Meaning of passage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. access
2. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
3. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning
4. Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. 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.
6. sexual intercourse
7. A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.
8. Part of a path or journey.
9. Part of a path or journey
10. To execute such a trot in dressage.
11. An incident or episode.
12. An incident or episode
13. attack; fit
14. To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.
15. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
16. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
17. first-person singular present indicative of accesar
18. The act or process of passing, especially:a. Movement from one place to another: the passage of water through a sieve.
19. The advance of time.
20. The advance of time
21. The process of changing from one condition or stage to another; transition: the passage from childhood to adulthood.
22. The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
23. A journey, especially one by air or water: We had a rough passage on the stormy sea.
24. A passageway or corridor.
25. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass: the nasal passages.
26. A strait or other narrow waterway.
27. 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).
28. An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
29. A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.
30. The vagina.
    euphemistic
31. Physiology The process of discharging something from a bodily part, such as evacuation of waste from the bowels.
    Physiology
32. The act of passing; movement across or through.
33. The right to pass from one place to another.
34. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
35. Serial passage.
36. A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“passage of scripture”

“She struggled to play the difficult passages.”

“He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.”

“But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.”

“The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.”

“The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.”

“the Northwest Passage”

“With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]”

“This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.”

“At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.”

“He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.”

“When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.”

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