Passage vs Progress - 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,
* 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
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Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
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An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 124:
* 1887 , (Thomas Hardy), The Woodlanders :
Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
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to improve; to become better or more complete.
To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 266:
Passage is a related term of progress.
As nouns the difference between passage and progress
is that passage is ; a leg of a journey while progress is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.As a verb progress is
to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.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
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English
(wikipedia progress)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .
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- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
- With the king about to go on progress , the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
- Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
- The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
Usage notes
* To make progress'' is often used instead of the verb ''progress''. This allows complex modification of ''progress in ways that can not be well approximated by adverbs modifying the verb. SeeEtymology 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.Verb
(es)- They progress through the museum.
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- Societies progress unevenly.
- Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.