passage

IPA: pˈæsʌdʒ

noun

  • 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.
  • (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  • A passageway or corridor.
  • (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
  • (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  • (euphemistic) 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.
  • (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
  • (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
  • (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.
  • Short for Passage West, Ireland. [A town and port in County Cork, Ireland.]

verb

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

adjective

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