passage
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
Verb Forms: passage, passaged, passaging, passages
- To make a journey or voyage by sea, air, or land.
- 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.
Examples
- After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
- He hoped his letters would PASSAGE safely to a triple word score across the Scrabble board.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
- passage of scripture
- 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.
- She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- the Northwest Passage
- They passaged to America in 1902.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Synonyms
enactment, handing over, musical passage, passageway, passing, transit, transition
Scrabble Score: 10
passage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpassage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
passage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary