passage: signification et définitions

The act or process of passing, especially:

A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration.

The process of elapsing: the passage of time.

The process of passing from one condition or stage to another; transition: the passage from childhood to adulthood.

Enactment into law of a legislative measure.

A journey, especially one by air or water: a rough passage on the stormy sea.

The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship: book passage; pay for one's passage.

The right, permission, or power to come and go freely: Only medical supply trucks were granted safe passage through enemy territory.

A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass: the nasal passages.

A corridor. See Synonyms at way.

An occurrence or event: "Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control” ( Helen Kitchen).

Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons: a passage at arms.

A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

Music A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer: a passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

Physiology An act of emptying, as of the bowels.

Biology The process of passing or maintaining a group of microorganisms or cells through a series of hosts or cultures.

Obsolete Death.

A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.

To execute such a trot in dressage.

To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.