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passage

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noun/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ//ˈpasɪd͡ʒ//ˈpæsəd͡ʒ/
  1. 1

    A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

    • passage of scripture
    • She struggled to play the difficult passages.
  2. 2

    Part of a path or journey.

    • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  3. 3

    An incident or episode.

    • 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.
  4. 4

    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.
  5. 5

    The advance of time.

    • The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
  6. 6

    The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

  7. 7

    A passageway or corridor.

  8. 8

    A strait or other narrow waterway.

    • the Northwest Passage
  9. 9

    An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

  10. 10

    The vagina.euphemistic

    • With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
    • This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
verb/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ//ˈpasɪd͡ʒ//ˈpæsəd͡ʒ/
  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.rare

    • They passaged to America in 1902.
adj/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ//ˈpasɪd͡ʒ//ˈpæsəd͡ʒ/
  1. 1

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

    • 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.
noun/ˈpasɑːʒ/
  1. 1

    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/ˈpasɑːʒ/
  1. 1

    To execute a passage movement.intransitive

    • After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]

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