Passage /(?)/

Pas·sage

Passage

n.
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
    What! are my doors opposed against my passage!
  2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
    The ship in which he had taken passage.
  3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
  4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.]
    When he is fit and season'd for his passage.
  5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
    And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart.
    The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.
  6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
    The conduct and passage of affairs.
    The passage and whole carriage of this action.
  7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
    The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.
  8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
    How commentators each dark passage shun.
  9. Reception; currency. [Obs.]
  10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
    No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.
  11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
  12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
    The final question was then put upon its passage.
    — Cushing.

Phrases & Compounds
In passage
in passing; cursorily.
Middle passage
See under Middle, Northeast, etc.
Of passage
passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds.
Passage hawk
a hawk taken on its passage or migration.
Passage money
money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.