passage

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1. portion, section, part, bit, article; selection, excerpt, extract, {pi.) analects; paragraph, verse, line, sentence, clause, quotation, citation; chapter, column; fascicle, installment, serial, number.

2. phrase, measure, strain, bar; verse, stanza, division; refrain, response, chorus; ornament, cadence, flourish; theme, melody, air, coda.

3. passing, transition, transit, traverse, crossing; movement, progress, growth, motion, going, transportation; conversion, change, becoming, turning into; switch, shift, changeover; assimilation, assumption, naturalization, acclimatization; migration, transmigration, emigration, immigration, deportation.

4. permission, allowance, vouchsafement, authorization; right, privilege, authority, grant, warrant, license; passport, ticket, visa, safe-conduct; freedom, liberty, unconstraint, leave; entry, access, entree, admission.

5. route, course, set, career; trail, path, track, road; channel, canal, conduit, duct, artery, capillary; ditch, furrow, trough, trench, gutter, anfractuosity, Mining. adit; defile, tunnel, channel, ingress, way through; ravine, pass, gully, gulch, crevasse, canyon, narrows; Phys. Geog. col, vale, valley, cwm, cirque; neck, bottleneck, isthmus, spit.

6. hall, corridor, alleyway, alley. See passageway.

7. opening, aperture, hole, orifice; vent, porthole, mouth, spiracle, blowhole; eyelet, eye of a needle, pore; entrance, entry, entree, access, approach; inlet, ingress, intake, way in, Inf. in; exit, outlet, egress, way out, Inf. out, gangplank.

8. voyage, trip, journey; crossing, cruise, sail, steam, run.

9. lapse, passing, expiration; flow, course, current, stream; drift, career, sweep, flux, tide, flight; progress, progression, march, step, advance; continuity, continuance, extension; period, space, stage, spell, duration.

10. enactment, ratification, legislation, establishment, constitutionalization; legalization, validation, legitimation; sanction, approval, approbation, acceptance, adoption, endorsement; ordainment, fixing, prescription.

11. interchange, exchange, give and take, intercourse, interplay, reciprocity; transaction, trading, traffic, trafficking, commerce; correspondence, communication, connection, liaison, union, congress; discussion, negotiation, interlocution, dialogue, colloquy, Sl. rapping.

12. transmission, transfer, transmittal, transference, Pathol. metastasis; transposition, transposal, transplantation, translocation, metathesis.