Passage
['pæsɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of passing from one state or place to the next.
(noun.) a journey usually by ship; 'the outward passage took 10 days'.
(noun.) the act of passing something to another person.
(noun.) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; 'the passage of air from the lungs'; 'the passing of flatus'.
(noun.) a way through or along which someone or something may pass.
(noun.) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; 'the nasal passages'.
(noun.) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length.
(noun.) a short section of a musical composition.
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
(v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
(v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
(v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
(v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
(v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
(v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
(v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
(v. i.) Reception; currency.
(v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
(v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
(v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
Edited by Jeanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Passing, transit.[2]. Road, path, way, avenue, pass, thoroughfare, channel, route.[3]. Act, deed, event, occurrence, feat, exploit.[4]. Clause, sentence, paragraph, text.[5]. Corridor, entry, entry way.[6]. Enactment, passing.[7]. (Music.) Phrase, part of an air.
Editor: Rae
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Journey, thoroughfare, road, course, avenue, route, channel, clause, phrase,sentence, paragraph
ANT:Chapter, book,[See COURSE]
Editor: Natasha
Definition
n. act of passing: a moving from one place or state to another: a journey as in a ship: course: time occupied in passing: means of passing in or out: a way: entrance: enactment of a law: right of passing: price paid for passing or for being conveyed between two places: occurrence any incident or episode: a single clause or part of a book &c.: a modulation in music: (B.) a mountain-pass: ford of a river: (zool.) migratory habits.—v.i. to cross: to walk sideways of a horse.—Passage of arms any feat of arms: a quarrel esp. of words.—Bird of passage a bird that passes from one climate to another at the change of the seasons.
Checker: Patty
Examples
- Entering the open passage, she tapped at the door of the private parlour, unfastened it, and looked in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You passed out quickly into the passage, and left the door open. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She usually followed him; but he heard her passing down the passage to her bedroom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I took passage on a steamer at Ripley, Ohio, for Pittsburg, about the middle of May, 1839. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- For other explanations of the passage see Introduction. Plato. The Republic.
- As I was descending the grand staircase in a very ill-humour, a well-known voice, from a little dark passage, called me by my name. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Again, a minute bit of bark has been upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the break indicates the direction of the passage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Putting out my hand I felt several coats hanging from the wall, and I understood that I was in a passage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Don't be afraid, dear, he said good-naturedly; it is but a twelve hours' passage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He glanced down the passage behind him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- St. Clare took the book and glanced at the place, and began reading one of the passages which Tom had designated by the heavy marks around it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that was even sadder than the rest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Mr. Stryver had left them in the passages, to shoulder his way back to the robing-room. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I want you to listen while I read the concluding passages in this letter, said Miss Halcombe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He and Dobbin stumbled over their pails in the passages as they were scouring the decks of the Royal George. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But it contains many fine passages and thoughts which are for all time. Plato. The Republic.
- Before we were clear of the passages downstairs, I was stopped by Betteredge, just as I was passing the door which led into his own room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Louis Moore sat at his desk, turning the leaves of a book, open before him, and marking passages with his pencil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If not, I have only to go to those bookshelves, and you have only to read the passages which I can point out to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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