different between passage vs section

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs?d??/

Adjective

passage (not comparable)

1. 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.

Noun

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. An incident or episode.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings

     But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.

4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]

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

5. The advance of time.

   Synonym: passing
6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
7. A passageway or corridor.
8. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
9. (euphemistic) The vagina.
   • 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,^[1] New American Library, ?ISBN, 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, 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, page 249:

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

10. The act of passing; movement across or through.
    • 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29

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

11. The right to pass from one place to another.
12. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
13. Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology
14. (dice games, now historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]

Derived terms

• passage maker, passagemaker
• Restronguet Passage
• rite of passage

Translations

Verb

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

1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

   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.

Etymology 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pas???/

Noun

passage (plural passages)

1. (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.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement

Further reading

• passage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• passage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• passage at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From passeren +? -age

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pas?sa?ge

Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

1. A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning. ~ of scripture.
2. a passage way in a city.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.sa?/, /pa.sa?/
• Homophones: passagent, passages
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Old French, from passer +? -age.

Noun

passage m (plural passages)

1. The act of going through a place or event.
2. The time when such an act occurs.
3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement.
4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian.
5. A short stay.
6. A trip or travel, especially by boat.
7. The act of going from a state to another.
8. Graduation from a school year.
9. The act of making something undergo a process.
10. the act of handing something to someone.
11. An access way.
12. A laid out way allowing to go across something.
13. An alley or alleyway off-limits to cars.
14. A paragraph or section of text or music.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: passagem

Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

Verb

passage

1. first-person singular present indicative of passager
2. third-person singular present indicative of passager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of passager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of passager
5. second-person singular imperative of passager

Further reading

• “passage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

passage m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)

1. passage (part of a route or journey)

Descendants

• ? English: passage
• French: passage
  • ? Portuguese: passagem
• ? Swedish: passage

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?s???/, /pa?s???/

Noun

passage c

1. access, transit

   Synonym: genomgång

Declension

References

• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections

English

Etymology

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /?s?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: sec?tion

Noun

section (plural sections)

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
   1. (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

3. A part of a document.
4. An act or instance of cutting.
5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
   1. (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
6. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
   1. (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
7. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
9. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
10. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
11. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
12. (category theory) A right inverse.
13. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
14. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
15. (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
16. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
17. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Synonyms

• (botany, zoology): sectio

• cutting, slice, snippet
• division, part, slice, piece
• volume

Antonyms

• whole

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (aviation): waterline, buttock line

Derived terms

• bisection
• dissection
• sectionman
• trisection

Related terms

Translations

Verb

section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)

1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
3. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
   • 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:

     Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.

   • a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ?ISBN, page xiv:

     The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.

   • 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ?ISBN, page 5:

     After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]

   Synonym: (Australia) schedule

4. (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
   • 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:

     "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."

   • 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:

     You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."

Translations

Further reading

• section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• section at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ecotins, noetics, notices

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k.sj??/

Noun

section f (plural sections)

1. section (all meanings)

Further reading

• “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• notices

Interlingua

Etymology

From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sek?ti?on/

Noun

section (plural sectiones)

1. (act of) cutting
2. (surgery) section (all meanings)
3. section
   1. separation by cutting
   2. portion, division, subdivision
   3. (natural history, military, etc.) section
4. (geometry, drawing, etc.) section

Derived terms

• dissection
• intersection
• resection
• trisection
• vivisection
• sectionar