PASSAGE
\pˈasɪd͡ʒ], \pˈasɪdʒ], \p_ˈa_s_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of PASSAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of passing something to another person
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a short section of a musical composition
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the act of passing from one state or place to the next
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a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
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a way through or along which someone or something may pass
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a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
By Princeton University
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the act of passing something to another person
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a short section of a musical composition
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the act of passing from one state or place to the next
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a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
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a way through or along which someone or something may pass
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a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
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Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
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Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
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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.
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A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
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A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
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A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
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Reception; currency.
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A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
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A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
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Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
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Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
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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.
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A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
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A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
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A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
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Reception; currency.
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A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
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A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of going from one place or condition to another; course or progress; as, the passage of time; a journey; a hall; an entrance or exit; right to go; enactment; as, passage of a law; a single clause or portion of a book; migratory habits; as, birds of passage.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The act of passing. 2. A discharge, as from the bowels or of urine. 3. The inoculation of a series of animals with the same strain of a pathogenic microorganism whereby the virulence of the latter is increased, or sometimes diminished. 4. A channel, duct, pore, or opening.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Act of passing: journey: course: time occupied in passing: way: entrance: enactment of a law: right of passing: occurrence: a single clause or part of a book, etc.: (B.) a mountain-pass: ford of a river: (zool.) migratory habits.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A passage by, through, or over; the power or right of passing; a way; journey; voyage.
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A corridor, hall, etc.
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A clause; paragraph.
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A personal encounter.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Act of passing; time of passing; road; avenue; entrance or exit; right of passing; event; part of a book; enactment; a pass; migratory habits.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A journey; a voyage; time occupied in passing; a way or road; entrance or exit; a corridor in a house or building; an event; an incident; an indefinite part of a book, writing, or discourse; in music, a portion of an air or tune; bird of passage, a bird that passes at certain seasons from one climate or country to another; one who is apt by force of circumstances, or by natural disposition, to change his place of abode frequently.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Any channel of communication, especially any such channel between the various cavities and structures of the body, or between its cavities and the external surface. [Lat.]
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The act of passing from one locality to another. [Lat.]
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The act of passing anything (e. g. an instrument) into, through, or around a structure. [Lat.]
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The act of evacuating the bowels, or the material expelled in such evacuation, [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French, Latin] Act of passing; motion of any kind from point to point; journey, as by water, carriage, or the like; travel;—way or course of transit; road; route;—a way of entrance or exit; room leading to other rooms; vestibule;—a voyage, as of a passenger in a ship;—right to sail as a passenger in a ship; also, the price or fare for such voyage;—the time taken to sail from port to port; length of voyage;—passing away; decay;—decease; death;—any particular event in a man's career; incident;—occurrence; interlude;—part of a writing, document, book, &c.; clause, sentence, or paragraph; extract;—a short portion of an air or other musical composition;—act of carrying through a legislative body; formal enactment;—an encounter; a combat.
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