Passage vs. Story — What's the Difference?

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

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment

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

An account of past events in someone's life or in the development of something

The process of transition from one state to another

The commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company

A short extract from a book or other printed material

Variant spelling of storey

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

An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events

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

An anecdote

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

A lie

Movement from one place to another

A usually fictional prose or verse narrative intended to interest or amuse the hearer or reader; a tale.

The process of elapsing

A short story.

The process of changing from one condition or stage to another; transition

The plot of a narrative or dramatic work.

Enactment into law of a legislative bill.

A news article or broadcast.

A journey, especially one by air or water

Something viewed as or providing material for a literary or journalistic treatment

The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship

The background information regarding something

The right, permission, or power to come and go freely

Romantic legend or tradition

A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass

A complete horizontal division of a building, constituting the area between two adjacent floors.

A corridor.

The set of rooms on the same floor of a building.

An occurrence or event

To decorate with scenes representing historical or legendary events.

Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons

(Archaic) To tell as a story.

A segment of a written work or speech

An account of real or fictional events.

(Music) A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer

A lie, fiction.

A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

A soap opera.

(Physiology) The process of discharging something from a bodily part, such as evacuation of waste from the bowels.

(obsolete) History.

(Medicine) The introduction of an instrument into a bodily cavity.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

(Obsolete) Death.

A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.

(computing) user story

To execute such a trot in dressage.

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

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

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

Part of a path or journey.

The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

An incident or episode.

A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

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

To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

The advance of time.

A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

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

A piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;

A passageway or corridor.

Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;

(nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.

A record or narrative description of past events;

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

A short account of the news;

(euphemistic) The vagina.

A trivial lie;

The act of passing; movement across or through.

The right to pass from one place to another.

A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

Serial passage.

A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

(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.

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

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

To execute a passage movement.

Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

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.

Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

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

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

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.

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

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

A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

Reception; currency.

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

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

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 act of passing from one state or place to the next

A section of text; particularly a section of medium length

A way through or along which someone or something may pass

The passing of a law by a legislative body

A journey usually by ship;

A short section of a musical composition

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

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

The motion of one object relative to another;

The act of passing something to another person