Passage vs Segment - What's the difference?
passage | segment |
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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, 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
A length of some object.
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) A portion.
# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
(label) A portion.
# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
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# (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
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, title= (label) An Ethernet bus.
(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
As nouns the difference between passage and segment
is that passage is ; a leg of a journey while segment is a length of some object.As a verb segment is
to divide into segments or sections.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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English
(wikipedia segment)Noun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment' of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical ' segment was called a reading stone,
- In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992), passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}
