different between passage vs strid
passage
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pæs?d??/
Adjective
passage (not comparable)
- 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)
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- passage of scripture
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
- 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.
- The advance of time.
- Synonym: passing
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- (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.
- 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,[1] New American Library, ?ISBN, page 463:
- 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.
- 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29
- 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
- (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)
- (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.
- (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)
- (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)
- (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)
- A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning. ~ of scripture.
- 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)
- The act of going through a place or event.
- The time when such an act occurs.
- (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement.
- (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian.
- A short stay.
- A trip or travel, especially by boat.
- The act of going from a state to another.
- Graduation from a school year.
- The act of making something undergo a process.
- the act of handing something to someone.
- An access way.
- A laid out way allowing to go across something.
- An alley or alleyway off-limits to cars.
- A paragraph or section of text or music.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: passagem
Etymology 2
Verb form of passager.
Verb
passage
- first-person singular present indicative of passager
- third-person singular present indicative of passager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of passager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of passager
- 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)
- 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
- access, transit
- Synonym: genomgång
Declension
References
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
passage From the web:
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strid
English
Etymology
From Middle English stryd, a byform of stryde, stride. See stride (noun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??d/
Noun
strid (plural strids)
- (Britain, dialect, dated) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer, 17-24:
- The pair have reached that fearful chasm,
- How tempting to bestride!
- For lordly Wharf is there pent in
- With rocks on either side.
- This striding-place is called THE STRID,
- A name which it took of yore:
- A thousand years hath it borne that name,
- And shall a thousand more.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer, 17-24:
Verb
strid
- (obsolete) simple past tense of stride
Anagrams
- dirts, distr.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stri?d/, [sd??ið?]
- Rhymes: -id
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stríðr.
Adjective
strid
- rough
- stridt græs (rough grass)
- rapid
- strid strøm (rapid water)
- stiff
- en strid storm (a stiff storm)
- stubborn
- Du er altså strid! (You're so stubborn!)
Inflection
Derived terms
- i stride strømme
Etymology 2
From Old Norse stríð.
Noun
strid c (singular definite striden, not used in plural form)
- quarrel, conflict, strife
Related terms
- stridbar
- stride
- stridig
- stridslysten
Etymology 3
See stride (“to fight, struggle”).
Verb
strid
- imperative of stride
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stríð.
Noun
strid m (definite singular striden, indefinite plural strider, definite plural stridene)
- battle, fight, struggle
- conflict, controversy, dispute, disagreement, quarrel
Derived terms
- stridshode
- stridsvogn
Etymology 2
Verb
strid
- imperative of stride
References
- “strid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “strid” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stríð n
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stri?/, /stri?d/ (example of pronunciation)
- Homophone: stri
Noun
strid m (definite singular striden, indefinite plural stridar, definite plural stridane)
- a struggle, fight
Noun
strid f (definite singular stida or stridi, indefinite plural strider, definite plural stridene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by stri
Etymology 2
Adjective
strid (masculine and feminine strid, neuter stridt, definite singular and plural stride, comparative stridare, indefinite superlative stridast, definite superlative stridaste)
- Alternative form of stri
References
- “strid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?d
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stríðr.
Adjective
strid
- rapid, swift, rich (of a stream or rain)
- hugade spekulanter anmälde sig i en strid ström
- interested buyers arrived in a rapid flow
- hugade spekulanter anmälde sig i en strid ström
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old Norse stríð.
Noun
strid c
- a fight, a battle, a quarrel
Declension
Related terms
- närstrid
- sjöstrid
- strida
- stridshjälm
- stridsvagn
- stridsyxa
Verb
strid
- imperative of strida.
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