English-Dutch translations for passage

• passage
  Ik wil de aandacht op twee passages vestigen. I want to draw attention to two passages.
  Eén passage in dit interview vond ik echter raadselachtig. I found one passage in this interview puzzling, however.
  Ik wil slechts inhaken op één passage uit uw nota. I will dwell only on one passage from your memorandum.
• doorgang
  Ook de vrachtvervoerders hebben recht op doorgang en op dienstverlening. Road haulage contractors have a right of passage and a right to provide a service as well.
  En Turkije moeten wij natuurlijk straffen, omdat zij die illegalen gewoon doorgang verlenen naar Griekenland. We should punish Turkey, of course, for providing illegal immigrants with a passage to Greece.
  Schonere vrachtwagens, de zogenaamde EURO 3 en EURO 4, zijn derhalve niet aan het contingenteringsstelsel onderhevig maar hebben vrije doorgang. Cleaner lorries, the so-called EURO-3 and EURO-4, are therefore not subject to the quota system but have free passage.
• doorvaart
  Tevens wenst Canada het recht om belastingen te heffen op het zeevervoer door een ijsvrije Noordwestelijke Doorvaart. Similarly, Canada wants the right to tax shipping through an ice-free Northwest Passage.
  De Noordwestelijke Doorvaart is een ideale route om tijd, geld en brandstof te besparen en is derhalve beter voor het milieu. The Northwest Passage is an ideal way to save time, money and fuel and benefit the environment.
  Denk daarbij aan mogelijke conflicten over de strategische noordelijke doorvaart tussen Azië en Amerika. Another one is the dispute over the strategic north passage between Asia and America.
• gang
• gangpad
• overgang
  Vandaag doet zich een belangrijke gebeurtenis voor, een overgang naar volwassenheid. What is happening today is an important event, a passage to adulthood.
  Hier zou een overgang van vrede naar oorlog miljoenen levens in gevaar brengen. Here the passage from peace to war would put millions of lives at risk.
• passus
• rijstrook

Definition of passage

• Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry
• A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning
• Part of a path or journey
• An incident or episode
• The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament
• The advance of time
• The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works
• An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide
• The act of passing; movement across or through
• The right to pass from one place to another
• w:Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology
• To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
• To make a #Noun|passage, especially by sea; to cross
• 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
• To execute a passage movement

Examples

• Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
• 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.
• 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.

Related words

• passageway
• passage-toll
• passage grave
• passage at arms
• passage of lines
• Northeast Passage
• Northwest Passage
• rite of passage
• bird of passage