aisle vs passage

aisle

noun
  • Any path through an otherwise obstructed space. 

  • Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle. 

  • A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. 

  • A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. 

  • The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymically) marriage. 

  • An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle. 

  • A clear path through rows of seating. 

passage

noun
  • A passageway or corridor. 

  • An incident or episode. 

  • A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. 

  • 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. 

  • A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places. 

  • The act of passing; movement across or through. 

  • Part of a path or journey. 

  • A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. 

  • The right to pass from one place to another. 

  • Serial passage. 

  • A strait or other narrow waterway. 

  • The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. 

  • The advance of time. 

  • The vagina. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. 

verb
  • To execute a passage movement. 

  • To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium. 

  • To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross. 

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