motion vs passage

motion

noun
  • A change of position with respect to time. 

  • A change from one place to another. 

  • A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement. 

  • A state of progression from one place to another. 

  • from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place. 

  • A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant. 

  • A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting. 

  • A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive. 

  • Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. 

  • Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.) 

verb
  • To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure. 

  • To make a proposal; to offer plans. 

  • To gesture indicating a desired movement. 

passage

noun
  • The advance of time. 

  • 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. 

  • A passageway or corridor. 

  • 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 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. 

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. 

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

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