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Caravan vs Passage - What's the difference?

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Caravan is a related term of passage.


As nouns the difference between caravan and passage

is that caravan is a convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert while passage is ; a leg of a journey.

As a verb caravan

is to travel in a caravan (procession).

caravan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
  • * 1846 , ,
    • To the left the caravan animals, securely picketed, at regular distances of some fifteen yards apart, occupied an area of several acres.
  • * 1888 , ,
    • “Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!” grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been feloniously diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazar. “Ohé, priest, whence come you and whither do you go?”
  • * 1897 , , Chapter 21,
    • Camel caravans , and courageous teamsters opened regular carrying businesses between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, while coaches began to run over the desert.
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
  • * 2006 , Roger Cross, Avon Hudson, Beyond Belief: The British Bomb Tests: Australia's Veterans Speak Out , page 92,
    • The caravans' were the demarcation between the non-radioactive areas and the radioactive areas. There were two main '''caravans''', one for people going into the forward area, and the other ' caravan was for people returning.
  • * 2009 , Chris Cleave, Incendiary , unnumbered page,
    • The best thing about caravans' is that they're always exactly the same, said Terence Butcher. You can tow your ' caravan to Brighton or Bournemouth or Bognor. Doesn?t make the blindest bit of difference. When you close the door behind you at the end of the day you?re home.
  • * 2010 , Jo Nesbo, Nemesis , page 357,
    • At the end of the car park were three caravans .

    Derived terms

    * caravan park, caravan site * caravaneer

    Related terms

    * caravanserai, caravansary * van

    Synonyms

    * (convoy or procession of travelers) camel train, convoy, wagon train * (furnished vehicle used as a dwelling) (US): camper, mobile home, motor home, recreational vehicle, trailer, travel trailer

    Verb

  • To travel in a caravan (procession).
    • The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
  • * 1957 , , Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California , Volume 1, page 92,
    • The provisions of the Vehicle Code covering caravaning of vehicles have been clarified to expedite this type of operation and still result in the proper observance of the objectives of that law.
  • * 1984 , Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts , Volume 12, page 73,
    • Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew (Suncus murinus ) with particular reference to its developmental aspects.
  • * 2007 , Stanley Bennett Clay, Looker , page 89,
    • Brando, Dee, Omar, Jeanette, and Clymenthia caravanned up to the La Brea summit and down Overhill Drive, just past Slauson Avenue, to La Louisianne for drinks and a late-night snack.
  • (UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
    • When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning .
  • * 1932', Walter Meade, '''''Caravanning'' , Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, ''The Cecil Aldin Book , page 55,
    • It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.
  • * 1986 , James Wilson Brown, Shirley N. Brown, Before You Go To Great Britain: A Resource Directory and Planning Guide , page 94,
    • British interest in camping and caravaning has recently increased considerably — so much so that today, camp parks are available in all parts of the country.
  • * 2002 , Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car , page 181,
    • Norm writes, ‘My wife and I did a lot of caravaning and it certainly didn?t pull the car out of shape, although lots of people thought it would!’

    Derived terms

    * caravanner

    External links

    * "caravan"], entry in [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

    passage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
    • passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages .
  • Part of a path or journey.
    • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  • 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.
  • (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  • A passageway or corridor.
  • (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  • (euphemistic) The vagina.
  • * 1986 , Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time , New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:
    • With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust,
  • * 1987 , Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking , Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53:
    • This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage .
  • * 2009 , Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor , Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249:
    • At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
  • The act of passing
  • * 1886 , Pacific medical journal Volume 29
    • He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
    Derived terms
    * rite of passage * passagemaker * passage maker

    Verb

    (passag)
  • (medicine) To pass a pathogen 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.
  • (rare) To make a , especially by sea; to cross
    • They passaged to America in 1902.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (passag)
  • (dressage) To execute a passage movement
  • * {{quote-book, 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope citation
    • , passage=After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash

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