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Definition: Passage |
PassageNoun1. The act of passing from one state or place to the next. 2. Particularly a section of medium length. 3. A way through or along which someone or something may pass. 4. The passing of a law by a legislative body. 5. A journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days". 6. A short section of a musical composition. 7. A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages". 8. A bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus". 9. The motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets". 10. : the act of passing something to another person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "passage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Passage \Pas"sage\, noun. [French expression passage. See Pass, intransitive verb.]. (references) |
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Bible | Passage denotes in Josh. 22:11, as is generally understood, the place where the children of Israel passed over Jordan. The words "the passage of" are, however, more correctly rendered "by the side of," or "at the other side of," thus designating the position of the great altar erected by the eastern tribes on their return home. This word also designates the fords of the Jordan to the south of the Sea of Galilee (Judg. 12:5, 6), and a pass or rocky defile (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:4). "Passages" in Jer. 22:20 is in the Revised Version more correctly "Abarim" (q.v.), a proper name. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Law | Favorable action on a measure before either house. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | In a store, a freeway to enable circulation between stacks of packages. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A cavern opening or underground tunnel having greater length than height or width; large enough for human entrance and larger by comparison than a lead. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PASSAGE. A camp game with three dice: doublets, making up ten or more, to pass or win; any other chances lose. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | A high school air, consisting of a very cadenced, lofty trot, eith the movement of suspension clearly marked. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Long-distance land bird migration
Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere.
There is a strong genetic component to migration in terms of timing and route, but this may be modified by environmental influences. An interesting example where a change of migration route has occurred because of such a geographical barrier is the trend for some Blackcaps in central Europe to migrate west and winter in Great Britain rather than cross the Alps.
The advantage of the migration strategy is that, in the long days of the northern summer, breeding birds have more hours to feed their young on often abundant food supplies, particularly insects. As the days shorten in autumn and food supplies become scarce, the birds can return to warmer regions where the length of the day varies less and there is an all year round food supply.
The downside of migration is the hazards of the journey, especially when difficult habitats such as deserts and oceans must be crossed, and weather conditions may be adverse.
The risks of predation are also high. The Eleanora's Falcon which breeds on Mediterranean islands has a very late breeding season, timed so that autumn passerine migrants can be hunted to feed its young.
Whether a particular species migrates depends on a number of factors. The climate of the breeding area is important, and few species can cope with the harse winters of inland Canada or northern Eurasia. Thus the Blackbird Turdus merula is migratory in Scandinavia, but not in the milder climate of southern Europe.
The nature of the staple food is also important. Most specialists insect eaters are long-distance migrants, and have little choice but to head south in winter.
Sometimes the factors are finely balanced. The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra of Europe is a long-distance migrant wintering in the tropics, whereas its close relative, the Stonechat Saxicola torquata is resident in most of its range, and moves only short distances from the colder north and east.
Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as watchpoints for migrating birds. Examples are the Point Pelee National Park in Canada, and Spurn in England. Drift migration of birds blown off course by the wind can result in "falls" of large numbers of migrants at coastal sites.
Another cause of birds occurring outside their normal ranges is the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended.
A mechanism which can lead to great rarities turning up as vagrants thousands of kilometres out of range is reverse migration, where the genetic programming of young birds fails to work properly.
Recent research suggests that long-distance passerine migrants are of South American and African, rather than northern hemisphere, evolutionary origins. They are effectively southern species coming north to breed rather than northern species going south to winter.
Broad-winged long distance migrants
Some large broad-winged birds rely on thermal columns of rising hot air to enable them to soar. These include many birds of prey such as vultures, eagles and buzzards, but also storks.
Migratory species in these groups have great difficulty crossing large bodies of water, since thermals can only form over land, and these birds cannot maintain active flight for long distances.
The Mediterranean therefore presents a major obstacle to soaring birds, which are forced to cross at the narrowest points. This means that massive numbers of large raptors and storks pass through areas such as Gibraltar, Falsterbo and the Bosphorus at migration times. Commoner species, such as the Honey Buzzard can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn.
Other barriers, such as mountain ranges, can also cause funnelling, particularly of the large diurnal migrants.
Short-distance land bird migration
The long distance migrants in the previous section are effectively genetically programmed to respond to changing lengths of days. However many species move shorter distances, but may do so only in response to harsh weather conditions.
Thus mountain and moorland breeders, like the Wallcreeper and White-throated Dipper may move only altitudinally to escape the cold higher ground. Other species like the Merlin and Skylark will move further to the coast or to a more southerly region.
Species like the Chaffinch are not migratory in Great Britain, but will move south or to Ireland in very cold weather. Interesting, in Scandinavia, the female of this species migrates, but not the male, giving rise to the specific name coelebs, a batchelor.
Short distance passerine migrants have two evolutionary origins. Those which have long distance migrants in the same family, like the Chiffchaff, are species of southern hemisphere origins which have progressively shortened their return migration so that they stay in the northern hemisphere.
Those species which have no long distance migratory relative, like the waxwings, are effectively moving in response to winter weather, rather than enhanced breeding opportunities.
Wildfowl and wader migration
The typical image of migration is of northern landbirds such as swallows and birds of prey making long flights to the tropics. Many northern breeding ducks geese and swans are also long-distance migrants, but need only to move from their arctic breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.
