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Passage vs. Travel

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Passagenoun

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

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

Travelverb

(intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

‘I like to travel.’;

Passagenoun

Part of a path or journey.

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

Travelverb

(intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.

‘Soundwaves can travel through water.’;

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.’;

Travelverb

To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

Passagenoun

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

Travelverb

(transitive) To travel throughout (a place).

‘I’ve travelled the world.’;

Passagenoun

A passageway or corridor.

Travelverb

(transitive) To force to journey.

Passagenoun

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

Travelverb

(obsolete) To labour; to travail.

Passagenoun

(euphemistic) The vagina.

Travelnoun

The act of traveling.

‘space travel’; ‘travel to Spain’;

Passagenoun

The act of passing

Travelnoun

A series of journeys.

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.

Travelnoun

An account of one's travels.

‘I’m off on my travels around France again.’;

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.’;

Travelnoun

The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.

Passageverb

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

‘They passaged to America in 1902.’;

Travelnoun

The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

‘There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.’; ‘My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.’;

Passageverb

To execute a passage movement

Travelnoun

(obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

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!’;

Travelverb

To labor; to travail.

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.’;

Travelverb

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

Passagenoun

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

Travelverb

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

Passagenoun

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

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

Travelverb

To pass; to go; to move.

‘Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.’;

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.’;

Travelverb

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

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.’;

Travelverb

To force to journey.

‘They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.’;

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.’;

Travelnoun

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

‘With long travel I am stiff and weary.’; ‘His travels ended at his country seat.’;

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.’;

Travelnoun

An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; - often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

Passagenoun

Reception; currency.

Travelnoun

The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

Passagenoun

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

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

Travelnoun

Labor; parturition; travail.

Passagenoun

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

Travelnoun

the act of going from one place to another;

‘he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel’;

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.’;

Travelnoun

a movement through space that changes the location of something

Passagenoun

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

Travelnoun

self-propelled movement

Passagenoun

a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

Travelverb

change location; move, travel, or proceed;

‘How fast does your new car go?’; ‘We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus’; ‘The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect’; ‘The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell’;

Passagenoun

a way through or along which someone or something may pass

Travelverb

undertake a journey or trip

Passagenoun

the passing of a law by a legislative body

Travelverb

make a trip for pleasure

Passagenoun

a journey usually by ship;

‘the outward passage took 10 days’;

Travelverb

travel upon or across;

‘travel the oceans’;

Passagenoun

a short section of a musical composition

Travelverb

undergo transportation as in a vehicle;

‘We travelled North on Rte. 508’;

Passagenoun

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

‘the nasal passages’;

Travelverb

travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Passagenoun

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

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

Travelverb

make a journey, typically of some length

‘we travelled thousands of miles’; ‘the vessel had been travelling from Libya to Ireland’;

Passagenoun

the motion of one object relative to another;

‘stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets’;

Travelverb

journey along (a road) or through (a region)

‘he travelled the world with the army’;

Passagenoun

the act of passing something to another person

Travelverb

go or be moved from place to place

‘a travelling exhibition’;

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’;

Travelverb

withstand a journey without illness or impairment

‘he usually travels well, but he did get a bit upset on a very rough crossing’;

Passagenoun

the action or process of moving forward

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

Travelverb

be successful away from the place of origin

‘accordion music travels well’;

Passagenoun

the right to pass through somewhere

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

Travelverb

(of an object or radiation) move, typically in a constant or predictable way

‘light travels faster than sound’;

Passagenoun

a journey by sea or air

‘I booked a passage on the next ship’;

Travelverb

(of a vehicle) move quickly.

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’;

Travelverb

take more than the allowed number of steps (typically two) while holding the ball without dribbling it.

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’;

Travelnoun

the action of travelling

‘my job involves a lot of travel’;

Passagenoun

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

Travelnoun

journeys, especially abroad

‘perhaps you'll write a book about your travels’;

Passagenoun

the process of transition from one state to another

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

Travelnoun

(of a device) sufficiently compact for use on a journey

‘a travel iron’;

Passagenoun

the passing of a bill into law

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

Travelnoun

the range, rate, or mode of motion of a part of a machine

‘two proximity switches detect when the valve has reached the end of its travel’;

Passagenoun

a short extract from a book or other printed material

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

Travel

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.

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’;

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