A Quick and Simple Dictionary

passage

1. Noun.  A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
2. Noun.  Part of a path or journey.
3. Noun.  The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
4. Noun.  An artistic term describing use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
5. Noun.  A passageway or corridor.
6. Noun.  (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
7. Noun.  The vagina.
8. Noun.  The act of passing.
9. Verb.  (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a hosts or media.
10. Verb.  (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
11. Noun.  (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.
12. Verb.  (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.