Definizione monolingua

passage

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a hosts or media

   He passaged the virus through a series of goats.

   After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.

2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

   They passaged to America in 1902.

passage (plural passages)

1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

   passage of scripture

   She struggled to play the difficult passages.

2. Part of a path or journey.

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

3. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

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

4. An artistic term describing use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
5. A passageway or corridor.
6. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
7. The vagina.
   • 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,^[1] New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:

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

   • 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53:

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

   • 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249:

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

8. The act of passing
   • 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29

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

Definizione dizionario passage

	corridoio
	passageway

passaggio

corsia

	accesso
	Percorso o mezzo per avviarsi al luogo dove si entra.
	A way or means of approaching or entering.

	entrata
	Percorso o mezzo per avviarsi al luogo dove si entra.
	A way or means of approaching or entering.

alcova

andamento

andito

brano

cammino

condotto

dotto

episodio

luogo

passage

passo

pista

strada

tragitto

traversata

varco

via

viaggio

vicolo

Altri significati:

section of text or music

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

A passageway or corridor.

An artistic term describing use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

a verse (e.g. in the Bible)

part of a journey

The vagina.

(medicine) To pass a pathogen through a hosts or media

official agreement of a bill or act

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

adoption (e.g. motion, bill)

section (i.e. of text)

Part of a path or journey.

(dressage, intransitive) To execute a passage movement

(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.

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.