This means that most wildfowl remain in the Northern hemisphere, but in milder countries. For example, the Pink-footed Goose migrates from Iceland to Great Britain and neighbouring countries. Usually wintering grounds are traditional and learned by the young when they migrate with their parents.
Some ducks, such as the Garganey, do move completely or partially into the tropics.
A similar situation occurs with waders (called "shorebirds" in North America). Many species, such as Dunlin and Western Sandpiper undertake long movements from their arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others like Semipalmated Sandpiper travel huge distances to the tropics.
Most of the wildfowl are large and powerful, and even the waders are strong fliers. This means that birds wintering in temperate regions have the capacity to make further shorter movements in the event of particularly inclement weather.
Seabird migration
Much of what has been said in the previous section applies to many seabirds. Some, like the Black Guillemot and some gulls are quite sedentary, others, such as most of the terns and auks breeding in the temperate northen hemisphere move south varying distances in winter. The Arctic Tern sees more daylight than any other bird, moving from its arctic breeding grounds to the antarctic wintering areas. Seabirds, of course, have the advantage that they can feed on migration.
The most pelagic species, mainly in the order Procellariiformes, are great wanderers, and the albatrosses of the southern oceans may circle the globe as they ride the "roaring forties" outside the breeding season. The tubenoses in general spread thinly over large areas of open ocean, but congregate when food becomes available.
Pelagic birding trips attract petrels and other procellarids by tipping "chum", a mixture of fish oil and offal, into the sea. Within minutes, a previously apparently empty ocean is full of petrels, fulmars and shearwaters attracted by the food.
A few seabirds, like Wilson's Petrel, and Great Shearwater are amongst the few species that breed in the southern hemispehere and migrate north in the southern winter.
Migration in the tropics
In the tropics there is little variation in the length of day throughout the year, and it is always warm enough for an adequate food supply. Apart from the seasonal movements of northern hemisphere wintering species, most species are in the broadest sense resident. However many species undergo movements of varying distances depending on the rainfall.
Many tropical regions have wet and dry seasons, the monsoons of India being perhaps the best known example. An example of a bird whose distribution is rain associated is the Woodland Kingfisher of west Africa.
There are a few species, notably cuckoos, which are genuine long-distance migrants within the tropics. An example is the Lesser Cuckoo, which breeds in India and winters in Africa.
In the high mountains, such as the Himalayas and the Andes, there are of course also altitudinal movements of greater or lesser extent by many species.
Migration in Australasia
Bird migration is primarily, but not entirely, a Northern Hemisphere phenomenon. In the Southern Hemisphere, seasonal migration tends to be much less marked. There are several reasons for this.
First, the largely uninterupted expanses of land mass or ocean tend not to funnel migrations into narrow and obvious pathways, making them less obvious to the human observer. Second, at least for terrestrial birds, climatic regions tend to fade into one another over a long distance rather than be entirely separate: this means that rather than make long trips over unsuitable habitat to reach particular destinations, migrant species can usually travel at a relaxed pace, feeding as they go: short of banding studies it is often not obvious that the birds seen in any particular locality as the seasons change are in fact different members of the same species passing through, gradually working their way north or south.
Relatively few Australasian birds migrate in the way that so many European and North American species do. This is largely a matter of geography: the Australasian climate has seasonal extremes no less compelling than those of Europe, however they are far less predictable and tend to take place over periods both shorter and longer. A couple of weeks of heavy rain in one part or another of the usually dry centre of Australia, for example, produces dramatic plant and invertebrate growth, attracting birds from all directions. This can happen at any time of year, summer or winter and, in any given area, may not happen again for a decade or more.
Broader climatic extremes are highly unpredictable also: expected seasonal heat or rain arrives or does not arrive, depending on the vaguaries of El Niño: it is commonplace to have stretches of five or ten years at a time when winter rains do not eventuate during the El Niño cycle, and equally common to have La Niña periods which turn arid zones into areas of lush grass and shallow lakes. Long distance migration requires a heavy investment in time and body mass—and given the random nature of El Niño, an investment with an uncertain return.
In broad, Australasian birds tend to be sedantry or nomadic, moving on whenever conditions become unfavourable, to whichever area happens to be more suitable at the time.
There are many exceptions, however. Some species make the long haul to breed in far distant northern climes every year, notably swifts, and a great many wading birds that breed in the Arctic Circle during the southern winter.
Many others arrive for the southern spring and summer to breed, then fly to tropical northern Australia, New Guinea, or the islands of South East Asia for the Southern winter. Examples include cuckoos, the Satin Flycatcher, the Dollarbird, and the Rainbow Bee-eater.
Others again are altitudinal migrants, moving to higher country during summer, returning to warmer areas in winter like several robins, or travel north and south with the seasons but within a relatively restricted range. The tiny 10 cm Silvereye is an example: most of the southernmost Tasmanian race crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait after breeding to disperse into Victoria, South Australia, NSW and even southern Queensland, replacing the normal residents who fly still further north, following the band of fertile country along the coast, feeding through the day and travelling mostly at night. The northernmost populations, however, are nomadic rather than migratory, as are the Silvereyes of southern Western Australia, which is bounded by thousands of miles of desert to the north and east, and sea to the south and west.
