Word Finder - passage

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

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She struggled to play the difficult passages.

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Part of a path or journey.

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

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An incident or episode.

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

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

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The advance of time.

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• passing

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

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A passageway or corridor.

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

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The vagina.

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The act of passing; movement across or through.

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The right to pass from one place to another.

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

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Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology

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

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

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

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To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

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They passaged to America in 1902.

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

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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.

The passage of time will grow the repository.

Jim hastened his lagging steps at this assurance of a quick relief from the dark passage.

Sonya went out into the passage to go to the barn.

He had died by the time I read that passage in one of his books, so I couldn't write him, as is my normal practice when an author's words puzzle me.

I read a passage in a novel last evening as I sat by the fire, trying to wile away these idle hours.

The volume which describes her conventual life is as graphic as Miss Brontes Villette, but we can only dwell on one passage of it.

The children and the Wizard rushed across the moving rock and sprang into the passage beyond, landing safely though a little out of breath.

The doctor went into the passage to wash his hands.

But at length they came unexpectedly upon a huge rock that shut off the passage and blocked them from proceeding a single step farther.

Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets.

On the way to his sister's room, in the passage which connected one wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling sweetly.

She caught sight of a side passage out of the corner of her eye.

The excavation was wider here and Dean could see signs of some earlier passage in the mud at the edge.

No act takes effect until ninety days after its passage unless two-thirds of the members of each house specifically order otherwise.

This passage is interesting also as showing that women were accustomed to play the game in those days.

Buenos Aires was blockaded by the combined English and French fleets, September 1845, which landed a force to open the passage up the Parana to Paraguay, which had been declared closed to foreigners by Rosas.

The chest in the passage was the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov household.

They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata.

The stipulation on the passage of the money was fine with her.

A memorial in Church Square commemorates the Franklin expedition to the discovery of the North-West Passage, and in particular Captain Francis Crozier, who was born at Banbridge in 1796 and served on the expedition.

Porus was prepared to contest the passage of the Hydaspes with all his strength.

That they intermarried with the earlier stock is suggested by the passage in Gen.

It ran into a narrow cleft which he had not seen before, and then through a long, dark passage which was barely large enough for a man's body.

I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular.

The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster's Fugitive-Slave Bill.

From the passage they went into a large, dimly lit room adjoining the count's reception room.

Cynthia sat up in bed as she read the brief passage, an uncommon glass of amber liquid in her hand Donnie deciphered it.

Doorsill there was none, but a perennial passage for the hens under the door board.

Nay, I was frequently notified of the passage of a traveller along the highway sixty rods off by the scent of his pipe.

Two girlish voices sang a musical passage--the end of some song.

She saw Damian watch the new king get his tattoo as a rite of passage, saw it again as Claire made love to the man meant to be her husband, saw it in Isac's vision as he hacked the tattooed man apart.

His passage through Cilicia was marked by a violent fever that arrested him for a while in Tarsus, and meantime a great Persian army was waiting for him in northern Syria under the command of Darius himself.

Magellan, as soon as he had satisfied himself that there was no passage to the west, left the river without landing.

Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find?

The receiver was based on the change of friction produced by the passage of an electric current through the point of contact of certain substances in relative motion.

To decrease the evil of lobbying a law was enacted in 1906 which requires that every person employed to promote or oppose the passage of any bill shall file in the office of the secretary of state a written statement showing who has employed him and describing the legislation in respect of which his services are to be rendered; the law also requires the employers of lobbyists to file in the same office within two months after the adjournment of the legislature an itemized statement of all their lobbying expenses, and forbids the employment of a lobbyist for a contingent fee.

They will grant you safe passage.

Her elder son resigned his title and estates, and became a Jesuit under the name of the Abbe d'Orleans, while the younger, after leading a debauched life, was killed leading the attack in the passage of the Rhine in 1673.

Modern chronologers for the most part adopt the account of Varro, which is supported by a passage in Censorinus, where it is stated that the 991st year of Rome commenced with the festival of the Palilia, in the consulship of Ulpius and Pontianus.

Centralization was again secured, in 1888, by the passage of a law reorganizing and increasing the powers of the state board of education.

The insertion of the alien matter 7-12 between 1-5 and 13-17 may be due to our author's wish to show that the expulsion of Satan from heaven after Christ's birth and ascension to heaven was owing in some measure to Christ, although he has allowed Michael's name to remain in the borrowed passage, 7-12 - a fact which shows how dependent the writer was on tradition.

When the reviser recast the passage it dealt not with the destruction of Jerusalem, but with the persecution of the Christians.

A few days after the passage of the Religious Orders Bill, the death of Rattazzi (5th June 1873) removed all probability of the immediate advent of the Left.

Natorp's article quoted there gives the reference to the passage in Aristotle, but does not recognize its connexion with the later Stoical distinction.

The rail-failures mentioned above also drew renewed attention to the importance of the thermal treatment of the steel from the time of melting to the last passage through the rolling mill and to the necessity of the finishing temperature being sufficiently low if the product is to be fine grained, homogeneous and tough; and to permit of this requirement being met there was a tendency to increase the thickness of the metal in the web and flanges of the rails.

One or two scryers think that they, too, can trace the picture as it develops on the suggestion of some passage of light, colour or shadow in the glass or crystal.

In October 1330 he entered Nottingham Castle by night, through a subterranean passage, and took Mortimer prisoner.

Danger stimulated the English government to active exertions, and by the 21st of July Monk and Rupert were enabled by a happy combination of wind and tide to set to sea through the passage called the Swin.

William of Orange with a weak field army tried to defend the Yssel-Rhine line, but the French rapidly forced the passage of the Rhine at Tollhuis (June 12th) and passed into the Betuwe (between the Leck and the Waal).

The elector of Trier, who had not forgotten the depredations of Louis' army in the spring, followed the example of the bishop of Wurzburg and gave a free passage at Coblenz.