passage

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

“She struggled to play the difficult passages.”

Part of a path or journey.

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

An incident or episode.

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.”

The advance of time.

The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

A passageway or corridor.

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

The vagina.

The act of passing; movement across or through.

The right to pass from one place to another.

A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology

A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

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

To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

“They passaged to America in 1902.”

Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)

“Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.”

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.

To execute a passage movement