See also
- Bird ringing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bird migration."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A passage, in architecture, is a narrow room, most often called a hall, that serves to provide access to other rooms.
A passage, in physical geography, is another term for a strait, which is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water. The terms strait, channel, and passage are synonymous and are usually interchangeable.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Passage."
Synonyms: PassageSynonyms: enactment (n), handing over (n), musical passage (n), passageway (n), passing (n), transit (n), transition (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews. |
Action | Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan). |
Book | Chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding. |
Eventuality | Business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion). |
Method | Door; gateway; (opening); channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel. |
Navigation | Voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
Part | Noun: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel. |
Receptacle | Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza. |
Transference | Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction. |
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Crosswords: Passage |
| English words defined with "passage": False passage ♦ In passage ♦ Of passage ♦ Passage hawk, purple passage ♦ To work a passage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "passage": CENTRAL MERIDIAN PASSAGE ♦ North-east Passage ♦ PASSAGE BANK ♦ Red Sea, Passage of. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "passage": Tubipora. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Passage" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (passage), Dutch (gangway, gate, passage, passageway, traffic), French (approach, bit, change over, crossing, dike, flagging, gangway, gorge, move, pass, passage, passageway, passbeyond, passing, passing through, path, transit, way), German (alley, arcade, gangway, negotiation, passage), Swedish (pass, passage, passageway). |
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Screenplays | I sensed we had a long and difficult journey ahead of us. Perhaps weeks of waiting for a ship that will give us passage to England (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Robert Towne) But where's the device to speed up or slow the passage of time (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) And within an hour of having it done, my nose swelled up to four times its normal size, blocking all nasal passage, making it impossible to breathe (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Lyrics | I had to find the passage back (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES) | |
Clever | God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wataridori: Birds of Passage (1974) Passage (1973) Through the Northwest Passage (1970) Saturday's Passage (1969) Bird of Passage (1966) | |
Song Titles | Northwest Passage (performing artist: Stan Rogers) | |
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 | A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC. |  | Transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus, early passage. Credit: CDC. |
 | A herd of sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) disputes the passage of the LESTER JONES. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cruising in the Inside Passage. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Stephens Passage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Snow-covered mountains and a retreating glacier to the east of Stephens Passage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Scenery in the Inside Passage. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Sunset in the Inside Passage. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | One of the secondary channels at Sachuest Marsh during a summer high course tide. Several months after the restoration, the marsh fully recovered. The newly dug channels in the restored marsh provide passage for small fish and allow better exchange of saline waters in the hinterland regions of the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A high flow event, preconstruction. Before the fishway passage was constructed migrating fish needed to breach a 12 foot rise where the culvert dropped off. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Underground passage" by Ren Schroeder Commentary: "Underground passage." | "Let's go underground" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Underground passage entrances." |
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 | A short waltz passage typical of a Viennese waltz style. | | A techno-influenced ostinato passage very reminiscent of mid-1980's techno. |
| A xylophone playing a quick passage. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Maclaren | Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side. |
Jean De La Fontaine | Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. |
Samuel Johnson | Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. |
Thomas Fuller | He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Until the complete evacuation of German territory by the Allied and Associated troops, the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Germany freedom of passage through the air, freedom of transit and of landing. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | And Mr. Weston at the same time, walking briskly with long steps through the passage, was calling out, |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Near the end of the passage the Professor stopped |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Jean Valjean found himself, with Marius still senseless, in a sort of long underground passage. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He waited to let the whole emphasis of the preceding passage disappear and be forgotten |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | People often believe normal passage of gas to be excessive. (references) | |
Sometimes the spasm delays the passage of stool, leading to constipation. (references) | ||
Bezoars can be dangerous if they block the passage of food into the small intestine. (references) | ||
