Sekirov Dictionary

passage

/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

noun15

  1. Part of a path or journey.
  2. a few sentences of writing, or a few lines of music, that hold one thought together
  3. A passageway or corridor.
  4. A strait or other narrow waterway.
  5. An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  6. (euphemistic) The vagina.
  7. The advance of time.
  8. The act of passing; movement across or through.
  9. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
  10. The right to pass from one place to another.
  11. An incident or episode.
  12. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
  13. Serial passage.
  14. The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  15. (historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

verb2

  1. To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
  2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.

adjective[before a noun]1

  1. Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
passage
/ˈpasɑːʒ/

noun1

  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.

verb1

  1. To execute a passage movement.
forms

passaged · passaging · passages

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