Passage vs Method - What's the difference?
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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,
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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
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A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
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(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
(slang) Marijuana.
Passage is a related term of method.
As nouns the difference between passage and method
is that passage is ; a leg of a journey while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):.passage
English
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
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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
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An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close