Excavation vs Passage - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
(uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
(countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
Part of a path or journey.
The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
(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:
* 1987 , Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking , Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9,
* 2009 , Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor , Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515,
The act of passing
* 1886 , Pacific medical journal Volume 29
(medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium
(rare) To make a , especially by sea; to cross
(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.
(dressage) To execute a passage movement
* {{quote-book, 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope
, 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
Excavation is a related term of passage.
As nouns the difference between excavation and passage
is that excavation is (uncountable) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass while passage is ; a leg of a journey.excavation
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passage
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Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- passage of scripture
- She struggled to play the difficult passages .
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust,
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- This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage .
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- At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
- 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 makerVerb
(passag)- He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
- After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
- They passaged to America in 1902.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(passag)citation