passageとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

passage (複数形 passages)

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

   passage of scripture

   She struggled to play the difficult passages.

2. Part of a path or journey.

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

3. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

   The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.

4. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
5. A passageway or corridor.
6. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
7. (euphemistic) The vagina.
   • 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,^[1] New American Library, →ISBN, page 463:

     With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]

   • 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 53:

     This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.

   • 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 249:

     At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.

8. The act of passing
   • 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29

     He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.

派生語

• rite of passage
• passagemaker
• passage maker

動詞

passage (三人称単数 現在形 passages, 現在分詞 passaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 passaged)

1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

   He passaged the virus through a series of goats.

   After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.

2. (まれに) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

   They passaged to America in 1902.

語源 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈpasɑːʒ/

名詞

passage (複数形 passages)

1. (dressage) 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.

動詞

passage (三人称単数 現在形 passages, 現在分詞 passaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 passaged)

1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement
   • 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope‎^[2], page 18:

     After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]

Further reading

• passage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• passage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• passage at OneLook Dictionary Search