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Meaning of passages

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

passages

Pronunciation:/ˈpæsɪdʒɪz/

noun

Definitions

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

    Example: She struggled to play the difficult passages.

  2. Part of a path or journey.

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

  3. An incident or episode.

  4. 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.

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

    Example: They passaged to America in 1902.

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

verb

Definitions

  1. To execute a passage movement