passage

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

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n. channel (see passage); voyage, journey; excerpt, phrase, movement, etc.; enactment, pass-ing; lapse. See progression, travel, navigation, part.

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Means of passing

Nouns

1. (passing through) passage, transmission; permeation; penetration; interpenetration; transudation, infiltration; osmosis, endosmosis, ex-osmosis; intercurrence; access, ingress, egress.

2. (vehicle passage) passageway, road, highway, thoroughfare, boulevard, avenue, street; byway, lane, pike, alley[way], trail; high road, the King's highway; roadway; turnpike, tollroad, tollway, skyway, speedway, thruway, expressway, interstate [highway], freeway, Autobahn, autoroute, autostrada, parkway, superhighway, dual or divided highway, limited-access highway; artery; beltway, ring road, bypass; cross, through, oneway, or stop street; back or side street, by-street, camino, carriageway, causeway; corniche, court, crescent; switchback, post road; cul-de-sac, dead end, driveway, frontage or service road; mew. Informal, main drag. See transportation.

3. (walking passage) esplanade, arcade, corridor, concourse, hall[way], way, aisle.

4. channel, gate, opening; way, path, footpath, thoroughfare; tube, pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gutter, fistula; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; chute, artery; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery, alley, aisle.

Verbs — pass [through]; perforate, penetrate, permeate, tread, enfilade; go through or across; go over, pass by, bypass, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; work or make one's way through; thread or worm one's way through; force one's way; find a way; transmit, make way; clear the course or track; traverse, go over ground.

Adjectives — passing, elapsing, progressive; intercurrent; transient, portable, assignable, movable.

Adverbs — in passing, en passant, in transit, under way.

Quotations — Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rosegarden (T. S. Eliot).

Antonyms, see inactivity, closure.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A journey]

Syn. voyage, crossing, trek; see journey .

2. [A passageway]

Syn. way, exit, entrance, corridor, tunnel; see also hall 2 .

3. [A reading]

Syn. section, portion, paragraph; see reading 3 .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. access path, course, corridor, hall, thoroughfare, way, door, exit, entrance, passageway, route, channel.

2. excerpt section, extract, quotation, portion, selection, sentence, paragraph, verse, page, chapter.

3. progressionpassing, movement, advance, transit, trip.

4. enactment acceptance, adoption, legislation, legalization, ratification.

ANT.: 3. obstruction, stoppage, blockage. 4. veto, defeat

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The process or an instance of passing from one form, state, or stage to another: change, shift, transit, transition. See CHANGE. 2. A particular subdivision of a written work: part, section, segment. See PART.