Business | In a March 1996 report, it urged passage of new laws allowing tariffs to keep pace with inflation and giving private investors “guaranteed security” in the privatization process. (references) | |
The TEPA is the key driver of the industrial waste treatment equipment market, and industry spending ebbs and flows with the passage of new regulations and TEPA enforcement efforts. (references) | ||
To boost these efforts, this was followed by passage of the Special Act on the Defense Industry in 1973. As a result of this legislation, many defense articles in the Korean defense inventory are now produced domestically. (references) | ||
Children | Japan | Whereas in 1998 INTERPOL estimated that 80 percent of Internet sites with child pornography originated in Japan, by late 1999, after passage of the law, the police reported most of these sites either had disappeared entirely or were accessible only at random hours to avoid detection and arrest. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | A telecommunications law enacted in June 2000 was criticized by the International Association of Broadcasting and domestic media upon its passage because of provisions relating to broadcast content and frequency concessions. (references) |
Costa Rica | In March 2000, public sector employees, students, taxi drivers, and other workers called a general strike that lasted several days to protest the passage of legislation that would partially open the electrical company to private participation. (references) | |
Economic History | New Zealand | It fulfilled its TRIPS Agreement obligations in most respects with the passage of the Copyright Act of 1994; Layout Designs Act of 1994; and 1994 amendments to the Patents Act of 1953, the Trade Marks Amendment Act of 1953, and the Plant Variety Rights Act of 1987. Amendments made to existing intellectual property statutes came into force on January 1, 1995. (references) |
Nicaragua | Supporters of the Pact cite decreased labor unrest and more rapid passage of legislation, while detractors claim the Pact has made government institutions more subject to control of the two main parties. (references) | |
Pakistan | SBP's autonomy was considerably strengthened with the passage of new banking laws in and the amendment of the State Bank Act in May 1997. (references) | |
Human Rights | Solomon Islands | Militants have blocked the free and safe passage of relief supplies, food, and fuel, as well as access by humanitarian organizations to Guadalcanal. (references) |
Peru | At year's end, Amnesty International reported that since passage of the 1998 legislation, only two perpetrators had been sentenced under that law. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | During the October incursions into Bethlehem, two different pregnant women were refused passage into the city for medical care while they were in labor. (references) | |
Minorities | Romania | UDMR-PSD cooperation helped facilitate the passage by Parliament of a law on local public administration in March; the law provides for the use of the maternal language in administration in areas where a national minority represents over 20 percent of the local population, which applies almost exclusively to Hungarian communities. (references) |
Slovak Republic | Tensions increased during the year as a result of a 3-week televised parliamentary debate surrounding the passage of constitutional amendments containing strong anti-Hungarian undertones. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | On March 26, 2001, almost five years after the passage of the Copyright Law, Romania carried out the first mass-destruction of seized counterfeited CDs and music tapes. (references) |
Political Rights | Vietnam | In June legislators concerned that passage of the bill would lead to widespread miscarriages of justice, rejected a bill that could have granted district courts wider powers. (references) |
Indonesia | This effort resulted in the passage of the second amendment to the Constitution during the "Annual Session" in August 2000. The second amendment did include many important changes, including provisions for protections of human rights modeled closely on the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, regional autonomy, and further separation of powers. (references) | |
Trade | Honduras | Some accomplishments of the GOH in the financial sector during 1999 include the passage of a temporary financial stabilization law, creating deposit guarantee system (with state guaranty until a fund is capitalized by bank contributions); the approval of regulations tightening rules on trust funds; and the doubling of minimum bank capital to lempira 100 million (USD 6.85 million). (references) |
Travel | Guyana | Travelers need a valid passport and a return ticket or proof of sufficient funds for onward passage. (references) |
West Bank | At present, U.S. citizens may enter and exit WB/G on a U.S. passport without obtaining visas from either Israel or the PA. Current travel within the West Bank and from the West Bank to Israel is subject to restrictions, delays are frequent, and at times, passage is restricted. (references) | |
Haiti | Visitors from the U.S., U.K. and its possessions, France and Germany may not require a visa depending on their length of stay and/or onward passage being assured. (references) | |
Women | Nepal | Members of Parliament have begun working for the passage of tougher laws for crimes of sexual assault, but have had little success so far. (references) |
Chad | FGM usually is performed prior to puberty as a rite of passage and an occasion during which many families profit from gifts from their communities. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The procedure usually is performed on young girls or at puberty as part of a rite of passage. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | In 1998 the Penal Code was altered to increase the penalty for those who recruit and transport workers domestically through the use of fraud and for those who do not assure a return passage to workers. (references) |
Cambodia | Since passage of the Labor Law in 1997, there has been confusion over the overlapping roles of labor unions and elected shop stewards. (references) | |
