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plural passages
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. examples
Part of a path or journey. examples
An incident or episode. quotations examples
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.
1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. examples
The advance of time. quotations examples
The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, page 209
(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works. examples
A passageway or corridor. examples
(nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway. examples
(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide. examples
(euphemistic) The vagina. quotations examples
With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time, New American Library, page 463
This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, page 53
At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, page 249
The act of passing; movement across or through. quotations examples
He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
1886, Pacific medical journal, volume 29
The right to pass from one place to another. examples
A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places. examples
(bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
(dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged
(medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium. examples
(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
not comparable
(falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. examples
(dressage) 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. examples
(intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement. quotations examples
After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]
1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope, page 18