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PASSAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of passing from one state or place to the next
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
fossilisation; fossilization (becoming inflexible or out of date)
segue (the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another)
Derivation:
pass (pass into a specified state or condition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A journey usually by ship
Example:
the outward passage took 10 days
Synonyms:
passage; transit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
lockage (passage through a lock in a canal or waterway)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of passing something to another person
Synonyms:
handing over; passage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
relay (the act of passing something along from one person or group to another)
Derivation:
pass (place into the hands or custody of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
Example:
the passing of flatus
Synonyms:
passage; passing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The passing of a law by a legislative body
Synonyms:
enactment; passage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
pass (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A way through or along which someone or something may pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
throat (a passage resembling a throat in shape or function)
shaft (a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel)
right of way (the passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass)
passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)
fish ladder (a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam)
cul; cul de sac; dead end (a passage with access only at one end)
conduit (a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass)
channel (a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through)
aisle (a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods))
adit (a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
Example:
the nasal passages
Synonyms:
passage; passageway
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
shunt (a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another)
fistula; sinus (an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface)
fauces (the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx)
epicardia (the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach)
esophagus; gorge; gullet; oesophagus (the passage between the pharynx and the stomach)
root canal (the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity)
carpal tunnel (a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass)
sinusoid (tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ)
canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)
opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)
meatus (a natural body passageway)
birth canal (a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth)
Sense 8
Meaning:
A section of text; particularly a section of medium length
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
text (a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon)
transition (a passage that connects a topic to one that follows)
purple passage (a passage full of ornate and flowery language)
place (the passage that is being read)
locus classicus (an authoritative and often-quoted passage)
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)
Holonyms ("passage" is a part of...):
text; textual matter (the words of something written)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A short section of a musical composition
Synonyms:
musical passage; passage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passage"):
impromptu (a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation)
modulation; transition (a musical passage moving from one key to another)
recitative (a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech)
adagio ((music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully))
largo ((music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner)
cadenza (a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music)
cadence (the close of a musical section)
musical phrase; phrase (a short musical passage)
intro (a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music)
fortissimo (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly)
forte (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly)
andante (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow)
allegretto (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro)
allegro (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner)
Sense 10
Meaning:
The motion of one object relative to another
Example:
stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets
Synonyms:
passage; passing
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("passage" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Derivation:
pass (travel past)
Context examples:
Some of it is. Try this passage.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I took my passage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Of the passage from the galley to the cabin I knew nothing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Show them the way, Negore, even as Old Kinoos showed them the way, so that they come, unprepared, to where we wait for them, in a passage up the rocks.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I did not even knock when I reached it, but turned the handle and rushed into the passage.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Look here, Lestrade,” said he, “has that constable in the passage been in charge of the place all the time?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having to do with the bronchi, which are the larger air passages of the lungs, including those that lead from the trachea (windpipe) to the lungs and those within the lungs.
(Bronchial, NCI Dictionary)
The large air passages that lead from the trachea (windpipe) to the lungs.
(Bronchi, NCI Dictionary)
Cancer that forms in tissues of the bronchi (large air passages in the lungs including those that lead to the lungs from the windpipe).
(Bronchial adenoma, NCI Dictionary)
And when she read aloud to him her favorite passages, he ascended to the topmost heaven of delight.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