Hong Kong | The courts can impose heavy fines and prison sentences for up to 14 years for such activities as arranging passage of unauthorized entrants into Hong Kong, assisting unauthorized entrants to remain in Hong Kong, using or possessing a forged, false or unlawfully obtained travel document, and aiding and abetting any person to use such a document. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all. When naturally fruited, the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals. In the stern West and the sensitive South its fruit (white and black respectively) though not eaten, is agreeable to the public taste and, though not exported, profitable to the general welfare. That the legitimate relation of the tree to justice was no discovery of Judge Lynch (who, indeed, conceded it no primacy over the lamp-post and the bridge-girder) is made plain by the following passage from Morryster, who antedated him by two centuries: While in yt londe I was carried to see ye Ghogo tree, whereof I had hearde moch talk; but sayynge yt I saw naught remarkabyll in it, ye hed manne of ye villayge where it grewe made answer as followeth: "Ye tree is not nowe in fruite, but in his seasonne you shall see dependynge fr. his braunches all soch as have affroynted ye King his Majesty." And I was furder tolde yt ye worde "Ghogo" sygnifyeth in yr tong ye same as "rapscal" in our owne. Trauvells in ye Easte |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The story praises the passage of the so-called Campaign Finance Reform bill, which will give media outlets like AP more power, and limit your ability to get your message out over their heads. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The preparation and transmission to the marshals of those instructions required more time than was then allowed between the passage of the law and the day when the enumeration was to commence. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | After a long passage the promised dispatch vessel arrived. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | As I leave the Office of the Presidency, one of my greatest disappointments is our failure to secure passage of a licensing and registration act for firearms. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | A major step in the right direction would be the early passage of a greatly improved Humphrey-Hawkins bill. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Its passage can help high-unemployment areas by creating jobs and restoring neighborhoods. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal. |
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| "Passage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.93% of the time. "Passage" is used about 4,009 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.93% | 3,966 | 2,478 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.07% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,009 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "passage". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ebronah | N/A | Biblical | Passage over |
| Golan | N/A | Biblical | Passage |
| Goliath | N/A | Biblical | Passage |
| Tiphsah | N/A | Biblical | Passage |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "passage": air passage ♦ bird of passage ♦ cut out a passage from a book ♦ False passage ♦ force a passage ♦ give passage to ♦ In passage ♦ key passage ♦ mark a passage in pencil ♦ middle passage ♦ musical passage ♦ nasal passage ♦ northeast passage ♦ northwest passage ♦ of passage ♦ passage at arms ♦ passage boat ♦ passage days ♦ passage hawk ♦ passage money ♦ passage of a bill ♦ passage of a satellite ♦ passage of arms ♦ passage of line ♦ passage way ♦ purple passage ♦ rectal passage ♦ safe passage ♦ sample passage ♦ score a passage in a book ♦ secret passage ♦ Serial Passage ♦ take passage on a liner ♦ the passage of events ♦ the passage of time ♦ there no passage over! ♦ tight passage ♦ time of passage ♦ To work a passage ♦ underground passage ♦ with a through passage ♦ yard with a through passage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "passage": passage-grave, passage-graves, passage-money, passage-way, passage-ways, passage-work. | |
Ending with "passage": By-passage, chord-passage, deck-passage, mid-passage, reading-passage, rites-of-passage, sea-passage, side-passage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "passage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pasazh (arcade), udhëtim (drive, excursion, itineracy, itinerancy, journey, peregrination, ride, round trip, rove, tour, travel, trek, trip, wayfaring), udhë (doormat, journey, pathway, road, track, way), shkëmbim goditjesh, miratim ligjesh, lundrim (cruise, leeway, navigation, sail, sailing, seafaring, voyage), leje kalimi, lejë kalimi, korridor (aisle, alleyway, hall, hallway, passageway), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passageway, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition), fragment (excerpt, extract, fragment, piece). (various references) | |
Arabic | قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), رحلة بالبحر, رحلة بحرية (cruise, sail, sailing, voyage), رواق (arcade, corridor, gallery, hall, hallway, lobby, loftiness, porch), إقرار قانون, إنتقال من حالة لأخرى, طريق (approach, carriage way, course, lane, line, pass, path, pathway, ride, right path, road, route, row, run, runway, rut, track, trail, way), عبور (crossing, traffic in transit, transit), دهليز (corridor, gallery, lobby, passageway, vestibule), حق المرور (easement, right of way), فقرة (clause, paragraph, vertebra), مرور (passing, transit), مجاز (allegory, corridor, figure, image, imagery, metaphor, path, track, way), مسلك (route, track, way), مقطع (cut up, divided, division, part, section), مقطع موسع في, مقطع من لحن موسيقي, ممر (footpath, gangway, lane, passageway, path, pathway, track, way), حق السفر على سفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | откъс (excerpt, excerption, extract, fragment, segment, snatch), пасаж (alley, alleyway, passageway, place, run, school, way through), приемане (acceptance, admission, adoption, assumption, enrollment, entertainment, espousal, inspection, passing, receipt, reception, recognition), право на преминаване (right of way, thoroughfare), прелет, преминавам (adjourn, get over, get through, go by, melt, merge, overblow, overpass, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass on, proceed, run, shade, surmount, traverse), преминаване (crossing, pass, passing, transit), прекосяване, пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, cut across, go over, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, pass through, transect, traverse, truncate), произшествие (incident), проход (adit, canal, notch, orifice, pass, thoroughfare), път (approach, door, drive, driveway, fetch, gateway, itinerary, journey, key, lode, pad, part, parting, path, pathway, race, ride, riding, road, roadway, route, time, track, trail, tube, way), достъп (access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, entrance, entrйe, ingress), одобряване (adoption), събитие (do, event, fact, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence), вход (adit, admission, admission fee, admittance, door, doorway, entrance, entry, gate money, gateway, ingress, input, way in), галерия (course, gallery, gangway, loft, passageway, road, tunnel), канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), коридор (corridor, coulisse, hall, hallway, lobby, passageway, vestibule), такса за преминаване, такса за пътуване, течение (course, current, draught, drift, flow, flowage, flux, fluxion, lapse, onflow, stream, sweep, tide), тръба (aqueduct, channel, pipe, spout, trumpet, tube), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), ходене по голяма нужда (motion, movement), рейс, случка (event, experience, fact, hap, happening, incident, occurrence), епизод (chapter, episode, incident, parenthesis, scene, underaction). (various references) | |
Catalan | passadís (aisle, corridor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 通道 (channel, thoroughfare), 段落. (various references) | |
Czech | prùjezd (passageway, transit), prùchod (gateway, outlet, passageway, transit), přechod (crossing, pass, passing, transit, transition), pasáž (arcade, text), strhnout konì stranou, místo na lodi, jízda (cavalry, drive, journey, ride, run, trip), couvnout stranou, chodba (corridor, gallery, hall, hallway), chùze (gait, going, pace, step, tread, walk, walking), cesta (alley, byway, career, channel, crossing, drive, itinerary, jaunt, journey, Lane, path, pathway, ride, road, route, tour, track, trail, travel, trip, venture, voyage, walk, way). (various references) | |
Danish | passage (gangway, holding alley, passageway, transit, travelling track, travelling way, walk through, walking track, walkway), korridor (corridor), gang (corridor, occasion, time). (various references) | |
Dutch | passage (gangway, gate, passageway, traffic), gang (corridor, gallery), overloop (corridor), doorgang (gangway, gate, passageway), baan (corridor, course, function, job, office, orbit, path, post, race-course, road, route, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pasejo (gangway, gate, passageway), trairejo, koridoro (corridor). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gong (corridor, hallway). (various references) | |
Farsi | تصویب (Approbation, Approval, Okay, Ratification, Resolution, Sanction), رویداد (Circumstance, Event, Occurrence), اجازه عبور, انقضاء (Expiry, Lapse), عبارت منتخبه ازیک کتاب , عبور (Pass, Transit, Transmission, Transmittal), راهرو (Aisle, Corridor, Door, Doorway, Gallery, Gangway, Passageway, Pylon, Runway, Vestibule), سفردریا (Voyage), پاساژ, حق عبور, گذر (Pass, Transit), گذرگاه (Causeway, Defile, Gangway, Pass, Passageway, Pathway), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), کارکردن مزاج , نقل قول (Citation, Quotation, Relation), سپری شدن (Elapse, Expire, Pass). (various references) | |
Finnish | käytävä (corridor, path, walk). (various references) | |
French | couloir (passageway), passage (pass, passageway, passbeyond, passing, passing through, path), corridor. (various references) | |
German | Passage (alley, arcade, gangway, negotiation), Korridor (corridor, hall, hallway, lobby, passageway), Durchfahrt (pass, thoroughfare, transit, way through), Gang (aisle, ambulation, arcade, bout, canal, colonnade, corridor, course, development, duct, errand, gait, gallery, gang, gangway, gear, hallway, heat, landing, lode, meatus, operation, pace, passage(way), passageway, reef, running, speed, stride, thread, tunnel, vein, walk, walkway), Durchgang (alleyway, gangway, gateway, heat, passageway, round, stage, thoroughfar, transit), Flur (corridor, field, hall, hallway, landing, lea, lobby, mead, meadow, open fields). (various references) | |
Greek | πέρασμα (course, fly-by, pass, passing, way), διάβαση (crossing, transit). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבר (crossing, pass, step, thoroughfare, transfer, transit, transition), מסע (departure, journey, move in chess, run, travel, voyage), פרוזדור (antechamber, corridor, hall, hallway, vestibule), פסקה (clause, hemistich, paragraph, section), פסז', עבירה (crossing, passing by), כתוב (inscribed, text, verse, written). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vezeték (cable, canal, conduit, duct, line, wire, wiring), utazás (coaching, journey, peregrination, tour, touring, travel, travelling, trek, trip), menetjegy, kitétel (phrase, place), folyosó (aisle, corridor, course, gangway, hallway, passageway, portico), cső (barrel, conduit, duct, pipe, tube), átutazás (transit), átkelés (crossing, getting across, shooting, smooth crossing, traverse, traversing), átjáró (alley, areaway, gangway, gap, lane, passageway, pervading, stile, way through), áthaladás (crossing, pass, run, transit, transition, traverse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan lintas, gang (alley, alleyway, breezeway, corridor, gang, gangway, narrow street, passageway, slum). (various references) | |
Irish | pasáiste. (various references) | |
Italian | corridoio (aisle, corridor, gangway, hall, hallway, lobby), passaggio (aisle, arcade, changeover, conduit, crossing, entry, gangway, gateway, handing, lift, pass, passing, transfer, transit, transition, way out), varco (gap, opening), corsia (carriageway, gangway, Lane, road, route, ward, way). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 箇所 (part, place, point), 一節 (a joint, a tune, a verse, measure, note, paragraph, section, stanza, strain), 句 (17-syllable poem, clause, expression, line, paragraph, phrase, sentence, stanze, verse), 個所 (part, place, point), 渡り廊下 , パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 章句 (chapter and verse, paragraph), 可決 (adoption, approval), 箇所 (part, place, point), 通路 (pathway), 経過 (expiration, progress), 経過 (expiration, progress), 船賃 (fare, shipping charges), 通じ (evacuation, movement of the bowels), 通り道 (one's way, path, route), 通行 (passing), 通行 (passing), 章句 (chapter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パッサージ (glassed-over arcade), しょうく (chapter and verse, paragraph), ひとふし (a joint, a tune, a verse, measure, note, paragraph, section, stanza, strain), ふなちん (fare, shipping charges), つうこう (friendly relations, navigation, passing, sailing), つうろ (pathway), つうじ (evacuation, movement of the bowels), かしょ (book of poems, letter from home, part, place, point), かけつ (adoption, approval, conditional approval), いっせつ (a joint, a tune, a verse, another report, measure, note, paragraph, section, stanza, strain), わたりろうか, けいか (capital, expiration, flower capital, light of a firefly, progress), とおりみち (one's way, path, route), く (17-syllable poem, bend over, clause, district, expression, line, nine, paragraph, phrase, section, sentence, stanze, verse, ward). (various references) | |
