, couloir, coup, course, covered way, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crossing, cruise, current, cut, cwm, dealing, dealings, deed, defile, delivery, dell, deportation, descending, descent, development, diapedesis, diffusion, dike, dissemination, ditch, division, doing, doings, donga, downward motion, draw, drift, driftage, duct, ebbing, effort, egress, elapse, embellishment, emigration, enaction, enactment, endeavor, endorsement, endorsing, enterprise, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, excavation, excerpt, excerption, exchange, exit, expatriation, exploit, export, exportation, exposition, expulsion, extract, extraction, extradition, facilities, fait accompli, fascicle, fault, feat, ferry, figure, fioritura, fissure, flaw, flight, flip-flop, flourish, flow, flume, flux, folderol, folio, ford, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, foyer, fracture, freedom, front matter, furrow, furtherance, furthering, gallery, gangplank, gangway, gap, gape, gash, gathering, gest, globe-trotting, go, go-ahead, going, grace, grace note, groove, growth, gulch, gulf, gully, hall, hallway, hand, handiwork, harmonic close, headway, hole, immigration, import, importation, in, in-migration, incidental, incidental note, incision, ingress, inlet, installment, intake, interchange, interlude, intermezzo, intermigration, intersection, introductory phrase, job, joint, joint resolution, journey, journeying, junction, kloof, lane, lapse, lawmaking, leak, leg, legalization, legislation, legislature, legitimatization, legitimization, liberty, line, livraison, lobby, locomotion, loggia, long mordent, maneuver, march, means of access, measure, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, moat, mordent, motion, mounting, move, movement, moving, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutation, mutual transfer, naturalization, notch, nullah, number, oblique motion, ocean trip, ongoing, onrush, onward course, opening, operation, ordainment, orifice, ornament, osmosis, out-migration, outlet, overpass, overt act, page, paragraph, part, pass, passageway, passing, passing over, path, performance, perfusion, pergola, period, peristyle, permission, phrase, plunging, portico, portion, pralltriller, privilege, proceeding, production, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, quotation, radial motion, railroad tunnel, random motion, ratification, ravine, re-formation, reconversion, reduction, reflowing, refluence, reflux, refrain, regression, remigration, rent, res gestae, resolution, response, retrogression, reversal, rift, rime, rising, ritornello, road, rolling, rolling on, roulade, route, run, rupture, rush, sail, sanction, scissure, sea trip, seam, section, selected passage, selection, sentence, serial, set, shakedown cruise, sheet, shift, shipment, shipping, sideward motion, signature, single mordent, sinking, slit, slot, soaring, split, spread, spreading, stanza, statement, step, sternway, strain, stream, stroke, stunt, subsiding, swarm, swarming, switch, switch-over, tailpiece, text, thing, thing done, thoroughfare, tour de force, tourism, touristry, trade, traffic, trafficking, traject, trajet, transaction, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transformation, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, traveling, traversal, traverse, trek, trench, trend, trip, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, turn, turning into, tutti, tutti passage, underpass, undertaking, upward motion, valley, variation, verse, vestibule, visa, void, volte-face, volume, voyage, wadi, way, way in, work, works
