passage

Meanings

Adjective

• Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)

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.
• The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• A passageway or corridor.
• An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• 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.
• Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology
• A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
• 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

• To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
• To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
• To execute a passage movement

Origin

• Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer.
• From French passager, from Italian passeggiare