📖 Определения и значения для слова passage
📒 a long narrow area with walls on either side that connects one room or place with another
- A dark narrow passage led to the main hall.
- a secret underground passage
- Someone was waiting outside in the passage.
📒 a tube in the body through which air, liquid, etc. passes
- blocked nasal passages
📒 a short section from a book, piece of music, etc.
- Read the following passage and answer the questions below.
- I have quoted this passage at length.
- passage from/in something a passage from the Bible
📒 the process of time passing
- Her confidence grew with the passage of time.
- rituals which mark the passage of the seasons
📒 the process of discussing a bill in a parliament so that it can become law
- The bill is now guaranteed an easy passage through the House of Representatives.
- He deserves credit for ensuring the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
- Starr voted for the final passage of the bill.
📒 a journey from one place to another by ship
- Her grandfather had worked his passage (= worked on a ship to pay for the journey) to America.
- The canal route was shorter than the sea passage around the northern coast.
- It was a long, rough passage, battling into the wind for seven hours.
📒 a way through something
- The officers forced a passage through the crowd.
- a narrow passage through the bushes
- to clear a passage for ships through the ice
📒 the action of going across, through or past something
- Large trees may obstruct the passage of light.
- State-of-the-art suspension guarantees a smooth passage over the bumpiest road.
- Steps cut in the hillside give walkers an easy passage down the mountain.
📒 the permission to travel across a particular area of land
- We were promised (a) speedy passage through the border.
- If the law were passed, EU nationals would no longer enjoy free passage through member states.
- The Security Council has demanded free passage for families fleeing from the fighting.