Citation vs. Passage

Citationnoun

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.

Passagenoun

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

‘passage of scripture’; ‘She struggled to play the difficult passages.’;

Citationnoun

The paper containing such summons or notice.

Passagenoun

Part of a path or journey.

‘He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.’;

Citationnoun

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his/her own words.

Passagenoun

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

‘The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.’;

Citationnoun

An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.

Passagenoun

(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

Citationnoun

The passage or words quoted; quotation.

Passagenoun

A passageway or corridor.

Citationnoun

Enumeration; mention.

‘It's a simple citation of facts.’;

Passagenoun

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

Citationnoun

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Passagenoun

(euphemistic) The vagina.

Citationnoun

A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.

Passagenoun

The act of passing

Citationnoun

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

Passagenoun

(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.

Citationnoun

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

‘This horse load of citations and fathers.’;

Passageverb

(medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

‘He passaged the virus through a series of goats.’; ‘After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.’;

Citationnoun

Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

Passageverb

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

‘They passaged to America in 1902.’;

Citationnoun

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Passageverb

To execute a passage movement

Citationnoun

an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement

Passagenoun

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!’;

Citationnoun

(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)

Passagenoun

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.’;

Citationnoun

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;

‘the student's essay failed to list several important citations’; ‘the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book’; ‘the article includes mention of similar clinical cases’;

Passagenoun

Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

Citationnoun

a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Passagenoun

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

‘When he is fit and season'd for his passage.’;

Citationnoun

a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding

Passagenoun

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 dartExplores the nearest passage to his heart.’; ‘The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.’;

Citationnoun

thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948

Passagenoun

A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

‘The conduct and passage of affairs.’; ‘The passage and whole carriage of this action.’;

Citation

A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.

Passagenoun

A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.

‘The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.’;

Passagenoun

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.’;

Passagenoun

Reception; currency.

Passagenoun

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

‘No passages of loveBetwixt us twain henceforward evermore.’;

Passagenoun

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

Passagenoun

In parliamentary proceedings: (a) 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. (b) 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 final question was then put upon its passage.’;

Passagenoun

the act of passing from one state or place to the next

Passagenoun

a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

Passagenoun

a way through or along which someone or something may pass

Passagenoun

the passing of a law by a legislative body

Passagenoun

a journey usually by ship;

‘the outward passage took 10 days’;

Passagenoun

a short section of a musical composition

Passagenoun

a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass;

‘the nasal passages’;

Passagenoun

a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another;

‘the passage of air from the lungs’; ‘the passing of flatus’;

Passagenoun

the motion of one object relative to another;

‘stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets’;

Passagenoun

the act of passing something to another person

Passagenoun

the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another

‘there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock’;

Passagenoun

the action or process of moving forward

‘despite the passage of time she still loved him’;

Passagenoun

the right to pass through somewhere

‘we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy’;

Passagenoun

a journey by sea or air

‘I booked a passage on the next ship’;

Passagenoun

(of a migrating bird) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination

‘a passage migrant’; ‘the species occurs regularly on passage’;

Passagenoun

a narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway

‘the larger bedroom was at the end of the passage’;

Passagenoun

a duct, vessel, or other channel in the body.

Passagenoun

the process of transition from one state to another

‘an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge’;

Passagenoun

the passing of a bill into law

‘a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law’;

Passagenoun

a short extract from a book or other printed material

‘he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again’;

Passagenoun

a section of a piece of music

‘an orchestral passage’;

Passagenoun

an episode in a spell of longer activity such as a sporting event

‘a neat passage of midfield play’;

Passagenoun

the propagation of microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence

‘cultured cells can replicate on serial passage for predictable periods of time’;

Passagenoun

a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.

Passageverb

subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage

‘each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively’;