What is "passage"

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:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

       Syn: Vestibule; hall; corridor. See Vestibule.

early 13c., "a road, passage;" late 13c., "action of passing," from Old French passage "mountain pass, passage" (11c.), from passer "to go by" (see pass (v.)). Meaning "corridor in a building" first recorded 1610s. Meaning "a portion of writing" is from 1610s, of music, from 1670s.

Etymology 1 n. 1 A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. 2 Part of a path or journey. 3 The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. 4 (context art English) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works. 5 A passageway or corridor. 6 (context caving English) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide. 7 (context euphemistic English) The vagin

1. 8 The act of passing v

2. 1 (context medicine English) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium 2 (context rare English) To make a #Noun, especially by sea; to cross Etymology 2

   n. (context dressage English) 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. vb. (context intransitive dressage English) To execute a passage movement

1. n. 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]

Passage may refer to:

Passage is an album by the Texan hard rock band Bloodrock released under Capitol Records in 1972. It is the band's first album with a true progressive rock sound. On this album, the band sounds strikingly different from their earlier releases due to significant changes in their line-up. Warren Ham (lead vocals) was added in place of departed original members Jim Rutledge (lead vocals) and Lee Pickens (lead guitar).

Passage is a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2008. It is the third in the tetralogy The Sharing Knife.

Passage is a 2009 joint American- Swiss drama film and the first short film to be directed by Shekhar Kapur, and stars Haley Bennett, Julia Stiles and Lily Cole.

Passage (2007) is a historical novel by John David Morley, the story of one man’s journey through five centuries of existence in the New World.

Passage is a 2007 experimental video game developed by Jason Rohrer. Since its release it has become a significant entry in the burgeoning debate of video games as an art form. Rohrer himself has been an outspoken proponent of advancing the artistic integrity of the medium.

In the game, the player spends five minutes experiencing a character's entire lifetime, with results that many commentators have described as emotionally powerful.

Rohrer has described the title as a " memento mori" game.

The passage is a movement seen in upper-level dressage, in which the horse performs a highly elevated and extremely powerful trot. The horse is very collected and moves with great impulsion. The passage differs from the working, medium, collected, and extended trot in that the horse raises a diagonal pair high off the ground and suspends the leg for a longer period than seen in the other trot types. The hindquarters are very engaged, and the knees and hocks are flexed more than the other trot types. The horse appears to trot in slow motion, making it look as if it is dancing. The passage is first introduced in the dressage intermediaire test II. A horse must be well-confirmed in its training to perform the passage, and must be proficient in collecting while remaining energetic, calm, and supple. The horse must also have built up the correct muscles to do the strenuous movement.

Passage is a science fiction novel by Connie Willis, published in 2001. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 2002, was shortlisted for the Nebula Award in 2001, and received nominations for the Hugo, Campbell, and Clarke Awards in 2002.

Passage follows the efforts of Joanna Lander, a research psychologist, to understand the phenomenon of near-death experiences (or NDEs) by interviewing hospital patients after they are revived following clinical death. Her work with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has discovered a way to chemically induce an artificial NDE and conduct an "RIPT" brain scan during the experience, leads her to the discovery of the biological purpose of NDEs. Science fiction scholar Gary K. Wolfe writes, "Willis tries something truly astonishing: without resorting to supernaturalism on the one hand or clinical reportage on the other, without forgoing her central metaphor, she seeks to lift the veil on what actually happens inside a dying mind." Through Lander's work, Dr. Wright is able to develop a medicine that brings patients back from clinical death.

The novel contains enlightening discussions of various disasters, including the RMS Titanic, the Hartford circus fire, the Hindenburg disaster, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, the Boston Molasses Disaster, and, almost as prominently as the Titanic, the sinking of the USS Yorktown. (Willis has written extensively in several novels about events in World War II.)

Passage is the fourth album by Swiss Industrial metal band Samael. On this album, the band opted for more intensive use of keyboards and industrial sounds, drifting from their black metal roots and progressing in a different direction. Lyrically the band abandoned satanic themes and veered more towards the occult and the cosmic.

While it differs from its predecessors, Passage can be credited for thrusting Samael from the underground scene and giving the band a much larger international audience.

The album was originally recorded with a 17 song track list but was later cut down to 11. The remaining songs can be found on the album Exodus. A second edition was later offered containing 10 classical piano compositions from the album on a second disk.

In 2007, a remastered, re-packaged, special edition was released containing the album's original 17 song track list.

Over a decade after its original release, Passage is still considered by many to be a pillar in the black/ industrial metal genre.

A video for "Jupiterian Vibe" received regular airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball.

The album was produced by Waldemar Sorychta, who would go on to work with bands such as Lacuna Coil.

David Bryant, better known by his stage name Passage, is an alternative hip hop artist based in Oakland, California. He is a member of Restiform Bodies along with Bomarr and Telephone Jim Jesus.

Passage is an outdoor 2014 art installation consisting of 38 weathered steel boat sculptures by Bill Will, installed along the MAX Orange Line in the Brooklyn neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

Passage is the eighth album by American popular music duo Carpenters. Released in 1977, it produced the hit singles " All You Get from Love Is a Love Song", " Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and " Sweet, Sweet Smile". The Carpenters' version of "Sweet, Sweet Smile" (written by Juice Newton) was picked up by Country radio and put the duo in the top ten of Billboard's Country chart in the spring of 1978.

This album was a considerable departure for the siblings and contained experimental material such as the Klaatu cover "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" single—which reached no. 32 in the US but was a top ten hit in much of the world (and prompted numerous letters to the Carpenters asking when World Contact Day was scheduled). Ironically, the album's release predated Steven Spielberg's similarly themed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind by one month. Nonetheless, the album was the group's first to fall short of gold standard in the US.

This is the only Carpenters album (aside from their Christmas albums) not to contain a Richard Carpenter or John Bettis song and also the second album to not have Karen playing drums at all.

Passage is a 2008 documentary film partly based on the book Fatal Passage about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Northwest Passage. The film explores the fate of the doomed mission, including John Rae's efforts to uncover the truth, and Lady Franklin's campaign to defend her late husband's reputation. The film also features Inuit statesman Tagak Curley, who challenges claims made by Lady Franklin supported by her powerful friend, the story teller and "famous author Charles Dickens", widely reported at the time, that Aboriginal people were responsible for the signs of cannibalism among the remains of the doomed crew.

It premiered at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, Canada in April 2008.

Passage has two main storylines. The first shows John Walker and crew, making an historical fiction film; it includes script readings, discussions and scenes from the film they are making. The second story line is completely non-fiction. It includes paintings with narratives, cast and crew visiting the places Rae knew ( Orkney, the Arctic) and Inuit culture and experts.

The film was written, directed and narrated by John Walker. It stars Rick Roberts as John Rae and Geraldine Alexander as Lady Franklin.