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.

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

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A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

The navigable part of a river.

We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

The English Channel lies between France and England.

That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.

The news was conveyed to us by different channels .

* Dalton

The veins are converging channels .

* Burke

At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

(nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.

(electronics) A connection between initiating]] and [[terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.

The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

A channel stretches between them.

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

We are using one of the 24 channels .

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xi

TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),

(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.

This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .

(business, marketing) A distribution channel

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.

(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

* 1999 , Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide

Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

* 1999 , Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference

To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.

A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.