PASSAGE
Definition of PASSAGE
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A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
"She struggled to play the difficult passages."
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Part of a path or journey.
"He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers."
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An incident or episode.
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To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
"After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate."
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To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
"They passaged to America in 1902."
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Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)
"Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train."
Source: Wiktionary