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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Passage \Pas"sage\, n. [F. passage. See {Pass}, v. i.]
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!
--Shak.
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. --Macaulay.
3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's
passage.
4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.]
``Endure thy mortal passage.'' --Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage. --Shak.
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. --Dryden.
The Persian army had advanced into the . . .
passages of Cilicia. --South.
6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or
continuous series; as, the passage of time.
The conduct and passage of affairs. --Sir J.
Davies.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
--Shak.
7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an
occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. ``In thy passages
of life.'' --Shak.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their
unbelief. --South.
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. --Young.
9. Reception; currency. [Obs.] --Sir K. Digby.
10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward
evermore. --Tennyson.
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 passage of the Stamp Act.'' --D. Hosack.
The final question was then put upon its
passage. --Cushing.
{In passage}, in passing; cursorily. ``These . . . have been
studied but in passage.'' --Bacon.
{Middle passage}, {Northeast passage}, {Northwest passage}.
See under {Middle}, {Northeast}, etc.
{Of passage}, passing from one place, region, or climate, to
another; migratory; -- said especially of birds. ``Birds
of passage.'' --Longfellow.
{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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
passage
n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn:
{transition}]
2: a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
3: a way through or along which someone or something may pass
4: the passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: {enactment}]
5: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10
days" [syn: {transit}]
6: a short section of a musical composition [syn: {musical
passage}]
7: a path or channel or duct through or along which something
may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: {passageway}]
8: a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to
another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing
of flatus" [syn: {passing}]
9: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passing}]
10: the act of passing something to another person [syn: {handing
over}]