Korean | 통행 (Pass). (various references) | |
Manx | turrys (crossing, crossing of sea, excursion, expedition, itinerary, jaunt, journey, outing, progress, run, tour, transit, transit of planet, trip, walk, walk of postman), sluight (children's children, descendant, family, lineage, offspring, parentage, posterity, progeniture, race, remnant, seed), meer (bait, bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, par, part, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment), limmer (passage way, scupper), goll (departure, disembark, go, going, show out, sinking), fosley (answer, answer door, broach as cargo; overture, broach; overture, burst, develop, disclose, disillusion, explode, introduction, lane, lane in ice field, open, open out, open up, opening, orifice, placket hole, slit, strike out, unbosom, unclench, unhook, unhook as clothing), entreilys (access, admission, entrance, entry, induction), cassan (path, pavement, sidewalk, thoroughfare, trajectory), beeal (approach, cone, crater, flue, mouth, muzzle, orifice, outlet, rictus, rim). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assagepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | passagem (access, alleyway, carfare, col, communication, corridor, fare, ferry, gangway, gate, gatemoney, gateway, highroad crossing, inlet, pass, passageway, passing, place, switch-over, ticket, transit, transition, way), corredor (access, ambulatory, corridor, gallery, hall, highroad crossing, lobby, passageway, racer, runner, runner-up, running, runny, starter). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | passagem. (various references) | |
Romanian | pasaj (aisle, arcade, excerpt, extract, fragment, gangway, gateway, pass, passage way, thoroughfare, tunnel), incident (case, circumstance, happening, incident, occurrence, parenthesis), aprobare (acceptance, approbation, approval, cheer, concurrence, countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction), cãlãtorie (drive, excursion, journey, perambulation, ride, riding, run, sail, tour, travel, trip, voyage), ciocnire (affair, bump, clash, click, collision, concussion, conflict, contradiction, dash, encounter, foul, hit, impact, jar, jostle, shock), coridor (corridor, gallery, gangway, hall, hallway, Lane, lobby, pass, passage way), desfãşurare (course, development, display, evolution, fireworks, March, operation, process, progress, spread, unfolding), discuţii, drum (course, drive, highway, journey, path, road, route, Street, thoroughfare, trace, track, trajectory, trip, voyage, walk, way), episod (chapter, episode, event, incident, page, parenthesis), eveniment (accident, circumstance, event, happening, incident), întâmplare (accident, adventure, case, chance, contingency, event, fact, fate, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, incidence, incident, luck, occasionality, occurrence), fragment (chip, excerpt, extract, fragment, ort, piece, portion, scrap, sketch, snatch), votare (carriage, poll, vote, voting), moarte (death, decease, disappearance, doom, dying, end, exit, fatality, fate, grave, parting, passing, slaughter, the tomb), modificare (alteration, change, improvement, modification, shift, turn), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, novelty, shift, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, variance, variation), scurgere (course, discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leakage, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passing, running, trickling), transbordare (reloading), transformare (alteration, change, chop, conversion, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, recast, reclamation, transformation, transforming, turn), traversare (crossing), trecere (alley, credit, cropper, crossing, influence, Lane, March, pass, passage way, passing, transit, transition, way, weight), voiaj (journey, tour, travel, trip, voyage), evoluţie (development, evolution, process, progress). (various references) | |
Russian | ход (chain, course, motion, move, movement, rate, run, traverse), течение событий, течение (course, current, drift, flight, flow, flowing, flux, lapse, onflow, progress, run, stream, tenor, trend), коридор (aisle, corridor, hallway, passageway), вход (adit, admission, admittance, admittances, approach, doorway, embouchure, entrance, entry, gateway, ingoing, ingress, login, mouth), отрывок (excerpt), проход;проезд, проход (access, adit, aisle, alleyway, aqueduct, canal, channel, entry, fairway, gangway, gate, orifice, pass, passageway, passway, runway, steam ship, thoroughfare, walkway), проезд (driveway, thoroughfare, throughfare, transit), пересекать (cross, cut, intersect, overpass, pass, take across, traverse), пассаж (passageway). (various references) | |
Scottish | slighe (a way, path, road, route, way). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | put (drive, flesh, onto, path, road, time, to, tour, towards, trip, way), prolaz (aisle, breach, channel, gangway, gateway, pass, thoroughfare, transit), prolaženje (passing, perambulation, pervasion), pasus (paragraph), pasaž, ulaz (admission, doorway, entrance, ingress, mouth), odlomak (cantle, excerption, fragment, scrap, segment, shiver), koridor (corridor), izlaz (egression, exit, issue, outlet, output, pass), hodnik (corridor, couloir, foyer, hall, hallway, passageway). (various references) | |
Spanish | paso (advance, advances, clearing, crossing, deed, despatch, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, move, movement, overtaking, pace, pass, passageway, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout), pasillo (aisle, corridor, gangway, hall, Lane, lobby, passageway, promenade, way), pasaje (airbill, alleyway, arcade, carfare, channel, crossing, fare, pass, passage money, passageway, piece, ticket, view, voyage), pasadizo (catwalk, corridor, gangway, passageway), corredor (agent, broker, corridor, crier, death row, finger, galloping, hall, jobber, racer, runner, starter). (various references) | |
