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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)
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trough
English
Etymology
From Middle English trough, trowgh, trow, trou?, trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-Germanic *trug?, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian ?????? (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)). More at tree.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US) enPR: trôf, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: tr?f, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA(key): /t???/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /t???/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
trough (plural troughs)
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Synonyms
- manger (container for feeding animals)
Derived terms
- water trough
Translations
Verb
trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
See also
- crib
- ditch
- trench
Anagrams
- Rought, rought
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