Passage vs Story - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between passage and story

is that passage is a paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning while story is a sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.

As verbs the difference between passage and story

is that passage is to pass a pathogen through a host or medium while story is to tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

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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story

English

Alternative forms

* storie (obsolete), storey

Noun

(stories)

A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.

* Ed. Rev.

Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story

* Sir W. Temple

The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

A lie.

(chiefly, US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.

* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , chapter I:

The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

(obsolete) History.

* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story , that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.

A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

Usage notes

* (soap opera) Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.

Synonyms

* (account) tome * (lie) See * (floor) floor, level * (soap opera) soap opera, serial * narrative

Derived terms

* Banbury story of a cock and a bull * bedtime story * chain story * cock-and-bull story * cover story * end of story * fish story * ghost story * horror story * just-so story * likely story * love story * my stories * shaggy-dog story * short short story * short story * sob story * storiation * story editor * storybook * storyline * story of my life * storyteller * storytelling * success story * tall story * to cut a long story short * war story

Verb

To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

* Shakespeare

How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.

* Bishop Wilkins

It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

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