Swedish | korridor (alley, areaway, corridor, hall, hallway, lobby, passageway), passage (pass, passageway), pass (beat, defile, pass, passport), genomfart (pass, thoroughfare, way through), gång (action, aisle, corridor, course, duct, foot, gait, gangway, go, going, motion, moving, occasion, operation, pace, passageway, path, progress, road, route, running, the passage of time, time, tread, vent, walk, walking, walkway, way, working), överresa (crossing, transit), överfart (crossing). (various references) | |
Turkish | pasaj (alley, arcade, gangway, passageway), parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, patch, piece, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), yolculuk (headway, journey, peregrination, travel, trip, voyage), koridor (aisle, corridor, hall, hallway, passageway, vista), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, station, vessel), geçme (contagion, dissemination, encroachment, fitting, intervention, lapse, pass, passing, permeation, slip on, splice, tenon, transit, transmigration, whirligig), geçit (access, aisle, alley, alleyway, causeway, close, corridor, crossing, crossover, gangway, gap, gate, gateway, gorge, gullet, gut, parade, pass, passageway, runway, Strait, thoroughfare, vestibule, walkway), geçiş (changeover, modulation, pass, passing, progression, transition), dehliz (cloister, corridor, gallery, vestibule, vista), bağırsakların çalışması (movement), akış (afflux, course, efflux, flight, flow, flux, gliding, inflow, influx, pour, river, run, tenor, tide). (various references) | |
Turkmen | olum (crossing, ford), цtelge, geзelge. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уривок (excerpt, snatch), рейс (journey, run, running), хід (burrow, cavalcade, chain, course, motion, move, process, progress, run, running, tide, way), шлях (channel, doorway, path, road, way), коридор (aisle, alley, alleyway, corridor, hallway), проходження (passing, posteriority, transit, transmission), перетворення (conversion, converting, metamorphosis, reduction, reformation, transfiguration, transformation, transmutation), пасаж (arcade). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chuyện trò trao đổi giữa hai người, sự đi qua (crossing, transit), cuộc va chạm, cuộc cãi cọ. (various references) | |
Welsh | tramwyfa (thoroughfare), mynedfa (avenue, entrance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | iten. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aevi, aevo, aevum, andronico, andronicum, evi, iter, itinera, itinere, itineribus, itineris, perforabis, perforabit, perforabitque, perforabunt, perforari, perforatur, transitu, transitum, transitus, transituum, transmisso. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exhlqen ex upostasewV twn allofulwn thn en tw peran macemaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Egressa est autem statio Philisthim ut transcenderet in Machmas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe the stacioun of Philistym wente out, for to stye ouer into aspijs to fiyt. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang panon sa mga sundalo nga bantay sa kuta sa mga Filistehanon miadto sa alagianan sa Michmas. |
| Croatian | A dotle jedna straža filistejska bijaše izišla prema klancu kod Mikmasa. |
| Danish | Filisternes Forpost rykkede frem til Mikmaspasset. |
| Dutch | En der Filistijnen leger toog naar den doortocht van Michmas. |
| Finnish | Mutta filistealaisten vartiosto lähti Mikmaan solatielle. |
| French | Un poste de Philistins vint s`établir au passage de Micmasch. |
| German | Und eine Wache der Philister zog heraus an den engen Weg von Michmas. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun Filisti yo voye yon ganizon al defann pas Mikmas la. |
| Hungarian | És a Filiszteusok elõõrse kijöve Mikmás szorosához. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang Filistin menempatkan sebuah pos penjagaan untuk mempertahankan sebuah sela gunung di Mikhmas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka kawal laskar orang Filistin sudah keluar, lalu pergi ke jurang Mikhmas. |
| Italian | Intanto una guarnigione di Filistei era uscita verso il passo di Micmas. |
| Maori | Na ka haere nga hoia pupuri a nga Pirihitini ki te whakawhitinga atu o Mikimaha. |
| Norwegian | Filistrenes forpost rykket frem til Mikmas-skaret. |
| Portuguese | E saiu a guarnição dos filisteus para o desfiladeiro de Micmás. |
| Rumanian | O ceatq de Filisteni a venit wi s`a awezat la trecqtoarea Micmawului. |
| Swedish | Men filistéerna läto en utpost rycka fram till passet vid Mikmas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "passage": passaged, passages, passageway, passageways, passagework, passageworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "passage": repassage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "passage": repassages. (additional references) | |
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"Passage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assage, pasage, Pasaje, Pasanen, Pashane, passade, passaged, passagem, passare, Passauer, passave, Passega, passibe, Pmspace, pssage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "passage" (pronounced pa"suj) |
| 3 | -s u j | dosage, message, sausage, usage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-p-s-s" | |
-2 letters: agape, apses, gapes, gases, gasps, pages, pases, passe, peags, sagas, sages, spaes. | |
-3 letters: agas, ages, apes, apse, asea, asps, gaes, gape, gaps, gasp, page, pase, pass, peag, peas, pegs, saga, sage, sags, saps, seas, segs, spae, spas. | |
-4 letters: aas, aga, age, ape, asp, ass, ess, gae, gap, gas, pas, pea, peg, pes, sae. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: passaged, passages. | |
+2 letters: paganises, repassage. | |
+3 letters: disparages, glasspaper, palsgraves, parsonages, passageway, pasturages, plasmagels, plateglass, repassages, scapegoats, scrappages. | |
+4 letters: asparagines, disparagers, glasspapers, megaparsecs, mispackages, parageneses, paragenesis, passageways, passagework, plagiarises, plasmagenes, scapegraces. | |
+5 letters: agapanthuses, ergastoplasm, gamesmanship, glasspapered, greasepaints, managerships, passageworks, plagioclases, plasmogamies, scapegoatism, steatopygias, straphangers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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