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A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

Example: She struggled to play the difficult passages.

Part of a path or journey.

Example: He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.

An incident or episode.

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

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

To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

Example: After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.

To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

Example: They passaged to America in 1902.

Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)

Example: 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.

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.

To execute a passage movement