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Definition of Passage

Passage The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. 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. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. Reception; currency. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels. 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. Related Definitions: Access, Across, Act, Action, Adoption, Advancement, Affirmative, Amended, An, And, Another, Arms, As, At, Avenue, Bird, Body, Book, Both, Building, By, Bill, Car, Carriage, Channel, Clause, Common, Composition, Congress, Connected, Consideration, Constituting, Continuous, Conveyance, Corridor, Course, Currency, Death, Decease, Deed, Delayed, Departure, During, En, Enactment, Encounter, Entrance, Evacuation, Exit, Fare, Final, For, From, Going, Hall, Hence, Houses, In, Incident, Journey, Liberty, Life, Like, Light, Man, Movement, Musical, Occurrence, Of, One, Or, Other, Over, Paid, Paragraph, Parliamentary, Part, Particular, Pass, Passage, Passing, Path, Pay, Place, Point, Portion, Price, Process, Progress, Proposition, Reading, Reception, Removal, Resolution, Right, Road, Separate, Series, Several, Ship, Something, Speech, Stage, The, Third, Through, Time, To, Transit, Travel, Upon, Various, Vote, Was, Water, Way, Which

Passage Quotations I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Henry David Thoreau Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to. Brian Adam

Passage Translations passage in Dutch is overloop, gang, baan, rijstrook passage in French is corridoir, passage, couloir passage in German is Passage, Durchfahrt passage in Italian is andamento, varco passage in Portuguese is passagem passage in Spanish is pasillo, funcionamiento, paso

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