passage : Idioms & Phrases
Index
- air passage
- Bird of passage
- by-passage
- False passage
- Gum passages
- In passage
- inland passage
- inside passage
- Middle passage
Middle passage ,Northeast passage ,Northwest passage - musical passage
- Northeast passage
- Northwest passage
- Of passage
- Passage hawk
- Passage money
- purple passage
- rite of passage
- To work a passage
- windward passage
air passage
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noun a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
air duct; airway.
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Bird of passage
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noun someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
roamer; rover; wanderer.
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noun any bird that migrates seasonally
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- a migratory bird.
Webster 1913
by-passage
By"-pas`sage noun
Definitions
A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
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False passage
(Surg.) , an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.
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Gum passages
- sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (
Amygdalaceæ ,Cactaceæ , etc.), and affording passage for gum.
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In passage
- in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage." Bacon.
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inland passage
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noun a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska
Inland Passage.
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inside passage
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noun a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska
Inland Passage.
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Middle passage
- in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies.
Webster 1913
Middle passage , Northeast passage , Northwest passage
- . See under
Middle ,Northeast , etc.
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musical passage
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noun a short section of a musical composition
passage.
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Northeast passage
- a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of Asia.
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Northwest passage
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noun a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)
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- a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of America, long sought for by navigators.
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Of passage
- passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; said especially of birds "Birds of passage." Longfellow.
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Passage hawk
- a hawk taken on its passage or migration.
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Passage money
- money paid for conveyance of a passenger, usually for carrying passengers by water.
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purple passage
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noun a passage full of ornate and flowery language
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rite of passage
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noun a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood)
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To work a passage
(Naut.) , to pay for a passage by doing work.
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windward passage
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noun a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea