All passage synonyms
pasΒ·sage
P p noun passage
- in-coming β coming in; arriving: the incoming tide.
- atrium β An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
- aisle β An aisle is a long narrow gap that people can walk along between rows of seats in a public building such as a church or between rows of shelves in a supermarket.
- dynamics β The branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
- access β If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- anteroom β An anteroom is a small room leading into a larger room.
- movableness β The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- entranceway β A way into a place or thing, esp. a doorway or corridor at the entrance to a building.
- migration β the process or act of migrating.
- hegira β Islam. Hijra.
- course β Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- metanoia β a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- walkout β a strike by workers.
- bypath β a little-used path or track, esp in the country
- foramen β an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- conge β permission to depart or dismissal, esp when formal
- decussation β a decussating or being decussated
- cross-cut β made or used for cutting crosswise.
- elicitation β The act of eliciting; or, an elicited thing.
- move β to pass from one place or position to another.
- anabases β any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- kinetics β the branch of mechanics that deals with the actions of forces in producing or changing the motion of masses.
- operativeness β (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- windpipe β the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.
- flipflop β Alternative form of flip-flop.
- freightage β the transportation of goods.
- raceway β Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
- keyhole β a hole for inserting a key in a lock, especially one in the shape of a circle with a rectangle having a width smaller than the diameter of the circle projecting from the bottom.
- clip β A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
- melioration β Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- confirmation β the act of confirming
- line β a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- haulage β the act or labor of hauling.
- foramina β an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- distillate β the product obtained from the condensation of vapors in distillation.
- anabasis β the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- gate β Archaic. a path; way.
- article β An article is a piece of writing that is published in a newspaper or magazine.
- duct β any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- weir β a small dam in a river or stream.
- lobby β an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- crossing β A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of a sea, river, or lake.
- departure β Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- dynamism β The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- full swing β full operation; greatest activity: For the first time in years the factory was in full swing. The meeting was in full swing when we arrived.
- body english β a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- waterway β a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
- conduit β A conduit is a small tunnel, pipe, or channel through which water or electrical wires go.
- back alley β dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.