Meaning

• 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.

Meaning

• 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."

Meaning

• 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."