passage : Idioms & Phrases

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air passage

  • noun a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
    air duct; airway.
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Bird of passage

  • noun someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
    roamer; rover; wanderer.
  • noun any bird that migrates seasonally
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  • a migratory bird.
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by-passage

By"-pas`sage noun
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  1. 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

  • noun a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska
    Inland Passage.
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inside passage

  • 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.
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Middle passage, Northeast passage, Northwest passage

  • . See under Middle, Northeast, etc.
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musical passage

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun a passage full of ornate and flowery language
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rite of passage

  • 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

  • noun a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea
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