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PASSAGEWAY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage between rooms or between buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("passageway" is a kind of...):

passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passageway"):

aisle; gangway (passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores)

arcade (a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side)

areaway (a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement)

corridor (an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it)

drift; gallery; heading (a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine)

gangway (a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site))

gate (passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark)

shaft (a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator))

tunnel (a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars))

walk-through (a pedestrian passageway through the ground floor of a building)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass

Example:

the nasal passages

Synonyms:

passage; passageway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("passageway" 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 "passageway"):

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)

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 Context examples: 

Inside are burial chambers reached via a corridor or passageway.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Blockage of a passageway.

(Obstruction, NCI Dictionary)

Any volume which a component introduces to a system that is not cleanly swept and relies on diffusion to clear the space; a dead-end passageway or cavity that can retain materials to contaminate subsequent samples or flow media.

(Dead Volume, NCI Thesaurus)