different between passage vs track

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t?æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

track (plural tracks)

1. A mark left by something that has passed along.

   Synonyms: trace, trail, wake

2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.

   Synonyms: footprint, impression

3. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
4. A road or other similar beaten path.

   Synonyms: path, road, way

5. Physical course; way.

   Synonyms: course, path, trajectory, way

6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

   Synonyms: course, racetrack
7. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
8. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.

   Synonyms: rails, railway, train tracks, tracks

9. A tract or area, such as of land.

   Synonyms: area, parcel, region, tract

10. (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
    • 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game (page 11)

      A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.

    • 2012, Paul D. Jones, Twilight Nights: The Trials and Tribulations of the Game (page 130)

      After putting Tonya Down on the track, we headed to this club called the Players Club.

11. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
12. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

    Synonym: track width

13. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
14. (cricket) The pitch.

    Synonyms: ground, pitch

15. Sound stored on a record.

    Synonym: recording

16. The physical track on a record.

    Synonym: groove

17. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.

18. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
19. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.

    Synonyms: athletics, track and field

    • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record

      The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

20. A themed set of talks within a conference.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• path
• trail

Verb

track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)

1. To continue over time.
   1. (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.

      We will track the raven population over the next six months.

   2. (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.

      Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.

   3. (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.

      My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.

   4. (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.

      The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.

   5. (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.

      The hurricane tracked further west than expected.

   6. (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
      • 1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P. (page 228)

        I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I have tracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude; […]

   7. (transitive) To tow.
   8. (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.

      Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?

      • 2004, Catherine Anderson, Blue Skies, Penguin (?ISBN), page 39:

        Bess already knew about the painkillers and alcohol not mixing well.... "I wasn't tracking very well."

      • 2010 October 1, "karimitch" (username), "Memory Loss - Pancreatic Cancer Forums", in cancerforums.net, Cancer Forums:

        My mother in the past couple of days has started to really get confused and lose her train of thought easily.... She isn't tracking very well.

2. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.

   My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.

   1. (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.

      I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.

      • 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters:

        "She could be at any hospital...she could be ill. It's not clear whether she has fled," he told reporters. "Yingluck has many homes and many cars. It is difficult to track her."

   2. (transitive) To leave in the form of tracks.

      In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.

3. (transitive) To make tracks on.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

   Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.

   1. (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
      • 2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music

        At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.

5. (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information

Synonyms

• (observe the state of an object over time): monitor
• (monitor the movement of a person or object): follow
• (discover the location of a person or object): find, locate, trace, track down
• (be consistent with known information): make sense, check out

Derived terms

• track down
• track with
• tracking shot

Related terms

• tracker

Translations

Spanish

Etymology

From English track.

Noun

track m (plural tracks)

1. (sports) track