Passage vs Narrows - What's the difference?

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Passage is a related term of narrows.

As nouns the difference between passage and narrows

is that passage is ; a leg of a journey while narrows is a narrow part of a navigable waterway.

As a verb narrows is

(narrow).

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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narrows

English

Verb

(head)

(narrow)

Noun

(-)

A narrow part of a navigable waterway.

narrow

English

Adjective

(er)

Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

* Bishop Wilkins

The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.

(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.

Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.

a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views

* Macaulay

a narrow understanding

Having a small margin or degree.

The Republicans won by a narrow majority.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs

, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.}}

(dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.

narrow circumstances

Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

* Smalridge

a very narrow and stinted charity

Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.

* Milton

But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.

(phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

Antonyms

* wide * broad

Derived terms

* narrowboat, narrow boat * narrow-minded * narrowness

Verb

(en verb)

To reduce in width or extent; to contract.

We need to narrow the search.

To get narrower.

The road narrows .

(knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

Synonyms

* taper

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

the Narrows of New York harbor

* Gladstone

Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .

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