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pas⋅sage

1  [pas-ij] noun, verb, -saged, -sag⋅ing.
–noun
1. a portion or section of a written work; a paragraph, verse, etc.: a passage of Scripture.
2. a phrase or other division of a musical work.
3. Fine Arts. an area, section, or detail of a work, esp. with respect to its qualities of execution: passages of sensitive brushwork.
4. an act or instance of passing from one place, condition, etc., to another; transit.
5. the permission, right, or freedom to pass: to refuse passage through a territory.
6. the route or course by which a person or thing passes or travels.
7. a hall or corridor; passageway.
8. an opening or entrance into, through, or out of something: the nasal passages.
9. a voyage by water from one point to another: a rough passage across the English Channel.
10. the privilege of conveyance as a passenger: to book passage on an ocean liner.
11. the price charged for accommodation on a ship; fare.
12. a lapse or passing, as of time.
13. a progress or course, as of events.
14. the enactment into law of a legislative measure.
15. an interchange of communications, confidences, etc., between persons.
16. an exchange of blows; altercation or dispute: a passage at arms.
17. the act of causing something to pass; transference; transmission.
18. an evacuation of the bowels.
19. an occurrence, incident, or event.
–verb (used without object)
20. to make a passage; cross; pass; voyage.
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Origin:
1250–1300; ME < OF, equiv. to pass(er) to pass + -age -age
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pas⋅sage

2  [pas-ij, puh-sahzh] noun, verb, -saged, -sag⋅ing. Manège.
–noun
1. a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.
–verb (used without object)
2. (of a horse) to execute such a movement.
3. (of a rider) to cause a horse to execute such a movement.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cause (a horse) to passage.
Origin:
1790–1800; < F passager (v.), var. of passéger < It passeggiare to walk; see pace 1
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pas·sage 1   (pās'ĭj)   
n.  

  1. The act or process of passing, especially:

    1. A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration.

    2. The process of elapsing: the passage of time.

    3. The process of passing from one condition or stage to another; transition: the passage from childhood to adulthood.

    4. Enactment into law of a legislative measure.

    5. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass: the nasal passages.

    6. A corridor. See Synonyms at way.

    7. An occurrence or event: "Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control" (Helen Kitchen).

    8. Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons: a passage at arms.

    9. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

    10. Music A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

    11. A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

  2. A journey, especially one by air or water: a rough passage on the stormy sea.

  3. The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship: book passage; pay for one's passage.

  4. The right, permission, or power to come and go freely: Only medical supply trucks were granted safe passage through enemy territory.

    1. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass: the nasal passages.

    2. A corridor. See Synonyms at way.

    3. An occurrence or event: "Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control" (Helen Kitchen).

    4. Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons: a passage at arms.

    5. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

    6. Music A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

    7. A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

    1. An occurrence or event: "Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control" (Helen Kitchen).

    2. Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons: a passage at arms.

    3. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

    4. Music A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

    5. A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

    1. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

    2. Music A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

    3. A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

  8. Physiology An act of emptying, as of the bowels.

  9. Biology The process of passing or maintaining a group of microorganisms or cells through a series of hosts or cultures.

  10. Obsolete Death.


[Middle English, from Old French, from passer, to pass; see pass.]
pas·sage 2   (pās'ĭj, pə-säzh')   
n.  A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.
v.   pas·saged, pas·sag·ing, pas·sag·es

v.   intr.
To execute such a trot in dressage.
v.   tr.
To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.

[French, from passager, to execute a passage, alteration (influenced by passer, to pass) of passéger, from Italian passeggiare, from passare, to pass, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, from Latin passus, step; see pace1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

passage 
c.1290, "action of passing," from O.Fr. passage (11c.), from passer "to go by" (see pass (v.)). Originally "a road, passage," meaning "corridor in a building" first recorded 1611. Meaning "a portion of writing" is from c.1611, of music, from 1674.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1pas·sage
Pronunciation: 'pas-ij
Function: noun
1 : the action or process of passing from one place, condition, orstage to another passage of air from the lungs —Encyclopedia Americana>
2 : an anatomical channel passages>
3 : a movement or an evacuation of the bowels
4 a : an act or action of passing something or undergoing a passing <passage of a catheter through theurethra> b : incubation of a pathogen (as a virus) in a tissue culture, a developing egg, or a living organism to increase the amount of pathogen or to alter its characteristicspassages of the virus through mice>

Main Entry: 2passage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: pas·saged; pas·sag·ing
: to subject to passage passaged in series seven times —Journal of the American Medical Association>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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passage pas·sage (pās'ĭj)
n.

  1. A movement from one place to another.

  2. The process of passing from one condition or stage to another.

  3. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass.

  4. An act of emptying, as of the bowels.

  5. The process of passing or maintaining a group of microorganisms or cells through a series of hosts or cultures.

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Bible Dictionary

Passage

denotes in Josh. 22:11, as is generally understood, the place where the children of Israel passed over Jordan. The words "the passage of" are, however, more correctly rendered "by the side of," or "at the other side of," thus designating the position of the great altar erected by the eastern tribes on their return home. This word also designates the fords of the Jordan to the south of the Sea of Galilee (Judg. 12:5, 6), and a pass or rocky defile (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:4). "Passages" in Jer. 22:20 is in the Revised Version more correctly "Abarim" (q.v.), a proper name.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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